where has this site been all my life!

hello there,

25yr old Belgian living in Gabon, W-africa and always been a fan of WW2 history.

I can't believe I haven't found this site earlier, it's awesome!

So there you have it, another new member joins the ranks to keep the memory alive

See you around on the forums

 

From Gabon! Now that's something new here!

 

Welcome Piron .

 

Hello Piron,

Welcome and join the "gang"! We have lots of interesting things to discuss!

 

Welcome on board Piron. I hope we"ll be able to share some nice thoughts together.

 

Hi Piron,
Welcome on board.
I think I know you by name on some Dutch forums, you also search with an metaldetector?

Regards,
Nick

 

Welcome to the forum Piron. Glad to have you aboard. Happy posting

 

Wow, such a warm welcome, many thanks guys

Must be someone else, sorry, this is the first time I used this nick on a forum

Actually Jean Piron was a Belgian commanding a small contingent of soldiers from Luxemburg and Belgium. They landed on the normandy beeches a week or two after DDay, working their way all the way up to Brussels and into Germany

Hell, I'll make it my first real contribution to the site when I have some time

Also there was a minor battle in Gabon at the start of WW2 involving the Free French and Vichy forces, that'll be my 2nd contribution

Soo many ideas, I have a feeling i'm gonna enjoy myself here

cya around and thx again 4 the welcome

 

Yes Piron, looks like your the first from that part of the world....

Hows the weather?!

Welcome aboard

 

Hey Piron, any news about western refugees arriving from Tchad in Gabon tonight?

 

Welcome to the forum.

Good to see people around the world come onto one website..

(Its better then a phone!)

 

actually i do. I work with the World Bank here and the staff from Chad came to our office today to work/contact families, etc
permit me to go off topic here but since the q was asked:

They told me it was hell out there, dead bodies (mostly civilians)in the streets, mortar rounds and machine gun fire all over the place. One shell actually hit very close to them but luckily noone was injured. All staff are safe and accounted for, except two chadians who wanted to stay behind.

Apparently Deby's gonna manage to subdue the rebellion after all. He was surrounded in his palace but held out there with his guard, even refusing a french offer to evacuate him
The bulk of the Chadian army was at the border with Sudan and they were completely taken by surprise by the attack on Ndjamena. They're pouring into the city as we speak and should normally succeed in driving the rebels back.

No way the rebels could have pulled this off without Sudanese help, don't believe a word they're saying on TV as if they have nothing to do with it. Sudan wants to block the EU force that was supposed to deploy this week, so they can keep covering up what they're doing in Darfur...

Not that Deby's a school boy either of course...

Ach makes you wonder if humanity has learned nothing from the carnage of WW2 :/

 

Welcome to the forum

Sebastian.

 

Interesting times and places indeed! Just make sure you aren't going to die of lead poisoning

When it all dies down, aren't you going to need a construction project controls manager for, say, the country's infrastructure, French speaking and all?

I mean it!

 

Hi Piron andwelcome from PommeLand! Enjoy the forum and I hope you learn as much from it as I have.

If there is anything we can ever do just ask!
Cheers,
Stefan

 

Hello there. I suspect it's marginally warmer there than it is here ?

 

Hello and welcome to this fourm.

 

Thanks for the info Piron. It is always nice to have first hand news.

 

Another Belgian

welgekomen or is it bienvenue ?

anyways welcome.