Ghost Army: The Inflatable Tanks That Fooled Hitler
OVERLORD II RPISODE 10 DOWNLOAD
Right click here to download (iTunes version with pictures) Next year, 2019, will be the 75th anniversary of the landings at Normandy so this may be a particularly good time to commemorate this moment in history with a trip along the Liberation Route. Gary’s journey ended in Berlin at the Allied Museum. It was the longest single battle the American Army has ever fought. This battle preceded the Battle of the Bulge and has been largely eclipsed by it. While in the area he visited a couple of concentration camps and took part in the moving ceremony at Nijmegen, the Sunset March.Ĭrossing into Germany, Gary visited the site of the bloodiest battle for the Americans during the liberation, the Battle of Hürtgen Forest. He proceeded then up into the Netherlands where Operation Market Garden (A Bridge too Far) happened. Gary’s trip was ordered in more geographic order than chronological so his next stop was Bastogne and the Ardennes Forest in Belgium where the last German counter-attack happened around Christmas in 1944, commonly known as the Battle of the Bulge. In addition to the cemeteries there (both Allied and Axis), there are multiple museums that tell the story of the invasion from different points of view. One of the most familiar parts of Gary’s trip was a visit to the Normandy beaches and the towns of Normandy. In addition to having a good D-Day museum, they also have a long tapestry called the Overlord Embroidery which documents the invasion in the same way that the Bayeux Tapestry documented the invasion of England from Normandy in 1066. London was where the invasion was planned.įrom there he headed down to Portsmouth where much of the invasion fleet left from.
Gary started in London with the Imperial War Museum and the Cabinet War Rooms. This is ‘Saving Private Ryan’, ‘A Bridge Too Far’, ‘The Battle of the Bulge’ which most people don’t realize all took place in an 11 month period: June ’44 to May ’45.” Most people are familiar with this from the various movies because this was the part of the war that the Americans were involved in. So we are talking about sites that deal with 19. What it is is a consortium and a collection of sites that are dedicated to the history of WWII, in particular, the liberation of Europe. Gary says the Liberation Route is “relatively new. Hear about travel to some of the WWII sites in Western Europe as the Amateur Traveler talks to Gary Arndt from about the Liberation Route.
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