Staying recently in a most beautiful Bed & Breakfast right behind Mont Ormel in the Falaise Gap the owners were delighted to hear of my WWII interest and were keen to 'pick my brains' on the nearby battles.

They also produced this fascinating object - a German Field Telephone ( sadly, minus handset ) which had recently been discovered hidden beneath floorboards in the farmhouse.


















The farmhouse was directly in line of the rtreating German forces ; other items found included discarded ammunition, gasmask canisters, etc.

Definitely my kind of 'B&B' !

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

Superb find, Martin! Did you offer to, er, liberate it?

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Gordon
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What a find. Fantastic. interesting to see the phoenetic alphabet in german

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American by birth, TEXAN by the grace of GOD!

It looks so fresh new that there surely is a German operator at the other end waiting for orders....

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"Vorwärts! Immer vorwärts!"

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Bah!

What a fantastic find. It just goes to show that there are still items hidden away in French houses just waiting to be discovered.

Think i may give the B&B owner a call from my field phone to say hello

Martin, did find the monument to the P-51 pilots situated near the Moissy Ford ?

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John

"It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see" - Winston Churchill

You'll all hate me for this - but I convinced the owners that the radio was a wonderful piece of the history of their very lovely old house and as such it should stay there....

And anyway, I did of course come back with a bag of rattling bits and pieces from the heart of the battlefield !

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

Nice find Martin, but if you were a real historian you would have put your fingers on the two knobs and give it a crank to see what the wattage was.

Or you could be like the people in Alabama and go catch a batch of fish in a hurry.

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Do elaborate on your battlefield finds Martin ?

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John

"It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see" - Winston Churchill

My thoughts exactly!

-whatever

-Lou

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I agree there is so much more hidden. One of my friends is a fireman and he gets calls on a regular basis from people who have found items, mostly they are amno. Only two days ago another 500 kilo bomb was found near Tours.

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