military holiday snaps

arnhem44

Now i know we all have these so i was wondering if anyone would care to share there photos with the rest of us

arnhem44

heres a few from Duxford war museumin England,a really great day out if you haven't been there already but beleave me you won't get it all in,check out the Irish two seater training Spitfire,forgot to mention in the first post the photos are a gato class sub the arizona and the missouri in Pearl harbour,the other two are the soviet war memorial near the Brandenburg gate and the victory coloum still showing signs of battle damage in Berlin

arnhem44

sorry about that,here are the Duxford ones

arnhem44

heres another few from pearl harbour and honolulu

arnhem44

Here is the Kaiser Wilhelm church in Berlin,it remains bombed out and still stands as a memorial,inside the church is a cross made out of nails gathered from the cathedral in coventry bombed during the war which was presented to the church after the war,some of the others are on the missiouri battleship showing some of the battle damage which still remains after a kamakazi hit it in the pacific,there is a photo of this happening just as the plane is about to hit in one of the books i brought back

ollaetta

This thread is an excellent idea. Here's my tuppence worth from my travels in Normandy, Poland and Germany. Didn't realise how many I had until I tried to pick five.

arnhem44

ollaetta wrote: »

This thread is an excellent idea. Here's my tuppence worth from my travels in Normandy, Poland and Germany. Didn't realise how many I had until I tried to pick five.

Hi ollaetta,thanks for posting:),i love the camp photos,one is almost ghost like,never realised how long the beach heads were in Normandy,i've been trying to persaude my wife to go there so hopefully next year i'll get there,to many commitiments this year for a trip

ollaetta

Cheers arnhem44! Yes, Omaha is a hell of a beach. Wide open and miles long.

I'd recommend Normandy to anyone with an interest in the war. There is so much still there to see and it's all easily accessible. I go there almost every year around the anniversary of D-Day and have even gotten "herself" interested at this stage.:D

Here's a few more pics:

ollaetta

Made a bags of attaching the pics. Here goes again:

arnhem44

ollaetta wrote: »

Made a bags of attaching the pics. Here goes again:

After looking at these,its a definate must now for a visit next year,some lovely photos again ollaetta:)

ollaetta

Cheers arnhem 44! Just back today from my first visit to Berlin. Went to Sachenhausen concentration camp and the few remaining visible Third Reich sites in the city. The camp was every bit as eerie and sobering as Auschwitz or Dachau.

arnhem44

Lovely city to visit,I went last year and loved every minute of it,I wanted to get back there this year but I don't think I'll make it,we tried to organise a day out to the Lufftwaffe museum outside the city but of course it was the day it was closed:(,maybe next time.I think I made up for it though on one of my many trips to duxford in England,for a small donation I got to go into the Sally B flying fortress and man one of the browning machine guns,spent around twenty minutes in her,made my day.If anyone is interested it has an amazinng amount of armour and aircraft there,five full hangers and two new display areas for both American and British Aircraft,just imagine walking in and having a B52,B29,b17,an SR71 Blackbird,a Huey Helicopter and other small displays on the floor alone,theres as much again hanging from the ceiling,they even have a ramp there for the German flying bombs,an great place.

ollaetta

Yes, Duxford is a great place to visit. Actually, this year is the 90th anniversary of the founding of the RAF and there is bound to be some good stuff going on throughout the summer.

For a start, if anyone is in the vicinity of East Kirkby in Lincolnshire on the last weekend in May there is an interesting lineup of events at the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre including a Spitfire ME 109 dogfight on the Monday.

http://www.lincsaviation.co.uk/home.cfm

arnhem44

ollaetta wrote: »

Yes, Duxford is a great place to visit. Actually, this year is the 90th anniversary of the founding of the RAF and there is bound to be some good stuff going on throughout the summer.

For a start, if anyone is in the vicinity of East Kirkby in Lincolnshire on the last weekend in May there is an interesting lineup of events at the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre including a Spitfire ME 109 dogfight on the Monday.

http://www.lincsaviation.co.uk/home.cfm

That would be nice to see,haven't seen an Me109 yet,is that one of the spanish versions??,nothing like the sound of a merlin though.

marcsignal

There's some great stuff here in Germany, if you know where to look for it

some pics here of the Remains of Adolf's house in Berchtesgarten, and the tunnels underneath. Remains of an old V2 factory, some aircraft pics, and some pics of the Das Boot U-Boat in the Bavaria film studio. (They used an original Boat, and a small scale model for battle scenes etc.)

marcsignal

and some more

marcsignal

and finally

arnhem44

Here are a couple that may bring memories for some here,took these at the vintage fair I was at on sunday and monday,sorry don't know the names

arnhem44

Here is a couple I came across earlier,there not the best quality,these were taken from a moving tour bus,one is the part remains of the berlin wall and one of checkpoint charlie

Morlar

Here are a few of Berlin

Finance ministry (Wartime Luftwaffe HQ)

http://fc05.deviantart.com/fs13/f/2006/364/3/f/Finance_Ministry_Berlin_by_zwanzig.jpg

Berliner Dom
http://fc05.deviantart.com/fs6/f/2006/351/c/2/Berliner_Dom___doorway_by_zwanzig.jpg

& the restored roof (a firebomb came through the stained glass angel in the center of this)

http://fc05.deviantart.com/fs13/f/2006/357/3/0/Berlin_Dom___interior_II_by_zwanzig.jpg

Reichstag 2006
http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs15/f/2006/358/d/e/Reichstag_by_zwanzig.jpg

Soviet War memorial
http://fc06.deviantart.com/fs14/f/2006/360/b/7/Soviet_War_Memorial_by_zwanzig.jpg
This is in former west berling and apparently the soviet soldiers were routinely pelted with stones when visiting this from the east (there is a pidgeon on his head if you look closely).

Siegessaule detail

http://fc07.deviantart.com/fs14/f/2006/363/2/2/Siegessaule_detail_by_zwanzig.jpg

& Siegessaule at sunset

http://fc07.deviantart.com/fs13/f/2006/363/f/c/Siegessaule_sunset_by_zwanzig.jpg

More coldwar looking that WW2

http://fc07.deviantart.com/fs14/f/2006/365/a/d/Berlin_by_night_II_by_zwanzig.jpg

with the communist built Fernsehturm tv tower dominating the skyline from Alexanderplatz.

arnhem44

Heres a few for the weapons fans

arnhem44

Continued

arnhem44

and finally

arnhem44

Here we have a wing section of a downed zero from pearl harbour,next the weapons system on an ac cobra,a round from the missouri battleship,one of the various torpedo's on display with a Gato class submarine in the background and finally two navy missile/rockets