Saturday, May 31, 2014

D-6: Hot Ship

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Contrasts of D-Day "hot ships:" Here, just to get it out there, is a Hawker Typhoon. Powerful, menacing. Even the radiato...
Friday, May 30, 2014

D-7: Better Living Through Chemistry

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Eh? The theme that I was trying to capture with this image (apart from, you know, me being a terrible photographer who is a littl...
Thursday, May 29, 2014

D-8: The Rising Tide

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Normandy is a coastal Atlantic region. Great tides meet a low coast here, and the result is St. Aubert's monastery , erected, Wiki...
Wednesday, May 28, 2014

D-9: Beaching an LST

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An ideal view of an LST:    It is ideal because we see the ramp open, as much as anything else. This is how an LST is suppose...
Tuesday, May 27, 2014

D-Day -10: Not Enough Tanks

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That's a Churchill VII (thanks to Wikipedia)., although contemporary Ministry of Production documents refer to it as a "Heavy ...
Monday, May 26, 2014

D-Day -11: Some Assembly Required

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"Hey, I know! Let's assemble a ramp out of Mechano parts and then drive a 400 ton locomotive up it and onto a barge! ( Safety equ...
Sunday, May 25, 2014

D-12: What Hath God Wrought?

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You know what's a good book?  Even in 1944, they postblogged, and on Thursday, May 25, 1944, someone took time out to celebrate ...