Colin McGarry - Normandy Tour Guide

09/06/2025

Je croyais que c’est interdit de placer le tabac dans les films. Apparement, non.

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07/06/2025

Impossible

06/06/2025

Omaha beach 6th june 2025. Wide view and flyover.

06/06/2025

6 June Omaha beach.

04/06/2025

This week there are hundreds of Jeeps around the beaches. I was surprised to see one made by HOtchkiss. The WIkipedia article included this.
"The Hotchkiss 680 was an important model between the wars—it had a six-cylinder, 3-litre engine. In 1937, the company merged with Amilcar. J. A. Grégoire joined the company as a designer. After World War II, the 680 continued. The first new car post war was a 13 CV four-cylinder model. From 1947, two-litre flat-four models are frequently called Hotchkiss-Grégoire. In 1954, Hotchkiss purchased French manufacturer Delahaye, closing down their automotive line but continuing to produce Hotchkiss-Delahaye trucks for a few months before eliminating the Delahaye name completely. After 1954, Hotchkiss manufactured Jeeps under licence from Willys.

In 1956, Hotchkiss merged with French weapon manufacturer Brandt, producing jeeps at their factory near Paris for the French military until 1966. The firm was merged into Thomson-Houston in 1966 and in 1970 stopped producing vehicles. In the early 1970s, the Hotchkiss marque disappeared, as the French conglomerate came to be known as Thomson-Brandt [fr]. This, in turn, was nationalized in 1982 to form Thomson SA."

The Hotchkiss being made under licence from Wylis, has the rounded cross memebr behind the grill. The FORDs have a retcangular cross section.

The first photo shows a FORD rectangular cross section.

01/06/2025

On the site geoportail.gouv.fr in the section aerial photos 1950 to 1965 the corncobs are still visible at st Laurent, and the phenixes at Vierville.

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27/05/2025

Les braves à marée haute.

The brave at high tide.

26/05/2025

Memorial day at the Normandy American cemetery

26/05/2025

Don't think I've ever seen the tide so low at Pointe du hoc.

11/05/2025

American pilot disguised as a peasant, the Germans didn't see him.

Ils l'ont récupéré dans un champ, rhabillé comme un gars du coin, mis à table devant une galette et une bolée de cidre... Et quand les Allemands ont débarqué, ils n'y ont vu que du feu. À Médréac en Ille-et-Vilaine, la fille...

06/05/2025