Normandy Jeep Raid June 2010

The crew...

The whole team overlooking Cherbourg.

Camping on top of Hill 121.

The view from the campsite Hill 121.

Camping in the Orchard.

Local hospitality, Normandy cider (home made) a glass of friendship.

V1 launch site.

Roadside planning meeting Le Hey Du Puits.

The view from the front including liberated French Stick.

A well deserved break, Briquebec, or 'Brick a Brack' as the GIs called it, temperature officially 33 degress cent. !

Fatigue sets in...

Riz perfects the art of time travel in the back of a Jeep.

Great picks Murph, keep them coming

'Manny', our despatch rider takes a break.

Manny in action, top class bloke and very committed living historian.

Difficult to see clearly but this is Dave GROVER from TFH standing in an original GI shell scrape. Part of a series of shell scrapes and foxholes discovered by the team in woods.

The monument at the base of Hill 95 about 400 yards from where we found the shell scrapes!

Hill 95 monument, who was Lieut. Kelso HORNE, no use of GOOGLE!

A chance meeting and a toast to Les Americans and De-Gaulle. These guys watched it live!

The man who is 2nd from the left is the man in the centre of the previous Pic. As the Americans liberated his village he joined the Free French Army and went into Germany, he produced this picture form his wallet, as best we could decipher he was a .30 cal gunner.

Back on the road, sort of...

Check your fluids, tighten wheel nuts and remember LOW GEAR!

The 'Bastogne' or was it the 'Normandy' Cookie Club.