If you could watch ANY battle ?

I would have loved to be at Omaha Beach on June 5th! To see the Artillery postitions and Bunkers unharmed would be a hell of a sight But after i see the Beach, ill join Rommel in the car ride out of Normandy

 

Waterloo from about 2,000 feet up. would have been really interesting esepcially the last part of the Battle where the Prussians turned the French rear and the French that were sent out trying to close but then retreating......still and odd battle. The French cavalry charges would of been somthing to see with the British/German resistance in the squares.

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Sevastopol. The seige mortars and railway guns hammering the Russian fortress'.

 

Framert good choice ! My son is visiting the area this summer and taking the little camera along with him. Hopeful there is still something left in the area to photograph

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Erich. You happen to know any books [photographs mainly] on the seige? I looked at bookfinders and amazon yesterday w/o much luck. To be sure, there must still be a couple pillboxes etc. there today. Your son speaks Russian?

 

Just watch of Typhoons!

Rommel lost an eye while 'safely' touring Normandy in his staff-car...

 

Ouch
Well actually i meant his ride coming out of Normandy on june 5th, when he went to attend his wifes Birthday

 

I would have liked to see the firebombing done on Japan (w/o the incinerating heat interfering with my body).

 

Then again, even though it would be VERY educational, would you really want to be looking over a battlefield watching many men die, while you was just up there having fun? Personally, I don't wanna watch motar shells land on top of people, phosphorus digging through skin, people screming in agony etc..

 

Do you mind if I add my thoughts here? As many of you know, I took part in nearly all the battles in Normandy onwards, until I left them on the German borders on the river Maas in Holland.

I was at Pegasus bridge, Hermanville, Caen Goodwood. Falaise Pocket, too many battles to list really, then on to the "Market Garden" operation. Yet! if I was asked the worst battle? oddly enough, it would be the "Goodwood battles" Why? you may ask.

One simple answer. Ferocity, sheer unadulterated, ferocity. Seldom in anyone’s life is it possible to experience such concentrated ferocious battles, not only fierce in the extreme, but also the fire power involved. Two thousand heavy bombers to saturate, then, another two thousand fighter bombers and fighters to “Hunt” for targets. 750 guns with abundant rounds!

The losses in British tanks in the headlong rush to reach the Bourgebous ridge, where they were met with a concentrated line of enemy tanks and 88s, our losses? Estimated at 400 tanks. But it was the ferocious way the battle was fought that I recall. The name of Troan still sends shivers down my back.

Recently I met an old Colonel and mentioned the name of Troan, his reaction was immediate “don’t mention that bloody place” He genuinely did not want to talk about it.

How did I feel in to be involved in this battle? Hated it. It scared the living daylights out of me. I still hate the name of “Goodwood” some 60 years on.
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hmmm........................


Delhi 1858
Lucknow 1857-8
Villers-Bocage 1944 (surprised Mahross didnt beat me to this one)
Gandamack 1847(?)
Bourgebus Ridge 1944 (stood next to Von Luck)
Crete 1941
Arnhem 1944
Cawnpore 1857
Ulundi 1879

and can I be a fly inside Hans-Joachim Marseilles cockpit over North Africa????

By the way do we get to take a camera with us to watch these battles?

 

Arras 1940
Raid on St.Nazaire ww2
Waterloo 1815
The Red Lion Liverpool 1969, well not really a battle but my dad said he gave a good fight.....
Bloody Sunday Ulster, I'd like to see what really happened.
But one I'd love to put away for all time 1967 USS Liberty action.

 

"The Red Lion Liverpool 1969, well not really a battle but my dad said he gave a good fight....."

By Urqh.


Still laughin! Thanks that cheered me up no-end!!!

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One more (or three, depending on how you look at it)

The Puic Wars

Sta Bene
DUCE

 

Need to add another one...... to ride in with the gliders landing on top of the forts at Eben Emael.

 

With you on that one!

HAve you read Mrazek's book???

 

Wouldn't mind being at Von Bredow Death Charge at Mars la Tour

 

Dien Bien Phu 1953
The Somme 1916
The Teutoburg Wald Forest 9AD
Gallipoli 1915
Caeser in Gaul

WW2
Crete 1941
Monte Casino 1944
Stalingrad1941/42
Fall of Berlin 1945
The Bulge 1944

 

Nice to see the Fallschirmjager are popular today...

Dien Bien Phu... The Waffen SS Foreign Legion versus the Viet Minh...

Maverik,

What about Yorktown???

 

Yeah,I'm at the part where they[Belgium]are talking "surrendering".