What World War 2 places have you visited?

If you see 2 guys in camoflage walking with metaldetectors. Thats us.
We have permission the search on some fields overthere.

Regards,

Nick

 

good luck with detecting nick..ray..

 

Nick, so you have permission from the landowner and the local mayor to search in the fields?...Lucky you. Whereabouts will you be searching?

Ray, have a great time and make sure you get plenty of photographs. Let me know if you need some suggestions on places to visit.

 

camera ready for action john,will do,ray..

 

Just came back from Nagasaki.

 

If Nick doesn't post some pictures here, we'll never talk to him again.....

 

I have been to Corregidor, Bataan, and Ising, Subic, and Clark Field.

 

i have been to, fort dennison, normandy and pearl harbour

 

Leyte, my wife's family was from about 10 miles away.

 

Over the last 3 years I have been to:

England

Eden Camp

France

All the Normandy beaches
Arromanches
Pointe-Du-Hoc
Longue-sur-Mer
Colleville-sur-Mer
Le Blockhaus at Eperclecques
The Merville Battery
La Coupole
Grandcamp-Maisy (shut, unfortunately!)
Pegasus Bridge
Saint-Mere-Eglise
Port-en-Bessin
Douvres-la-Delivrande
Le Grand Bunker
Sanctuary Wood
Fortress de Mimoyecques (closed again!)
Caen Peace museum

Holland

John Frost Bridge
Hartenstein Hotel
National Liberation Museum (Nijmagen)
Liberty Park (Overloon)

Belgium

Bastogne
Foxholes at Bois Jacques
Band of Brothers Memorial
Mardasson Memorial

Wherever possible we visit any cemeteries local to the places we are going to.

We are planning another trip for next year, probably over towards Saint-Nazaire this time.

 

Mainly Ford Island, Hickam AFB, and a cemetary here on O'ahu

 

I have been to severaly of the old camps in the states have'nt seen any of the battle sites abroad. I would like to just hate air travel makes me nervous just traveling for business within the U.S. I have been to Jimmy Stewarts home, Ernie Pyles home and to the major airbases like Eglin, Wright Patterson and Mitchell. My families farm used to be in Camp Atterbury before the camp was built. I am usually there several times throughout the year. Other camps and forts I have been to and sometimes whats left of them Lee, Benning, McCain, Edwards, Claiborne, Perry and Lejuene. I have seen USS Alabama and hope to get back out again this summer to continue visiting the camps.

 

Almost forgot about Luzon

 

How much of the WWII era remain at these camps? Do you contact any local historians to help guide you to places within these camps that you might have missed? Someday, I would like to visit Ft. Jackson, SC, Ft. Leonard Wood, MO, Camp Forrest, TN (if anything remains), and Camp Laguna (remains?), AZ and the WWII desert training and maneuver area to see if any parts of their WWII history remain.

Greg C.

 

Greg at Camp Atterbury it is still pretty much ww2. When the camp was built the hospital at the time was considered state of the art. My grandfather's farm was relocated about 15 miles away from it and he would pick soldiers up heading towards Franklin, Indiana. I remember as a kid that the artillery practice would light up the night sky and this was in the 1980s. There is still the German POW chapel and I have found some items with a metal detector around the old family cemetery. The local historical society did a real nice history on Atterbury called the Atterbury files. It is still active as a military base I think just for the national guard. But during ww2 the majority of enlisted and discharged for this part of the country went through that camp. Sherman tanks are at the camp entrance I think? But the officers houses from the 40s line the main road and the hospital still stands. The majority of camps I visited are just remnants of what they were during the war all have had modern updates or ground had been sold off. But each one has had something like artillery or captured German equipment on display to never forget their part in history.

 

Colditz Castle
Sagan
Arnhem
RAF Ridgewell
Oradur-Sur-Glane
Normandy Beaches
The Atlantic wall - Calais Coast
Berlin - Site of The Furher Bunker
100th Bomb Group base
Prague - The church where the SoE Agents died
Dresden

 

I can't wait until my summer vacation, last summer i visited so many new places, and i found alot of relics too(Read about it here: http://www.ww2f.com/living-history/34154-my-vacation.html ).

 

You know urqh, you can go to the google earth website, and scroll over to Pearl Harbor and see the site from above. Those pictures of the USS Arizona and West Virginia are from google earth I believe.