Hi,

I am putting together a new show for the 29th August to 1st September 2014.

The show will be called Saar offensive, Somerset 2014.

The show is just outside Crewkerne, Somerset.

The show will be for WW2 reenactors as well as for military vehicles from the same era.

We are looking a 4x4 driving challenge, and there will be battles taking place within a 10 acre wood.

There is toilets, showers and a beer tent.

If you wish to know more please email back.

We would like you to come along and spread the word.

Thank you.

Best wishes,

Shaun Bradley

So yesterday was the anniversary of the Normandy Overlord landings. I'm glad to see there was a fair amount of coverage on the online news sources. Perhaps not as much as Michael Jackson's daughter (had to hear about that on the Limbaugh show - I didn't even know who it was), but still it was there. Time has a way of blunting our desire to remember things and I'm afraid that will happen soon for WWII - if we're not there already. For example, Civil War remembrances happen maybe once a year for Gettysburg, but that's about it. I'm sure that there were many observances for the Mexican-American War or Spanish-American War, too (Remember the Maine, anyone?) Now those conflicts where Americans fought and died are mostly forgotten. Currently there are WWII vets amongst us, but that will not always be the case. It just makes me worried. How many people in America know who won this or that "reality" TV event but have no idea what this D-Day thing is all about. Somethin' about some war or somethin', right? I'm not even asking people to know anything about the Mediterranean theater or anything crazy like that! Or that there were more than 2 battles with the Japanese (if they could name that many). It just makes me wonder what the hell people are learning in 12 years of history instead of formative moments in US history and transformative events in world history. I choose, here, not to speculate.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARNE.

Colin.

On visiting an Italian/American diner in Swindon, SW UK I saw a number of old photographs on the wall. This one was directly behind me and I cound'nt resist taking a pic on my iPhone. I would be interested if someone could identify the unit this soldier belonged to.

Colin.

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or last year

I hope this the proper Forum for this photo?.

I just visited the gallery again, section Engineer bridges-Germany, and thought I know the place of the first photos. Here a photo of last summer with our rescue exercise on the Rhine, between Bad Honnef and Rolandseck. The place of the bridge was later prepared for military crossings of the river, so-called "NATO ramps".

Christoph

Edit: Pictures 31 and 32 are showing the same Bridge from the west bank of the Rhine. Here they use the ferry ramp, not the later NATO ramp 50m to the left.

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