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JOHN 
I know what made these tracks, do you? Click on the album link to find out.
This is on Gold beach headed towards Arromanches. How would you like to
have climbed these cliffs under fire? Scary stuff.
This is Stewart. He is my good friend Mark Rickard's son. You could not
beat the smile off his face when we put him in the half track and ran down
the beach. That's happy! Mark's father landed at Arromanches on D-Day as
a Royal Engineer. Mark and Stewart along with the rest of his family live
in the UK. This was his first trip back to Normandy for his father's rememberences.
You are lookng at 2 old friends and one great new one. We met Erwin over
there through my business and became fast friends. He lives near Vienna
and was a fantastic guide and host. I owe him a great amount of gratitude
for his gracious demeanor and friendship. He speaks 4 languages and was
our interpreter between the French, Belgiuns, Czechs and his friends from
Austria. A great bunch of people!
This is a very long convoy of near 400 trucks of all types headed from Ver
Sur Mer down the beach at low tide headed for the Arromanches ceremony on
Saturday the 6th of June. The first truck arrived and the last had yet to
even start the engine.
Is this a great picture or what? You would think we staged it. We didn't.
This guy thought he could drive between the caissons. Little did he know
that this is where the sewer water is let out into the channel from Arromanches.
They tried a jeep first, no go. Then they tried a GMC with this tow rope
and the guys help. SNAP! A new nylon tow strap and the GMC freed him, but
what came out with him chased us all back. The stench that came out with
this jeep was nasty. More pictures of this debacle and what ensued on the
album link.
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