Don't tell anyone - but I've just had to Google Narva !

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Shame on you Martin i expected better from you !!!!

Fancy a Tour ??

regards

Paul

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Nikto ne Zabyt . Nichto ne Zabyto.

Let no one forget . Let nothing be forgotten.

Don't tempt me - but I've always fancied a trip to the Baltic States....

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"Stand by to pull me out of the seat if I get hit" - Guy Gibson

Going to the Krinkelterwald Bulge Northern Shoulder area on the German-Belgian border early AM tomorrow morning. Walking 1 mile area were TSgt Vernon McGarity, Pfc Richard Cowan and Sgt Jose Lopez won the Medal of Honor. Also hope to explore the 394th Infantry B and C Company areas northeast of Losheimergraben crossroads. Will post pictures of my journey this weekend.

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"Doc"

I've been to some of the areas you've mentioned and many locations can be easily identified. Please do post your pics here ; they will be of great interest to many !

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"Stand by to pull me out of the seat if I get hit" - Guy Gibson

I have been to several, Reichswald Forrest War Cemetery, Rheineberg Cemetery, Mohne Dam, Eder Dam, All roudn Arnem/Nijmegan/Wolfehaze/Oosterbeek, Colditz, Auschwitz, Zagen, Berlin. I keep meaning to go to Italy and follow the route of the 8th Army

Pearl Harbor, Wheeler Field, Haleiwa, Bellows, Scofield Barracks, Ford Island, Kaneohe, Opana Point, and Ewa.

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"I love deadlines. I love the 'Whooshing' noise they make when they go by." - Doug Adams

Well I have been to Athens, Rome, and Paris. Not really huge battle sites, but the cites were occupied. Of course I didn't actually go for WWII study anyway lol

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"If you want peace work for justice" -Pope Paul VI

Jon

London, Paris, Helsinki, Moscow and St. Petersburg/Leningrad.

I have already posted my places on this thread but one I forgot was stopping over the wreck site of HMS Prince Of Wales & HMS Repulse for a minutes silence.

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Main Collecting Interests: WW II German Soldbucher, Wehrpasses & Award Citations.

-Normandy
-Bastogne
-arnhem
-overloon


I Hope to see more places where history took place!

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Ritterlich im Kriege, wachsam für den Frieden.

I'm jealous, but last year walking the streets of a couple former bombed out cities of the old Reich : Koblenz and Köln. Speyer was interesting as well

and possible Skipper stomping grounds the beautiful Alsace from Colmar, Obernai road to Strassbourg much of the ruins have been removed, remodeled

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Hmm well i don't really know how they call it in english, but in my town there are kind of small hills where soldiers have been barried (?) see that hills 6 times a week if im bringing the papers round.

And visited camp Vught and also some bunkers in the dunes in Zandvoort and Vlissingen and bunkers that are boven the ground in Weert. not that much, but im not sure where all the places are in my environment

But i would like to go underground in Berlin like they do in that program on History Channel Beneed the city's (?) where they did show the bunkers in berlin that are quet deep into the ground.

The Latest ones : Palermo, Sicily and the Lorient Pocket and Sub base in France.

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Went to Hawaii in April. We allotted a day to visit Pearl Harbor. It was pretty amazing, though they rush you at the Memorial itself. Got to meet 2 WW2 Vets there. I didn't realize they just cut off the top and left the ship as is. There is a constant oil leakage that floats on the water. They call this tears from the sailors, choked me up.

Went to the USS Missouri afterwards. It was strange to see modern weapons mixed in with the original. And wooden decks! They have veterans there to answer questions as well, not WW2 but veterans who served on the ship later.

In the late 70s, stationed in Sicily, I visited Naples, Palermo & Sigonila. While stationed in Iceland, I visited London, Nimes, France, Normandy Beach, Weisbadan, Germany (took a cruise on the Rhine) & Copenhagen, Denmark. In each of these places we landed at the local Military bases.

Later in life I visited Paris, Rome & Malta.

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“The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.” Patton

can only admit to st malo,and channel Islands,german underground hospitals,an numerous gunsites,but will be doing normandy on the 7th sep,the landings tour...

So Far I've been to France , Belgium , Germany , Budapest, Italy , Jersey , Denmark, Iceland , Holland ,OZ< Singapore , Poland , USA seeing wall stuff

the Normandy beaches, Falaise gap, Dieppe, USS Intrepid, several graveyards

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All the Best,

Andy

Good that someone posted pictures

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Friends are like potatoes, when you eat them, they die.

Best Regards

Vegar

I didn't realize that either. Could you elaborate what you mean "cut the top off"? You mean everything but the hull, correct?

Everything that sat above the deck.........the hull and decking are still very much intact

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"Logos, Philos, Arete"

Along with 1100+ souls below deck....

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On the Plains of Hesitation
lies the blackend bones of countless millions
who, at the dawn of victory sat down to rest,
and resting died....
(author unknown-I wish it was me)

Let me add the USS Pompanito, SS Jeremiah O'Brien, USS Texas and USS Alabama as well.

The Arizona's remains below water:




Much of what was removed from the Arizona is still sitting on Wapio Peninsula. Purposely left open to the elements so they can use that as a deterioration guide.



Here's another memorial at Pearl Harbor many forget about: The USS Utah.

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"I love deadlines. I love the 'Whooshing' noise they make when they go by." - Doug Adams

I've visited Hiroshima before, and I'm going to Nagasaki next week. I've also visited Pearl Harbor and various monuments and such in Okinawa. I've also gone to the Manzanar former internment camp for Japanese-Americans in California.

Just passing by, spotted this thread and couldn't resist adding this list

I first "visited" these places between 1943 & 1946
(X marks the places where I've "been back to" since those dates)

North Africa
Algiers
Hammamet
Bone
Tunis

Sicily
Syracuse
Bronte
Adrano
Patti
Messina X

Italy
Reggio di Calabria X
Bari
Termoli
Cassino X
Rome X
Florence X
Venice X
Trieste X

Austria
Ferndorf
Trieben
Spittal
Villach

Germany
Ulm

Egypt
Cairo

Regards
Ron

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During the period October 1942 to January 1947 my wartime "Cook's Tour" took me to the following places:
North Africa, Sicily, Italy, Austria, Egypt & Germany.
My units were the: 49th Light Ack Ack Rgt.RA and
The 4th Queen's Own Hussars.