Mike's Battlezone Tour - D-Day Landing Beaches

04/09/2024

Photograph of British Field Marshal Montgomery and US General Eisenhowerm the Supreme Allied Commander, taken in Frankfurt, June 1945.

04/09/2024

The Volkswagen Type 166, better known as the Schwimmwagen, shown with its canvas up and engine cover opened. The Schwimmwagen is a really cool amphibious car that was very popular among anyone who got their hands on one during the war. They had a smooth bottom, a boat-shaped body and a propeller at the rear. They were powered by a rear-mounted air-cooled boxer engine. 👇👇

https://militaryhistoria.com/schwimmwagen/

03/09/2024

03/09/2024

10 July 1944. A 6-pounder anti-tank gun of the 1st Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers, part of the 9th Brigade of the British 3rd Division, along with Canadian Sherman tanks in Rue Montoir Poissonnerie near St-Pierre Church, Caen.

01/09/2024

Cromwell of the 2nd Welsh Guards, Guards Armoured Division, in Trie-Château France - August 31, 1944

IWM - Laing (Sgt) Photographer
IWM BU 293

01/09/2024

Sherman Firefly leading a column of Sherman tanks of the Guards Armoured Division near Beauvais France - August 31, 1944
IWM - Laing (Sgt) Photographer
IWM BU 298

01/09/2024

Sherman Vs (M4A4) of the Guards Armoured Division between Villers-Bretonneux and Fouilloy on their way to Arras - September 1, 1944

IWM - Laing (Sgt) Photographer
IWM BU 272

01/09/2024

General George S. Patton, commander of the US 3rd Army, in Normandy - August 1944

US Army Signal Corps Photographer
IWM EA 35720

01/09/2024

French Resistance / FFI members cheer a Sherman Firefly of the Guards Armoured Division near Beauvais France - August 31, 1944

IWM - Laing (Sgt) Photographer
IWM BU 301

01/09/2024

Locals wave as a British Sherman III (M4A2) passes through Gisors Normandy - August 31, 1944
IWM - Midgley, A. N. (Sgt) Photographer
IWM B 9809

01/09/2024

Destroyed Tiger II in Le Plessis-Grimoult, France, 1944. The tank was parked up during ammunition resupply when it was spotted by a small platoon of British light infantry. Equipped with only a 2-inch mortar, the team attacked and managed to score a hit on the ammunition truck resupplying the tank. The subsequent explosion destroyed this Tiger II, knocking its turret off in the process.

30/08/2024

30/08/2024

Alors les champions, c'est quoi ce fusil?

30/08/2024

A very young Grenadier of the 12th SS Panzer Division HitlerJugend looking into the distance July 21st 1944.

30/08/2024

General Dwight D. Eisenhower visited the Falaise Pocket in Normandy at the end of August 1944.

30/08/2024

Sexton 25-Pounder self-propelled gun of the British 11th Armoured Division crossing the Seine at Vernon, Normandy - August 30, 1944

IWM - Laing (Sgt) Photographer
IWM B 9807

30/08/2024

Soldats allemands capturés au Ruquet.

30/08/2024

Sherman Firefly with the British 11th Armoured Division crossing the Seine at Vernon, Normandy - August 30, 1944

IWM - Laing (Sgt) Photographer
IWM B 9806

29/08/2024

German prisoners on the road between Ecouché and Argentan in Normandy, with advancing British armour in the background, August 1944.

28/08/2024

British 6th Airborne personnel in Normandy with a captured German half-track mounting a 20mm gun, which they had used to shoot down a Luftwaffe aircraft - August 28, 1944
The half-track appears to be a Sd.Kfz.10/4 with a Flak 38

Thanks Robert Allen Dail Jr for his assistance
IWM - Wilkes (Sgt) Photographer
IWM B 9737

28/08/2024

ALLIED ORDER OF BATTLE FOR D-DAY JUNE 6 1944

The Allied units dedicated for Operation Overlord included:

- U.S. V Corps: U.S. 1st Infantry Division and the U.S. 29th Infantry Division
- U.S. VII Corps: U.S. 4th Infantry Division, U.S. 101st Airborne Division and the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division
- British 6th Airborne Division
- British I Corps: 3rd British Infantry Division and the British 27th Armoured Brigade
- British ### Corps: British 50th Infantry Division and British 8th Armoured Brigade
- British 79th Armoured Division
- 3rd Canadian Infantry Division and 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade
- Naval forces from eight Allied navies contributed 6,939 vessels
- 1,213 warships
- 4,126 transport vessels
- 736 other vessels
- 864 merchant vessels

28/08/2024

12 June 1944: A group of American soldiers stand in the village of Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, which was liberated by paratroopers of the 501st and 506th Regiments of the 101st Airborne Division. 7 May 2014: A view of the old village fountain today.

28/08/2024

British Sherman tank crews take a rest and write letters home during a lull in operations near the River Seine at Vernon Normandy - August 27/28, 1944

IWM - Midgley, A. N. (Sgt) Photographer
IWM B 9775

28/08/2024

St.-Aubin-sur-Mer/ Juno Beach.

28/08/2024

The 5cm Kwk at WN29 in
Courseulles-sur-Mer/Juno Beach.