Normandy landscape gallery

[Bootie]

Captioned 'Falaise retreat', showing vehicle columns on roads
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/Photos/FalaiseRetreat.jpg

[PoorOldSpike]

82nd Airborne drop zone, La Fiere (just west of St. Mere Eglise)
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/Photos/Norm82AirbDZLaFiere.jpg

[PoorOldSpike]

Arromanches
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/Photos/NormArromanchesGold.jpg

[PoorOldSpike]

Aunay-sur-Odon
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/Photos/NormAunay-sur-Odon.jpg

[PoorOldSpike]

Balleroy
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/Photos/NormBalleroy.jpg

[PoorOldSpike]

Bayeux
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/Photos/NormBayeux.jpg

[PoorOldSpike]

Bocage

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/Photos/NormBoc1.jpg

[PoorOldSpike]

Bocage

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/Photos/NormBoc2.jpg

[PoorOldSpike]

Bocage

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/Photos/NormBoc3.jpg

[PoorOldSpike]

Bocage

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/Photos/NormBoc4.jpg

[PoorOldSpike]

Caen
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/Photos/NormCaen.jpg

[PoorOldSpike]

Carentan
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/Photos/NormCarentan.jpg

[PoorOldSpike]

Carpiquet airfield, (west of Caen)
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/Photos/NormCarpiquet.jpg

[PoorOldSpike]

Caumont
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/Photos/NormCaumont.jpg

[PoorOldSpike]

Chambois
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/Photos/NormChambois.jpg

[PoorOldSpike]

The Chambois gap
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/Photos/NormChamboisGap.jpg

[PoorOldSpike]

In the Chambois gap

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/Photos/NormChamboisGap2.jpg

[PoorOldSpike]

In Chambois gap
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/Photos/NormChamboisGap3.jpg

[PoorOldSpike]

Evrecy
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/Photos/NormEvrecy.jpg

[PoorOldSpike]

Falaise
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/Photos/NormFalaise.jpg

[PoorOldSpike]

Gavrus, 10 km south-west of Caen.
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/Photos/NormGavrus.jpg

[PoorOldSpike]

St.Come-de-Fresne (Gold beach)
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/Photos/NormGold0Stcome-du-fresne.jpg

[PoorOldSpike]

River Merderet bridge, La Fiere (west of St. Mere Eglise)
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/Photos/NormLaFiere.jpg

[PoorOldSpike]

Livry
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/Photos/NormLivry.jpg

[PoorOldSpike]

near Livry

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/Photos/NormLivry2.jpg

[PoorOldSpike]

near Livry
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/Photos/NormLivry3.jpg

[PoorOldSpike]

Longraye
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/Photos/NormLongraye.jpg

[PoorOldSpike]

Mortain

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/Photos/NormMortain.jpg

[PoorOldSpike]

near Mortain

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/Photos/NormMortain2.jpg

[PoorOldSpike]

Pontaubalt
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/Photos/NormPontaubalt.jpg

[PoorOldSpike]

Glider LZ, Ranville
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/Photos/NormRanvilleGliderLZ.jpg

[PoorOldSpike]

Sainteny

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/Photos/NormSainteny.jpg

[PoorOldSpike]

St. Lambert-sur-Dives
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/Photos/NormStLambsd.jpg

[PoorOldSpike]

St. Lambert-sur-Dives
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/Photos/NormStLamb-sur-Dives2.jpg

[PoorOldSpike]

Taute river and Vire canal near Carentan
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/Photos/NormTauteRiv-VireCanalNrCarentan.jpg

[PoorOldSpike]

Tilly-sur-Seulles
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/Photos/NormTilly-sur-Seulles.jpg

[PoorOldSpike]

Villers-Bocage
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/Photos/NormVillersBocage.jpg

[PoorOldSpike]

Villers-Bocage
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/Photos/NormVillersBocage2.jpg

[ACSpectre]

All these Pictures are from the town we stayed in on our 2006 trip to France. A small town called Connelles. It is about 100k East of Caen.

