NEW THIS WEEK – MONDAY 18 OCTOBER 2010

Welcome to this week’s newsletter of what’s new on Miliblog. Well we have some more lovely additions to our Normandy Collection which feature original photos back in 1944. Don’t forget, if you click on any of the sample photos shown below, they will enlarge so you will be able to see all the detail. 

Our first sample this week shows a US Technical Sergeant talking with two WAC’s under some trees.

Normandy Collection No 801

 Next is a nice photo of aconvoy of jeeps passing a GMC truck. Click on the photo to enlarge and you will see that the jeeps have a metal upright pole attached to their front bumper. The enemy often used to string wire across the roads in Normandy and any jeep driver with the windscreens down on the jeeps had their heads chopped off. So these anti-decapitation devices were welded onto the front bumper. Crude, but very effective, often using pieces of metal from the anti-landing devices on the Normandy beaches.  

Normandy Collection No 811

An unusual photo next, with either part of Mulberry or a Rhino ferry being used to load German POW’s onto a ship to take them to England and then probably onto the USA.  

Normandy Collection No 823

 Next we have some GI’s enjoying a beer at a French cafe.

Normandy Collection No 837

Finally we have some US engineer’s building a forward airbase for the USAAF, ready to take some P-47 Thunderbolts to provide aircover for the forward troops.

Normandy Collection No 845

So we hope you continue to enjoy all the photos we have on Miliblog. If you have any comments or have any photos to share with us all, then please email us on info@miliblog.co.uk

Cheerio !

Simon