60TH ANNIVERSARY OF NORMANDIE LANDING
The UNIVEM Paris Ile de France (ex MVCG Paris Ile de France) had set up a camp at Vierville sur Mer. The site was chosen because it is located just above Omaha beach where so many GIs of the 29th infantry division met their death. This celebration being somehow exceptional, our association managed to have 10 vehicules transported to the site, among which a Pacific M26 tank recovery tractor, a Ward La France wrecker, a DUKW amphibious GMC, three armoured cars, and a Dodge command car. Additionally, many members came with their own vehicules.
A huge hospital tent sheltering an operating unit signaled our camp from the distance. The following photo-gallery attempts at describing the main steps involved in vehicules transportation, both ways, and parading with them.
"Thanks to the very efficient help of the "5ème Génie" of VERSAILLES, our vehicules could be transported by rail"
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View of our camp with the huge hospital tent of Jérôme Stevens.
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Our trip to Utah Beach where a ceremony had been organized by Union Jeep Vexin in the presence of a veteran, Miss Jeanett Blair. Other convoys joined in.
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On the way back : at the Bayeux train station, Jacky, Jean-Charles and Christophe tighten the belts to secure the vehicules. A few days later, at the arrival of the train in Satory.
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