Normandy.

[Danelaw 208]

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/d-day-landing-sites-then-now-normandy-beaches-1944-70-years-later-1450286

[Peckris 579]

Amazing comparison shots. Only the two roofs and the mini-spire show it's the same location.

[Flash 23]

Humbling - My Grandad landed at Gold

[Colin G. 147]

Another set of fascinating photos, showing battle sites today

http://io9.com/sobering-images-show-famous-world-war-i-battle-sites-a-1581624280

[Peter 615]

In 1995 we toured Normandy.A humbling but rewarding break.

I would like to go to some WW1 sites.

We were in Arras in the 90's and I remember a restaurant which had a sign saying English and Canadians especially welcome.

[Gary1000 41]

I've not visited any of the European WWII battle sites but I remember standing out side the church when I got married reading a km marker commemorating the route of the Bataan death march. Some years later we visited Mt Samat which is the sort of starting point of the death march where there is a small museum. Very sobbering to look at some of the exhibits.

[RLC35 288]

I've not visited any of the European WWII battle sites but I remember standing out side the church when I got married reading a km marker commemorating the route of the Bataan death march. Some years later we visited Mt Samat which is the sort of starting point of the death march where there is a small museum. Very sobbering to look at some of the exhibits.

Gov. Edger Whitcomb of Indiana, survived the death march at Bataan. General McArthur on the other hand, left with his family, in the dead of the night, just prior to the U.S. Garrison falling to the Japanese.

Edited June 4, 2014 by RLC35

[Peter 615]

I believe I owe a lot to a lot of people.

A Contract I worked on a few years back was a Flying Fortress site.I walked in the wood near by where US crew had left graffiti on trees.Empty bottles of booze also.

Rougham....bloody thank you boys.

Our wonderful council are now going to put a model B52 on a close roundabout.

About time too.

[azda 979]

I visited Dachau concemtration camp, that was spine chilling. Dachau was the model for all other camps, seeing where the ovens were located gave me goosebumps.

Just about a km away was the SS firing range in which they used 4000 Russian POWs as live targets. I may, if no one objects, go back and take some pictures for you all, when o have a little time, its something which i think should be seen IMO so that we never forget what happened in these camps and never forget the sacrifices of so many.

Edited June 5, 2014 by azda

[davidrj 194]

so that we never forget what happened in these camps and never forget the sacrifices of so many.

Quite! unfortunately we as a species don't learn from history. I was in Kosovo in late 2001, and I have chilling memories of the still fresh mass graves on the hillsides

[scott 144]

I have only been to Pearl Harbour, and Hiroshima

[AardHawk 73]

P47.

[RLC35 288]

Humbling - My Grandad landed at Gold

My wife's Uncle Frank, landed on Omaha Beach, with the U.S. Army Infantry, to begin the liberation of France!

[Peter 615]

The British/North American sites were gut butting but also the German/Italian sites.

We all get on well(apart from football)

Next time toss a two headed coin.