Ardennes 67 years later

Yep, quite nasty plus that there were in places which were supposed to have been cleaned by engineers
 
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Bastogne
This Sherman was knocked out ,after being immobilised due to the muddy terrain, during the Battle of the Bulge at the outskirts of town.After the battle was placed at a major crossroad to remind those days.
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This memorial is dedicated to the fallen soldiers of E Company/506 PIR/101st Airborne Division
the place which they fell is a wooded area near Bastogne and the action is depicted at one of the Band of Brothers episode.There, one can still find remains of foxholes and trenchlines.
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I think this episode it is, unfortunatelly i ididnt note the name of the location so i cant write the actuall name.It is close to Foy according to the memorial.
It resemble much with the series as it is a wooded area divided by a road where the frontline was at 18 of December
 
Panther of Das Reich Division at Grandmenil.
The Panther was found on a field called ''Male Melee'' close to the road Manhay-Erezee.
It was undamaged,most probably abandoned due to lack of fuel.

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Hotton Military Cemetery.
Hotton marks the limit of the German advance during the battle of the Bulge.
From the 667 war burials 340 are Officers,NCOs and soldiers 325 airmen and 1 war correspondand.
527 are British,88 Canadian and 1 Polish.
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It must have been exciting to visit the german cemetery .-
Each tomb has three names?

Each side of the tombstone writes 3 names so i think that 6 soldiers are buried in each grave.
 
Vosenack war cemetery more than 3000 german soldiers are buried there.
Most of them were killed during the battle of Hurtgen forest.
There is also buried,by his desire, Julius Erasmus.
Julius Erasmus was a civilian who had recovered, after the war was finished, the remains of more than 1900 German soldiers which are buried at vosenack war cemetery.


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