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Post by pieter on Jun 9, 2023 14:11:55 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Jun 9, 2023 14:21:36 GMT -7
The same old man decades earlier as a young man during the D-day landings of the Americans German MG 42 machine gun bunker at Omaha Beach (Normandy, France - 1944) A German MG34 medium machine gun emplacement. A German machine-gun post on the Atlantic Wall. German machine gun aimed at advancing U.S. Airborne Paratroopers in Sainte-Mère-Église, a commune in the northwestern French department of Manche, in Normandy. The town played a significant part in the World War II Normandy landings because of its postion in the middle of route N13, which the Germans would have used on any counterattack on the troops landing on Utah and Omaha Beaches. In the early morning of 6 June 1944 mixed units of the U.S. 82nd Airborne and U.S. 101st Airborne Divisions occupied the town in Mission Boston, making it one of the first towns liberated in the invasion.
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Post by pieter on Jun 9, 2023 14:26:15 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Jun 9, 2023 14:28:58 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Jun 9, 2023 14:36:09 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Jun 9, 2023 14:42:24 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Jun 9, 2023 14:44:24 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Jun 9, 2023 14:47:00 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Jun 9, 2023 14:50:31 GMT -7
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