As some of you might know I'm working on a project about Noville , Bastogne .

I'm stil looking for some photos from the 704 and 705 TDB.

Especially pics of the 704 TD taken on dec 17-18th 1944 when they came to support he 10th Armored in Noville to hold position and knocked out about 12 enemy tanks . 12 out of 32 ....

I guess Erwin is the person I need ...

Reg

The idea of adopting graves of the American liberators started in February 1945, at which time a citizens' committee, "Burger Comite Margraten," launched a campaign to promote the adoption of the graves. The adoptors were expected to visit the grave, maintain it and lay flowers. Communication with the surviving relatives was also encouraged. By the second Memorial Day (1946) all of the 18,764 graves had been adopted, and over the past 62 yrs the care of the graves has been past down from generation to generation, They care for the grave by visiting that grave regularly and placing flowers on the grave each week in rememberance of the brave young men who gave their lives in helping to free this small country from the hands of Hitler's death grip.

In 2002, the work of the cemetery committee was taken over by the Association for Adopting Graves at the American Cemetery of Margraten. The Association is continuing the work of the commitee and keeping the adoption registry updated.

Stichting Adoptie Graven Amerikaanse Begraafplaats Margraten

(Foundation for Adopting Graves at the American Cemetery)

Postbus 22, 6269 ZG Margraten, The Netherlands

E-mail: st.adoptie.graven@margraten.nl

1944 : Germans launch V-1 rocket attack against Britain

On this day in 1944, Germany launches 10 of its new V1 rockets against Britain from a position near the Channel coast. They prove to be less than devastating.

Mired in the planning stages for a year, the V1 was a pilotless, jet-propelled plane that flew by air-driven gyroscope and magnetic compass, capable of unleashing a ton of cruise missile explosives. Unfortunately for the Germans, the detonation process was rather clumsy and imprecise, depending on the impact of the plane as the engine quit and the craft crash-landed. They often missed their targets.

This was certainly the case against Britain. Of the 10 V1, or Reprisal 1, "flying bombs" shot at England, five crashed near the launch site, and one was lost altogether-just four landed inside the target country. Only one managed to take any lives: Six people were killed in London. The Germans had hoped to also mount a more conventional bombing raid against Britain at the same time the V1s were hitting their targets-in the interest of heightening the "terror" effect. This too blew up in their faces, as the Brits destroyed the German bombers on the ground the day before as part of a raid on German airfields.

Quite funny (in my opinion):

Erwin

one of the best French films of these last twenty years ( even more).

Poignant history of a sweet, good man, opposite to the violence

which the moral suffering is going to transform into merciless upholder of the law.

Philippe Noiret's masterful interpretation.

A movie representing the terror of war in marvel across the massacre of a small community.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjIos1y2bjA

Click on the link below:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_vieux_fusil

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