Jo and Calum - France 2015: France 2015 - Day 2

After a great sleep we awoke with a plan, or route to follow. However before we'd even reached our first destination we spotted these outside the Normandy Tank Museum.

"Do you want stop" Jo asked .... Hell Yeah!!!

We were going to go here but later in the day. But that was before We'd seen real tanks and stuff with re-enactors.

The Normandy Tank Museum is located on the site of the first Allied Advance Landing Ground – the A10 Airfield.. This temporary aerodrome, opened on June 19, 1944, welcomed not only air support and ground attack fighter-bombers but also transport and combat support observation aircraft.

This airfield was located close to the famous RED BALL EXPRESS ROUTE which was a road convoy system used to transport ammunition, fuel, food and all the necessary equipment from the rear to the fighting front – the French rail network had been all but destroyed by Allied bombing).

The location of the A10 Airfield at a place called “La Fourchette”, was a few kilometres from the junction of the American armies which had landed on Utah and Omaha Beaches.

The museum has mainly American vehicles with the main display centred on a armoured column.

Finding re-enactors and 6 restored Shermans, a M-10 tank Destroyer and various other US World War II vehicles was a real bonus

Ma Duce on a M4 Sherman

M 10 Tank Destroyer

Before they moved off we had time to look inside the museum

Who doesn't love a Quad 50.

M24 Chaffe

This German Panzer IV is a relic of the fighting in Normandy in June/July 1944. it has been as it was when it was destroyed in 1944 by Allied tanks. It belonged to the 2nd SS Panzer Division.