France has put in a request for the D-Day landing beaches at Normandy to be listed as a Unesco World Heritage site. This was announced by the ministry of Culture this week. The candidacy will be evaluated by Unesco in … Continue reading →
I haven’t posted anything since June. In the meantime a lot of material has been gathering here to write about. For starters my annual pictures of Wings & Wheels. I think this is the 9th time my son and I … Continue reading →
This Sunday, the Daily Mail published some newly discovered photos that really bring home the cold winter of 1944-45 in the Belgian Ardennes. Some are color photos, but all reveal details that we as collectors, re-enactors and modellers find interesting. … Continue reading →
In May I visited Bastogne for a weekend with my son. We revisited the Bastogne Historical Center which has been completely transformed into the Bastogne War Museum. It has been enlarged and the collection pieces have changed. Some of the … Continue reading →
I was a little late planning a trip to Bastogne to visit the museums and sights there. Luckily, I stumbled upon the “Santa Fe” B&B of Marc Reyter at Lutrebois, a village just South of Bastogne. Marc is a young … Continue reading →
This question has ended my article about jump wings for a long time. Recently I was contacted by Joe Weingarten who was able to shed some light on this. The US Army changed to clutch back in late 1944 for … Continue reading →
Canadian army major Claude Villeneuve sent me some pictures of himself during the D-Day celebration at Siffleur Falls in the Canadian Rockies on 6 June 2015. The gentleman on his right jumped 20 minutes past Midnight on 6 June 1944 … Continue reading →
This Sunday we visited a small airshow at the glider airfield at nearby Geraardsbergen / Overboelare including some nice USAAF oldtimer planes and a WW2 re-enactment display. View photo album
Continue reading →I got this dvd from eBay recently and I enjoyed it a lot. It’s an old TV movie from 1986 and quite unknown compared to the legendary Patton movie from 1970, although George C. Scott plays general Patton in both. … Continue reading →
With his Rescued Film Project, the American photographer Levi Bettweiser recently got his hands on 31 undeveloped rolls of film with photos made by the same soldier during WW2. He developed them and we can now be the first people … Continue reading →