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Thanks Allan - post #29 I tweaked them a bit - post #28 - (they might have been a bit too long for a simple text copy and paste to cope - as it...

There's a link here to some forgotten airfields in Europe - I've linked this just to Bazenville (B2) - but there are a good few others that are...

Been looking through these all:...

Thanks Allan, Bazenville / Brazenville (Sean et. al. any idea which is best??? - Bazenvile I think is "French" - Brazenville perhaps the version...

Hi Pat, Sean, Alan, Back around D-day + 1 the 24th L headed straight from Gold Beach for Bazenville and then Martragny and both of these later...

Wow, That really seems like something. I'm a bit loath to risk Pat saying "we are drifting a bit off of his thread for Mont Picon - so I was...

No probs and no rush there at all. I didn't even know that there was an airfield built there until today so it was an interesting surprise....

Hi Pat, And thanks. That's exactly where i would have assumed it would be, from the lie of the land. (There never seems to be enough runway at...

Mont Pincon and other engagements near or thereabouts features in a number of the newsletter issues of the Creully Club (from the 4/7th RDG)...

I think that the wiki ref just goes straight to the middle of the village - so I did wonder if that was where they were meant to land their...

I've seen a lot of "old" bridges removed because they just don't suit "normal traffic needs of the 20th/21st centuries", but in Normandy you have...

Hi Allan, Tried to pick out the likely site for the base at Lingeves on here:...

The SRY got a battle honour for Mont Pincon - so at first I expected them to have parked their tanks there (With a big British flag like the US...

I've been enjoying following this with an armoured focus in : The short history of the 8th Armoured Brigade...

Does anyone know about the facilities at Hervieu nr. Chouain - where apparently the 24th L spend a lot of their "rest" time during their stays...

This is a further addition to the "tale of the battle" around Vernon: http://www.worcestershireregiment.com/wr.php?main=inc/h_vernon Which I am...

Yes, This one at least: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205206279 Sherman tanks crossing a Bailey bridge over the Seine at...

I think the point about "spies" was well put ;-) Never quite sure who all these symbols were actually for. The driver could see little and the...

Thanks Allan, Rather a lot of very impressive finds! I particularly liked: http://www3.sympatico.ca/angels_eight/campaign.html As it was...

"C" squad SRY had a "very nice" write up for the Noireau crossing and the action towards Berjou. Crossing Noireau; "C" squadron SRY moved across...