Company of Heroes: Eastern Front
Other discussions (Read-Only) => Off Topic => Topic started by: Tiger 131 on September 28, 2010, 06:59:16 PM
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Hey fellow EF players.
Just finished a 2 day tour of the major battlefield and dropzones of the 1st British airborne in Holland. As well as some of the objectives of the American 82nd and 101st. But it was a British tour company so mainly the British areas.
Amazing tour, we visited the Grave bridge, the John Frost bridge in Arhnem, German, British and Canadian war cemetaries as well as several dropping zones and and memorials.
The best part however was the old veteren we had on board. He landed on Sword beach and fought in Hollan and in the Reichswald before being wounded in the knee and evacuated to England.
He had great stories. He told us one when we were standing on a hill near Heelsum, turns out he was part of the unit which seized the hill! He indicated where his unit crossed the river (lower Rhine) under morter and machine gun fire before storming the near vertical hill then densley wooded. At one point he and two mates were seperated and ran into a full German squad, which they ambushed killing them all. He remembers telling his mates to hold fire until they were in range as he had the only automatic weapon. A sten gun, the others had Enfields.
Amazing old fellow, anyway I thoroughly enjoyed this tour and would recommend it to anyone interested. I have the details right here!
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:D oh man, I wish I could be there ( I mean tour, not war )... tell us more, give photos!
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Yes....WE WANT PHOTOS! :D
I'm envious f your tour ;D
In the next years (3-4) I'd like to do the tour of Normandy + Ardennes. :)
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Wish I could see it, but am busy sitting in a nowhere town in Pennsylvania doing pointless school-work.
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Hey everyone.
Using an old PC at my relatives place in Germany. No USB port! So will be a little while for the Holland pictures. But I also did a Normandy tour earlier. And I have some pics from that here.
These are some from Pegasus bridge and the nearby museum.
Enjoy!
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More photos from Normandy and some from the German tank museum in Munster (just because!)
The file names are pretty self-explanetary but I'll expand on a few.
The A7V tank I saw in Munster is a replica, apparently the only surviving example is actually in Australia! Have to look it up when I get back home.
The Mulberry harbour was huge! On the beach is a great little museum which explains exactly how the whole system worked. The offloading platforms were actually set up on posts anchored to the sea bed which allowed the platform to move up and down with the sea. This allowed docking transports to offload cargo at any tide height.
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Beautiful photos! :D
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yay, King Tiger is enormous! :o
damn, I wish I could be there... :'( :'( :'(
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Awesome! Be careful, if that KT's MG-42 misfires...
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I expected the Sturmtiger much bigger... is smaller than the King Tiger.
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The tank Museum in the USA has King Tiger you can go in... Beat that.
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I expected the Sturmtiger much bigger... is smaller than the King Tiger.
It's built on a Tiger chasis, you should expect the "same size" :).
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The tank Museum in the USA has King Tiger you can go in... Beat that.
Bovington Tank muesuem has a working Tiger I.
Beat that!
Hehe, on my 5 day trip to england wher ei travelled with my family from Bradford, manchester, London, etc i Finnished it with Bovington.
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I expected the Sturmtiger much bigger... is smaller than the King Tiger.
It's built on a Tiger chasis, you should expect the "same size" :).
Yes, but considering he was armed with a naval gun, I expected a big frontal chassis ;)
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Thanks fellas, great to have some feedback.
Don't worry I made sure they unloaded the frontal MG!
They had a Patton tank you could enter, that was pretty cool. But Seeme, an open KT? :D Would love to see that! Which museum? Where?
Anyway here is me in the Patton.
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Is that a M47 Patton or a M48? :D
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East Coast USA, south Of Baltimore.I forgot that name, My dad toke my when I was little. But I Remember going inside it. Pretty Neat, very roomy.
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awesome pics, awesome that the king tiger picture gets the most views.
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East Coast USA, south Of Baltimore.I forgot that name, My dad toke my when I was little. But I Remember going inside it. Pretty Neat, very roomy.
Isle of Wight Military History Museum?
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I Don't remeber its name, I will look it up.
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@Newbie.
It was a M48.
More pics!