La Petite MUSETTE, News from WWII
La Petite MUSETTE, News from WWII
M1 Garand Ammo. Clips
The M1 Garand: A gun that enters the Legend The clips of 8 Cal.30 cartridges comes to supply the first semi-automatic rifle of the US army: the M1 Garand. The production of these clips was such that most of those produced during the Second World War were actually used...
read moreAlbert J. Ricciuti : A war, a love, an inheritance.
A cosmopolitan and multicultural family Albert Justin Ricciuti was born in 1923 on Lakewood Avenue in the east of Baltimore, Maryland. His father Raffaele, an Italian immigrant who had arrived in the United States at the beginning of the 20th century, had...
read moreElements of German administrative offices
Offices in the German army We will never repeat it enough, all military equipment is not necessarily green and does not look like a helmet or a weapon. As evidenced by these two office accessories, there are other witnesses of the Second World War passing more...
read moreOsteck: The Battery with Hidden Frescoes
A fortified battery at the East of Cherbourg It is in the North Cotentin a battery delivered to its own fate. Indeed, the Osteck point of defense, located in Carneville (Manche - 50), an important complex of dozens of concrete buildings of all types, commanded in...
read moreThe Cemetery of Saint Valéry en Caux (76)
A military cemetery in a peaceful valley Located between the towns of Fécamp and Dieppe (76), the village of Saint Valéry en Caux shelters on its lands a magnificent little military cemetery attached to the civil cemetery of the commune. However, there are 218 young...
read moreCarentan, 1944 : Cross the Taute River
CARENTAN, 1944 Objective : Cross the Taute River Although a first Bailey bridge is installed by the soldiers of the 300th Combat Engineer Battalion, still visible today along the harbour channel near the lock, the crossing of the Taute River by the US Army has to...
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