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Message to the Visitors

If some of you are asking themself to understand what I am doing with these Order of Battle, here are the informations.
I am mounting the skeleton of the website pouring the military units as Categories and the cities where these units passed trough as Tags. You will then see ion some months that the whole [...]

5Sep2008 | Snafu | 0 comments | Continued

Liège in the line of Marche (Part 2)

Monsieur S. came home today laden down with bags of gold like Ali Baba. How he is going to do away with it so that the ferret eyes of the enemy will not spy it out, is a problem to me. And I do not want it explained for I am sure I should look [...]

2Sep2008 | Snafu | 0 comments | Continued

Movies : The Battle of San Pietro 1943-1944

Full version, presented by General Marck W. Clarck, CO US 5th Army, produced by John Huston for the War Department, this Movie is a must see and still one of the best ever made for the WD.

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24Aug2008 | Snafu | 1 comment | Continued

German Plane Recovered 60 years after the crash !

Large Image
Voilà une image et quelques autres (lien) juste pour prouver aux inconscients qui pensent encore que la recherche sur le terrain ne signifie que ramassage de vieux fers voir même collecte d’explosif (quand les mêmes inconscients sont en plus débiles), alors qu’en fait c’est ce qui permet aux principaux musées de la planète de [...]

24Aug2008 | Snafu | 0 comments | Continued

99th Cav. Recon. Trp, 99th Inf. Div. 40-45 (open)

This file has to be corrected and competed. If you have informations to help me to do this work post a comment or send me an email and I will rework the listing until it is complete and exhaustive. I am searching on my side to find every information available but every help will be [...]

24Aug2008 | Snafu | 0 comments | Continued

1940-1945-Lockheed P-38 Lightning-Serials (Processing)

Bien que ce dossier ne donne pas vraiment d’informations sur les appareils il permet cependant d’autoriser le point d’attaque pour une éventuelle rechèrche plus approfondie. Après tout, il faut bien commencer quelque part.

17Aug2008 | Snafu | 0 comments | Continued

The Sky over Dora - Nordhausen - 08-2008 (processed)

I was there this week and will be there again next week. I will try to get some other photos from the area.

[gallery] 16Aug2008 | Snafu | 0 comments | Continued

Liège on the Line on March 1914 (Part 1) (processed)

Liège on the Line of March, an American Girl’s experiences when the Germans came trough Belgium at the beginning of World War One.
Glenna Lindsey Bigelow
New York - John Lane Company
London - John Lane, The Bodley Head / MCMXVIII

To the King of the Belgians

Multitudes upon multitudes they throng
And thicken : who shall number their array ?
They [...]

10Aug2008 | Snafu | 0 comments | Continued

AAF Airfields (FR-BE-NL-LU-DE-AU-CZ)(processed)

After the landing in Normandy, followed by some weeks later with the landing in the Provence (Sourth France), the US Army Air Force started to move ahead it’s Airfield to reduce the fly distances between the bombing targets assigned in France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany and the home’s Airfields.
This started with the North part of [...]

10Aug2008 | Snafu | 1 comment | Continued

Update #103 (+300 images US Army Troops) (Processed

I have updated the US Army 1940-1945 Photos Galleries. Please remember that I am only cleaning over 1200 gigas Images from the Computer. Images can be seen 2 times 3 times and even 6 times. I am only setting the gallleries up and I will sort the pictures later.

9Aug2008 | Snafu | 0 comments | Continued

Oranieburg-Sachenhausen (+) (processed)

I was there this week. This is a strange area and I had a strange feeling while driving trough the two little cities : Oranienburg and Sachenhausen, especially while going on the Sachenhausenstrasse in Oranienburg (the Todesmarch road’s). Outside the cities I saw many road’s signs : “MassenGrab” !
Here are a few photos of the [...]

9Aug2008 | Snafu | 0 comments | Continued

In Plain English, it means : Go to Hell ! (Harper)

On the 22nd of December 1944, when the division was and had been totally surrounded by the Germans, the intelligence officer and I decided that we had to take this to General McAuliffe. We first took it to the chief of staff, and the three of us, and Colonel Harper then went in, woke up [...]

30Jul2008 | Snafu | 0 comments | Continued

Our Canadian Liberators in France

Photo prise d’un étage d’une maison rue de Bayeux à Creully. De nombreux véhicules dont une ambulance Humber au premier plan, des civils et des militaires, un drapeau français sur une façade à gauche. Creully a été libérée le 6 juin par les canadiens débarqués sur Juno mais des troupes britanniques débarquées sur Gold y [...]

27Jul2008 | Snafu | 0 comments | Continued

7 Daypix : France 1944 (processed)

Un convoi des Field Artillery de l’US Army passe sur la rue des Casinos et le pont du lac à Bagnoles de l’Orne en direction Domfront. Le lac est en partie visible à droite de la photo.
Les tracteurs d’artillerie sont des Mack NO de 7,5t 6×6 Prime Mover truck, qui servent dans les Field Artillery [...]

26Jul2008 | Snafu | 0 comments | Continued

Scrapper and Collectors ! (processed)

Imaginez un peu que l’on vous donne une rallonge électrique, une disqueuse et 100 disques pour métaux et que l’on vous autorise à “chipoter” pendant 8 heures full time dans le dépôt dont les images se trouvent ci dessous !
Think about this : you get electricity, a metal trend machine with 100 disks and 8 [...]

24Jul2008 | Snafu | 0 comments | Continued

Images Archives : lets go ! (processing)

Here we go again with the pictures. I’ve been trying for days and days to find a good script to presente the photos and documents I have to put online and I didn’t find anything easyer as the script I am using for years.
The same problem remains : photos captions. I will have to find [...]

19Jul2008 | Snafu | 0 comments | Continued