http://i874.photobucket.com/albums/ab302/ACSpectre321/France/Paris2006131.jpg

http://i874.photobucket.com/albums/ab302/ACSpectre321/France/Paris2006136.jpg

http://i874.photobucket.com/albums/ab302/ACSpectre321/France/Paris2006137.jpg

http://i874.photobucket.com/albums/ab302/ACSpectre321/France/Paris2006168_edited.jpg

http://i874.photobucket.com/albums/ab302/ACSpectre321/France/Paris2006177.jpg

http://i874.photobucket.com/albums/ab302/ACSpectre321/France/Paris2006178.jpg

http://i874.photobucket.com/albums/ab302/ACSpectre321/France/Paris2006187.jpg

http://i874.photobucket.com/albums/ab302/ACSpectre321/France/Paris2006188.jpg

[PoorOldSpike]

Normandy lane

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/Photos/bocage-norm.jpg

[PoorOldSpike]

Drop re-enactment near Ranville 2009
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub4/Ranville-nrCaen2009.jpg

[Aragorn2010]

Great pictures, POS, it makes one look at the battles in a different way. Did you go there yourself?

[PoorOldSpike]

No mate I found the pics scattered around the net.
I've only been abroad once in my life, a pedal-bike ride from Leicester (England) to Paris and back in 1975 (800 miles round trip over 8 days), but I've never much liked travelling and haven't even been outside Plymouth for the past four years.
The only thing that'd make me leave is if some bird somewhere asks me to shack up with her, I wouldn't mind marrying a rich old American widow and spending the rest of my days relaxing by her poolside in Miami..:)

[Aragorn2010]

Hahaha....well, hope springs eternal, doesn't it? But let me compliment you with the magnificent collection of pictures you posted on this site. I don't know where to look first.

[PoorOldSpike]

Hahaha....well, hope springs eternal, doesn't it? But let me compliment you with the magnificent collection of pictures you posted on this site. I don't know where to look first.

Thanks mate, the trick is to computer-enhance them before posting (darken/lighten/sharpen/enlarge etc) ; I enhance about 9 pics out of every 10 which I post in FGM, hell will freeze before I ever post a tiny grainy dull pic..:)
PS- I welcome feedback all the time on how my FGM pics look on different peoples monitors so I can correct them if necessary, for example most of the Normandy pics in this thread seem a bit too light since I bought a new monitor, shall I darken them slightly?

[Aragorn2010]

You could. It will make them look even more like the pictures made in 1944. But you don't have to, they look fine the way they are. Can you also provide pictures of the city of Narwa and surroundings? I'm thinking of making a scenario about that sooner or later.

[PoorOldSpike]

Feedback needed- which of the two pics below looks best, 1 or 2?

1-
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/Photos/NormSainteny.jpg



2-
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub4/NormSaintenyb.jpg

[Aragorn2010]

I like 1 best, but I'm sensitive to light. Narwa is in Estonia. The so-called battle of the European SS took place there in 1944.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Narva_%281944%29

[PoorOldSpike]

I like pic 2 best because it's darker.
If members give me feedback saying they like pic 2 i'll make all the others darker too.

I'll try to find pics of Narva terrain

[Aragorn2010]

Perhaps dark is best, I'm not a good judge on such matters, I'm afraid.

Thanks for trying to find Narwa pics.

[PoorOldSpike]

Ok i put some Estonia/Narva pics in the Russian landscape thread here-

http://www.thefewgoodmen.com/thefgmforum/showthread.php?822-Russian-landscape-gallery&p=32280&posted=1#post32280

[Aragorn2010]

Thank you very much. Some of those pictures are unbelievable.

[Earl of Grey]

Those places look as if they haven't changed very much in the last 70 years... every time amazing again.

[PoorOldSpike]

Bocage

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/Photos/boc-aerial.jpg



Normandy terrain 1945
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/Photos/Normdy-country.jpg

[PoorOldSpike]

Bocage nr St. Lo 1944

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/Photos/Bocage-StLo44.jpg






caption-"Real bocage"
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/realbocage.jpg

[PoorOldSpike]

PEGASUS BRIDGE

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub4/Peg-map.gif




Pegasus Bridge clockwise panorama in Google Earth Street View-

1- Looking east across the bridge towards Berlin-
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub4/Goo-PegA.jpg

[PoorOldSpike]

2- roughly south towards Caen
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub4/Goo-PegB.jpg




3- bridge ramp on western end looking towards invasion beaches
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub4/Goo-PegC.jpg

[PoorOldSpike]

4- Centaur tank across the road at western ramp-
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub4/Goo-PegD.jpg




5- roughly north towards english channel-
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub4/Goo-PegE.jpg

[PoorOldSpike]

6- pan completed-
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub4/Goo-PegF.jpg




http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub2/pegczb9.jpg