Landing Craft

Just to wet your appetites..



A great day, and I must admit it was vey thought provoking when that ramp went up and we moved off.. I can only guess what GI's must have been thinking when the embarked on journeys in Landing craft.

I'll pick the best of the photos and post in due course..

Lovely, simply lovely !!! Can't wait for the pics !!

Cheers

Pat

Here are a few from my camera:















Cheers,
Ben.

Nice!

Looks really great, well done all, shame I missed out but hopefully if we do it again I'll be there. BTW did it whet Pete's appetite for a new build Ben?

Looks great, ddint realise that it was for all and sundry though, a purely group event would be great, im sure same time next year should be fine for me.

Good pics! Cant wait to see more. Report to follow soon!

Wow guys!!! looks like you guys had a great day, would of been a great day to spend on your birthday, but the slots of blackpool were calling.. Is this going to be happening again?

Here's the first of my photos, slightly edited


Officer and Sergeant looking at Normandy beach ahead of landing.

Not bad at all, Tony! It would look a bit better if it was Utah in the background though, not Omaha...

Cheers,
Ben.

Sorry, I'll try harder next time

Good effort though mate. Looks really good.

Never mind ole LB and his boys will show us how it's done soon enough

murph wrote:Never mind ole LB and his boys will show us how it's done soon enough

Yes i hear the flapping of wings as we speak.

TonyM wrote:Here's the first of my photos, slightly edited


Officer and Sergeant looking at Normandy beach ahead of landing.

Can we also visit the sands of Iwo Jima and some other locations, please. We could do around the world in 80 days GI44-45 style!!

Like it, good effort!

Statue of Liberty, would show youre nearly home, perhaps an "off topic" thread to show how many weird and wonderful places we could be approaching?

I'll see what I can do, in the mean time, here's some more of my shots:

And Sgt Costin passed out his some what questionable 'chocolate' bars



No Pvt Dean don't ask what the crunchy bits are!



Even the Sgt looks a bit suspicious

Hi Tony,
A nice selection of pictures there - thanks for sharing those.
Regards,
Ben.

Great pics! Love how curious we all are eating those D-rats

Nice piccies Tony!

There's certainly a few 'looks' captured within those!

Hero worship?

Great stuff, probably the most talked about event of the year on the WW2 forum, no wonder ole Lee was trying to sneak in the back door!

Hi guys,
I'm very jealous, the pic's look great. I'm glad you all had a good one. I hope we can arrange for the whole group to do it again.

Regards
Tom

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http://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=111926&st=0&start=0