Three cheers! Thank you so much!

Hyman Josefson first American Soldier killed by germans on Lux ground.

Hi all,

I uploaded a small video from Us Cemetery in St. Avold at youtube, for those who are interested click on the link

martin, great pictures thank you

veronique

Hello all ,

I opened a new Photos Album at Google Picasa because yahoo changed to flickr so the old links will not work anymore

For those who are interested just click on the links THX.

1. From Normandy official presentation of the Band of Brothers movie on the 5 june 2001 at Utah Beach in presence of the Vets.

http://picasaweb.google.com/rennog/BandOfB...key=W9aF7R7lc40

2.From Perlé in Luxembourg remembrance of the two crews from two B17 who crashed on the ground of Perlé after a bombing mission from Germany

http://picasaweb.google.com/rennog/PerlLuxembourg

3.60th commemoration of the liberation of Luxembourg 10 sept. 1944 - 2004 it was a moving ceremony at the Us. cemetery in Lux- Hamm and a great Party in the city of Lux in the Evening.

http://picasaweb.google.com/rennog/60Anniv...ionOfLuxembourg

3.Some photos from Bastogne

http://picasaweb.google.com/rennog/BastogneBelgium

4. 60 Remembrance day in Ettelbrück

http://picasaweb.google.com/rennog/60Remem...eDayInEttelbrCk

5.Normandy june 2002

http://picasaweb.google.com/rennog/NormandyJune2002

6.Hyman Josefson Square - Pétange - First American killed for our liberty in Luxembourg

http://picasaweb.google.com/rennog/HymanJosefsonSquarePTange

7.Us cemetary Sandweiler Luxembourg

http://picasaweb.google.com/rennog/UsCemet...eilerLuxembourg

8.Memorial Day 2006 in Luxembourg Sandweiler

http://picasaweb.google.com/rennog/Memoria...bourgSandweiler

9.Clervaux Luxembourg - Sherman and german 88 pak

http://picasaweb.google.com/rennog/Clervaux

10.Some Tanks and monuments tfrom the Battle of the Bulge.

http://picasaweb.google.com/rennog/BelgiumArdenne

11.Us cemetery St. Avold France

http://picasaweb.google.com/rennog/UsCemeteryStAvoldFrance

12.Monument Medernach Luxembourg

http://picasaweb.google.com/rennog/MonumentMedernach

13.Maulusmühle Aircraft crash site

http://picasaweb.google.com/rennog/Maulusm...rcraftCrashSite

14.Schumanns Eck - Memorial at Schumanns Eck where many American and German soldiers died during the Battle of the Bulge 1944-1945.

http://picasaweb.google.com/rennog/SchumannsEck

15.Luxembourg City photos

http://picasaweb.google.com/rennog/LuxembourgCity

Here a link from a coworkers album with photos from the Luxembourg Railroad Yard - May 09, 1944 after an airraid.

http://picasaweb.google.com/quaffit/Luxemb...adYardMay091944

More coming soon (maybe)

Martin

Martin thanks for your time and patience. It had to take some effort to move all your photos to the new setup and then post these new links for all of us. I took the time to remove all the old links/posts from earlier dates.

Is it just me, but I'm seeing all the photos somewhat blurry.

They look very interesting and I have seen several of the monuments myself over the years.

Erwin

Is it just me, but I'm seeing all the photos somewhat blurry.

They look very interesting and I have seen several of the monuments myself over the years.

 

Erwin

Don't know what's the problem but sometimes google need some time to get them sharp and clear.

Someone else has the same problem? If yes please let me know Thx.

Here the new links from my Normandy visit last year Part 1

http://picasaweb.google.com/rennog/NormandyJune2007

Part 2.

http://picasaweb.google.com/rennog/NormandyJune2007Part2

Martin

Jeeps, this happens with some web slideshows, but it only takes a few moments for the slide to fully download and become sharp. I've seen this happen numerous times, and not only with Martin's slides.

Great pictures, Martin! I must reiterate what I told Veronica when she showed us her Normandy photos: I'm extremely jealous! I'll make it to Europe someday - just don't know when. The only WWII battle site I have seen (living in the US you are pretty limited) was Okinawa. When I was in the Marine reserves before I got commissioned, I went to Oki for a two week training event. During the weekend we were there we did the Okinawa battle site tour which took us to the Japanese naval underground HQ, Sugarloaf, and Shuri Castle (the rebuilt Shuri castle.) It was very cool although I wish I had read With the Old Breed before I had gone there.

Let that be a lesson to you all, before you go to a battlefield or other historic site, learn as much as you can! I studied Gettysburg before going and it made the experience much better. I visited Fort Fisher before learning anything about it and it just looked like big evenly spaced man-made hills. Learning about it afterward, I kinda slapped my forehead and said, "Oh! I get it now!"

Thx CaptO, well maybe one day you'll make it to this side of the pond and we could meet at one of those battlefields over here, that were great .

I would like to visit the battle areas in the pacific like Iwo Jima and others, the GI's had more then one D-DAY over there, these Jab's were a fierce adversary .

You're right about learning as much as possible from a battlefield, I do not know how I should express it but I think you get a better feeling if you know what has happened where you stand.

CaptO do you know about the battle of Verdun? Wednesday I'll go with a friend of mine for the whole day to Verdun and maybe we'll make to the Us. cemetery of Saint Mihiel near Thiaucourt it's +/- 48 km from Verdun (30 miles) I'll shoot a lot of photos .

Here's a link from that battle http://www.worldwar1.com/dbc/stmihiel.htm

You don't have any photos from your visit at Okinawa? I would like to see them.

So have a nice sunday you all.

Martin

On the 25 april I made a spontaneous trip to Bastogne and shot some photos from the area if you like here's the link: http://picasaweb.google.com/rennog/Bastogne

Martin

Hi I added 3 new Albums at picasa

http://picasaweb.google.com/rennog/PerleAn...feat=directlink

http://picasaweb.google.com/rennog/Bastogn...feat=directlink

http://picasaweb.google.com/rennog/KingTig...feat=directlink

I added some photos from today in the 552 album

http://picasaweb.google.com/rennog/552?aut...feat=directlink

Martin

Are those your two "wee" ones in the photos? They are very cute!