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    lach470

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    1. Ask and you shall receive! :P

      Here is the longues battery...it covered Gold, Juno and Omaha beaches. The guns were 150mm Czech made puppies.

      These weren't captured until June 7 but they were silenced on June 6 but the HMS Ajax. It was neat to see! Once was completely destroyed and the others still had their guns intact but with damage over head to the bunkers. If you look closely at the shield on one of the guns...it looks like it took a blast from behind.

      Cheers....Sorry: I don't have any period pics of these guns....but if anyone does, I'd LOVE to see 'em.

      Rob

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    2. Here's a pic taken last week of the same house. You'd have no idea today just what happened here. It's so EERIE. I loved standing there, trying to imagine what happened there 62 years ago.

      We continued driving down the road into Chambois and Trun where the gap was finally closed. When all was said and done, about 10 000 Germans died here......you'd have no idea today of the death and destruction that was so prevelant not too long ago.

      I really enjoyed the trip! It's something I encourage you to all try to accomplish!

      Hope you liked the pics!

      Cheers...

      Rob

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    3. Here's my last one.....This is off the beaches towards Falaise. It is Saint-Lambert sur Dives where Major Dave Currie won the Victoria Cross. Just down the road was the last bridge the Germans could use to cross the Dives river when retreating from the Falaise pocket. This was in Chambois just down the road from where these pics were taken.

      The Germans fought hard to keep this open and only surrendered after taking heavy casualties!

      The Falaise gap was closed soon after this.

      You can see David Currie speaking to a member of the French resistance as the Germans are coming up to surrender.

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