UNIVEM organized a visit to this very impressive site, located about 80 miles (130km) North-East of Paris. 245 bunkers are spread across the site. We had a warm welcome from the association that maintains the site: the ASW2 (Association de Sauvegarde du W2). Probably their greatest challenge is to keep the weeds out! Hitler’s “Wolf’s…
Present as every year with our friends of the Museum of Armored Vehicles of Saumur, we exposed this year our half-track White M16 MGMC (Multiple Gun Motor Carriage), an anti-aircraft armored vehicle effective and appreciated that had a very long career well beyond the second World war. Designed and produced by White Motor Company in…
UNIVEM participated in this event located at the world famous and historical Monthlery speedway. Built in 1924 by architect Raymond Jamin, under the impetus of the industrialist Alexandre Lamblin, it has been recognized “Heritage of the twentieth century.” The loop, measured on its central axis, develops 2550 meters (8366 feet). A thousand tons of steel,…
It was for one of the “Locomotion en Fête” edition, in 2010, that UNIVEM decided to present a diorama evoking the ground logistics that were organized for the Berlin Airlift of 1948-49. Unquestionably, the Normandy landings of D-Day and the airlift to break the Berlin blockade by the Soviets must be counted among the largest…
Being member of the association also gives the opportunity to participate in big official parades where the crowd is always enthusiast when watching all these vehicles, often spectacular, always historical. Béthunes, Arras, Paris suburbs and even the Champs Elysées are only a sample of the great parades to which UNIVEM has participated and continues to…
An unusual sight : our vintage vehicles in the modern landscape of the Montparnasse railway station in Paris, with the magnificent garden covering the tracks below.
These buildings host the Jean Moulin museum, a historical figure of the French Resistance during WWII.
(Sorry, pictures resolution is that of the time for digital cameras…)
