Wow, you sure have made up for your absence! Your photos and accompanying dialog are just fantastic. Thank you for the beautiful tour. I almost felt as I was there.

I will read all the detail later today, for I have to get ready for work in a few minutes. I want to read ALL of it, when I can take my time.

Merci!

Diekirch Museum

After Tintange we followed the tracks of FJR 15 to Harlange, Tarchamps and Docols back to Diekirch. In Diekirch we visited, in my opinion the best museum dealing with Battle of the Bulge.

On of my favourite dioramas is the great 1:1 scene of the Sauer crossing which took place on January 18, 1945 by trrops of the 5th US Inf Div.

This diorama of a foxhole for a .30 cal 1919 A4 Browning machine gun crew in snowbound terrain, has been reconstructed exactly to match the original U.S. Army Signal Corps' picture, which is also on display in the museum. One of the soldiers shown in both diorama and picture is still alive and autographed the picture. Together with his 2 buddies (one of whom was taking some rest in an improvised shelter underneath the blankets in the background, the moment the picture was taken in January 1945 near the village of Harlange in the 35th U.S. Infantry Division sector), he stayed 6 days in this static defensive position at sub-zero F temperatures with no hot food. All three troopers of the 35th U.S. Infantry Division survived the white jungle of the "Battle of the Bulge." To them is was probably the first real snow in their young lives, as they were all three from Southern California. One's name is Roy Lockwood.

Well thats abou it. Have fun and I will post some more on the Normandy tour

Regards

Juerg

Terrific dioramas. Someone put a lot of work into those. Very realistic. So much so it makes me shiver.

Once again, thank you for that tour of the Southern Flank.