tuhhodge Posted June 5, 2013 Share Posted June 5, 2013 In the course of the day job I flew over Normandy at lunchtime today and thought you guys might appreciate some shots from the cockpit. Sorry about the poor quality. I blame the iPhone and 38000 feet of atmosphere. Hope you like these photos of Carentan, Isigny and Omaha, with Sword, Juno and Gold off in the distance. I get a funny feeling flying over Normandy. To think all of those famous events actually happened just down there! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sublime Posted June 5, 2013 Share Posted June 5, 2013 So Omaha is in the foreground? Thanks.. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuhhodge Posted June 5, 2013 Author Share Posted June 5, 2013 Yep, it's the white concave slither of beach in the middle of each pic! Carentan is the bottom left of the first pic, Isigny just above the line of clouds in the second pic. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce90 Posted June 5, 2013 Share Posted June 5, 2013 Great stuff. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erwin Posted June 5, 2013 Share Posted June 5, 2013 What a gorgeous day for flying. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sburke Posted June 5, 2013 Share Posted June 5, 2013 I had a similar experience flying in to Germany last year. Went right over most of the battleground the 101st fought over in MG. Considered yelling at the pilot to slow down or circle around and then thought better of it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chek Posted June 5, 2013 Share Posted June 5, 2013 Great pics looks nice and peaceful down there now. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wicky Posted June 5, 2013 Share Posted June 5, 2013 What a view! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c3k Posted June 5, 2013 Share Posted June 5, 2013 Huh. I recognize most of those fields based on the CM battles I've fought on them. Ken 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sublime Posted June 5, 2013 Share Posted June 5, 2013 Wow thanks man. Its crazy Omaha is right there. Imagine all the poor guys laying beneath those fields, dead before they were even 20. =/ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtsjc1 Posted June 6, 2013 Share Posted June 6, 2013 It gives you an amazing amount of respect for all those men. Look at those wide expanses of beach and how these soldiers had to wade in and be human targets for hundreds of yards. God bless all the soldiers of all sides who fought in this battle. Its incredible that operation was successful given incredible odds here. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonS Posted June 6, 2013 Share Posted June 6, 2013 Stirring words. I wonder if their effect on said soldiers, sailors and airmen was what we'd like to imagine, or more in line with Squadron Leader Michael Crossley's retort to Churchill's "Never was so much owed by so many to so few" speech; "Careful Chaps, the PM has seen our mess bill." I suspect the latter. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonS Posted June 6, 2013 Share Posted June 6, 2013 and the other dispatch Eisenhower wrote that day Eisenhower had very big shoulders. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuhhodge Posted June 6, 2013 Author Share Posted June 6, 2013 Point du Hoc is the little triangle jutting out to the right of Omaha, at the bottom right of the photo. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonS Posted June 6, 2013 Share Posted June 6, 2013 It looks so peaceful. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuhhodge Posted June 6, 2013 Author Share Posted June 6, 2013 Check out this innovative D Day TV and internet coverage: http://dday7.channel4.com/ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erwin Posted June 6, 2013 Share Posted June 6, 2013 Glad they are making such a big deal of D-Day this year. I guess next year it will be WW1's 100th year anniversary. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nidan1 Posted June 6, 2013 Share Posted June 6, 2013 What exciting pictures! It's hard to imagine what that same views would have looked like in 1944. Thank you for sharing them with us. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatehunter Posted June 6, 2013 Share Posted June 6, 2013 I worked on ships in europe for a decade. Going up the Loire river in France revealed huge u-boat pens still there. I went into Cherbourg, Fecamp, Dieppe, Oostende. Driving through Holland there were pillboxes in farmers fields. The history there send shivers down the spine. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuhhodge Posted June 7, 2013 Author Share Posted June 7, 2013 Although they were never used in anger because the Battle of Britain was won in 1940, we have loads of pill boxes around here in Suffolk. They're just part of the rural furniture. It seems unreal that people seriously considered the possibility of battles being fought around my home, but I guess the locals in Normandy thought the same thing in 1940. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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