More interesting pictures.... and some other stuff....

More interesting pictures from another Time Life retrospective [clicky]... [post edit - link long gone but I managed to re-find some of the pictures below - StW 1/'19 - if it's still there - this is just as good https://sandroesposito.wordpress.com/2012/09/11/rare-colour-photos-of-before-and-after-d-day-wwii/]

I thought this was amazing - want to know what feldgrau (or GI issue) looks like under combat/campaign conditions? Here you go... (and this to me is where the re-enactors have it soooooo wrong.... they're always too clean, and they're also too errrrr..... "healthy" looking... 😏)

Another thought when I looked at this picture - there's not a smile among them - they don't look relieved to have been captured - is it me or do those guys look like they were quite ready to carry on but for the fact they'd been captured? Interesting....

Labelled "An abandoned German machine gun, France, June 1944" but it looks French to me - a Hotchkiss Model 1914 [clicky] - perhaps liberated in 1940 and put to use against it's previous owners???

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Got an email about this today - very interesting!

Being hosted at the National Army Museum - more information here [clicky]

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Re. random new year resolution #2 [clicky] - I've just spotted it's the 370th Anniversary of the battle on the 13th July - serendipity??! 😀

Mick Aston (1 July 1946 - 24 June 2013)

Woke up this morning to find that Mick Aston [clicky] had died... probably not the best known of characters, but he was a (very) prominent archaeologist, and one of the original team that helped to create the magic and wonderment that was "Time Team" [clicky]...

I've been watching with huge interest for years, and I'm still not convinced that I wouldn't like to take an archaeology course when the government finally lets me retire - and that interest is all thanks to this program, and in particular this bloke along with Phil, and Tony Robinson...

RIP with many thanks for the huge number of interesting archaeological digs you and the team managed to bring to life through your enthusiasm....

D-Day colour pictures

The following grabbed my eye today while reading one of the online newspaper sites...

Picture copyright Getty images/Life magazine etc.

...because it reminded me so much of this....

The difference of course is that the first picture is real (St. Lo I believe following Allied aerial bombardment) and the second picture was taken at Salute this year....

The first picture comes from a number of previously unreleased pictures on the Time Life website [clicky]

Well worth a visit!!

Random new year resolutions ... #2

Time to (re-)visit Roundway Down.... 😀

Happy Fathers Day...

...to me...  😏

...and to all the other Dads...!