Vee and Bas, thank you both very much for the pictures you took.

I hope you do not mind me saving them for my personal files?

I sure wish I could have been there, but there were other things that needed my attention.

Maybe next year, I'll go have a look myself.

So much has changed apparently.

If you look at the photo of Charlie Beach (with the white marker in the foreground), about halfway up the cliffs or bluffs, you can see a German concrete gun position.

Well, my buddy Mike and his group climbed the bluffs behind that bunker and attacked these positions from the rear.

I was there several years ago (the "German villa" was still there) and - although not Pointe-du-Hoc - it sure is a heck of a climb!

Erwin

Vee and Bas, thank you both very much for the pictures you took.

I hope you do not mind me saving them for my personal files?

 

I sure wish I could have been there, but there were other things that needed my attention.

Maybe next year, I'll go have a look myself.

So much has changed apparently.

 

If you look at the photo of Charlie Beach (with the white marker in the foreground), about halfway up the cliffs or bluffs, you can see a German concrete gun position.

Well, my buddy Mike and his group climbed the bluffs behind that bunker and attacked these positions from the rear.

I was there several years ago (the "German villa" was still there) and - although not Pointe-du-Hoc - it sure is a heck of a climb!

 

Erwin

Hi Erwin ,

I am happy that you like the photos !!

I have found

Some archive images on the bunker H 677 for anti-tank gun of 8.8 cm Pak 41/43 from the beach of Vierville in June 1944:

I do not know if you're interested ?

Vee

Thank you, they make very nice "then & now" pictures.

Erwin

hi erwin i am happy that you like the picture

here a video whith the GMC truck on omaha beach

me onthe front of the GMC

best regards bas timmers

You can find my pictures on my facebook account. If you aren't a friend of me there just add me.

Regards,

Frank

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=155...94&v=photos

Bas:

Was nice seeing a tribute to the 5th Engineer Special Brigade!

thank you

i think we where the only one

people asking us who we are , they never seen it

it was nice to do it

regards bas timmers

I've added photos and documents to Howard Huebner's page (82nd Airborne). And you can check it out here:

http://www.6thcorpscombatengineers.com/HowardHuebner.htm

The following is on his page, but wanted to post it here too:

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OrlandoSentinel.com

Leesburg vet paying respects in Normandy

June 6, 2009

Sixty-five years ago today, Howard Huebner of Leesburg parachuted into a French field on D-Day.

Today, the 86-year-old Army veteran will be back in France and will relive his World War II experiences during ceremonies marking the pivotal invasion.

President Barack Obama is expected to be at the ceremony at Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial in Colleville-sur-Mer (above). Huebner (right), who traveled across the Atlantic with his wife, daughter and teenage grandson, plans to join fellow veterans and paratroopers at the ceremony.

Huebner's son, Roger Huebner of DeLand, said Thursday that he heard from his father this week.

"He was doing great," Roger Huebner said. "He's really enjoying himself."

The elder Huebner had already visited the Netherlands and Belgium and this week planned to stay in northern France.

"It's really quite a experience for him," Roger Huebner said.

The visit marks Huebner's fifth trip to France since the war ended.

In a story last month in the Orlando Sentinel, Huebner recalled how numerous Allied soldiers were shot as they landed: "Some of them got caught up in the trees, and the Germans shot at them. 'Pow, pow, pow.' Like that."

Recent research by the U.S. National D-Day Memorial Foundation placed the number of American D-Day fatalities at 2,499 and those from other Allied nations at 1,915.

Sentinel staff report

Copyright © 2009, Orlando Sentinel

Jim H supplied this superb link. Check it out!

http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2009/...rmandy-beaches/

A US veteran takes pictures of German soldiers tombs during a commemoration ceremony on June 5, 2009 at the German Military Cemetery of La Cambe, Normandy. Preparations are underway for the upcoming D-Day celebrations to mark the 65th anniversary of the June 6, 1944 allied landings in France, then occupied by Nazi Germany. US President Barack Obama is to lead commemorations attended by thousands of Americans on June 6 at the ceremony above Omaha Beach, where more than 9,000 US troops fought and died in June 1944. (JOEL SAGET/AFP/Getty Images)

this is not a vetran but this is our sjaakie its our cook and yes he is a old men

his patch is 104th inf. division ,timberwolves

www.timberwolves.nl

regards bas timmers