Dodges landing Normandy

Robbo · Post by **Robbo** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 4:16 am

Have a look here:

http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/USA ... h-p242.jpg

Looks like a Carryall about mid-picture - can anyone tell if half or three-quarter tonner?

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 7:06 am

Hi Robbo,

It looks like a 3/4 ton to me. Note the NCO bar on the back of the helmet of the guy in the foreground.

Matt.

rgus · Post by **rgus** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 8:56 am

It is a WC51

Ugg · Post by **Ugg** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 9:21 am

Robbo:

Yeah, there's a Carryall in that group, on the right side, mid way back. It does look like a 51 coming off and a half track in the left corner. BTW, neat picture too.

I believe that's a Rhino barge they're on.

Later

Tony B · Post by **Tony B** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 8:57 pm

Yee Ugg! Congrats on promotion. The rhino was used post D-Day so it would be through the American Mulberry judging from the shipping in the background and lack of post gale wreckage, the shot would be bettween D +4 and D+10 or possibly from the end July to the September 1944.

Ugg · Post by **Ugg** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 4:49 am

Thanks Tony:

I'll still get my own coffee thank you though.

On further checking it out, it seems to be a German POW sitting om the corner by the ramp and a whole group of civys on the right side. Weird

I didn't notice and chevrons on the hemet, but the guy on the beach musta been navy. That's a parka he's wearing and he seems to be cold as his hands are tucked up in his sleeves. BTW Robbo, keep posting those great pictures. I like the water bucket/Jeep pictures.

Later

Robbo · Post by **Robbo** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 3:33 am

Thanks for your replies - my eyes aren't what they used to be.

You can read the full story here:

http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/USA ... ch-14.html

There's a whole lot of WW2 histories on that site if you search around.

Ugg · Post by **Ugg** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 4:36 am

Robbo:

Whose eyes are.

Thanks for the site. A long time ago, a friend had given me a ton of WW II pictures from the PTO. His father was a photographer there. I even had one of the flag rasing on Iwo, from a different angle. Unfortunately, they were all destroyed in a fire.

Some were pretty damn gruesome too.

Later

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 7:44 am

i have quite a few pictures from the pto. i need to scan them and put them on photobucket.com one of these days

Ugg · Post by **Ugg** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 11:08 am

Don't get me started on scaning.

Ever since I switched to XP, I can't get my scanner to work right. I have to go in a round about way to scan things, then they are big ticket files and I can't figure how to resize em. HP ain't any help either as they want me to go out and buy a new scanner cause they don't make software to upgrade the one I have.

Later

68427vette · Post by **68427vette** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 12:14 am

http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/USA ... h-p229.jpg

Tony B · Post by **Tony B** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 12:38 am

Bet he's glad he didn't have a hard top

Robbo · Post by **Robbo** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 2:01 am

Interesting feature is the verticle white stripe down the leading edge of the toolbox plus of course on the bumpers.

Blackout conditions caused a lot of crashes and pedestrian fatalities in Britain prior to D-Day.

Tony B · Post by **Tony B** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 9:05 am

Yes, blackout acidents were a major cause of civillian casualties. There was a TV serious called World War Two in Colour. One shot was described as "London 1941" in the side of the shot was the back end of a 51 or 52 with white stripes. did inform programme makers it couldn't be 1941.

Ugg · Post by **Ugg** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 7:24 pm

Tony:

Wasn't that a BBC thing? Our History Channel runs it every few months. I can never get enough of it. One day I'd love to be turned loose either at the Library of Congress or Smithsonian archives to check all the WW II pic's & film.

Later

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