Calvados archive have put their occupied photographs online, they are a great selection of pre and post D-Day. Germans in coastal batteries, captured paratroopers, crashed gliders, bombed out Caen but mostly German armour and infantry. http://archives.numerisees.calvados.fr/console/ir_ead_visu.php?ir=7179&target=c10fi263# I have put them all in a table with their links, descriptions and dates etc
Thanks for the interesting photgraphs posted and the professional way the material has been presented. Interesting photgraph of the Japanese officers delegation to the Atlantic Wall.I wondered what the route the Japanese took to arrive in Normandy.The only route I can see as practical is via one of the Japanese submarines into the U Boat bases on the Atlantic coast. It is known that the U Boat crews and occasionally the Japanese Navy submarine crews took R&R at the Chateau de Trevarez just south of Chateauneuf du Faou so the connection into Brittany by Japanese submarines had been established....Trevarez is an interesting place to visit for its estate alone....the characteristic feature being its shade of red brickwork.The place was raided by the RAF in late July 1944,a reminder of the raid being 2 x 250lb unexploded bombs which used to lie at one of the entrances,,,,,disarmed and cut open....caused some damage to the Chasteau but was welcomed boost to the local populastion as the local Gestapo unit were mounting repressive measures in Chateauneuf du Faou searching for the Jedburgh teams.
I am fairly sure the Japanese Officers were either stationed in Germany full time or came in overland.
Direct links. Those Gliders that landed behind German lines http://archives.numerisees.calvados.fr/console/ir_ead_visu_lien.php?m=&ir=7179&id=150502909 267 http://archives.numerisees.calvados.fr/console/ir_ead_visu_lien.php?m=&ir=7179&id=150502882 266 http://archives.numerisees.calvados.fr/console/ir_ead_visu_lien.php?m=&ir=7179&id=150502860 265 http://archives.numerisees.calvados.fr/console/ir_ead_visu_lien.php?m=&ir=7179&id=150502742 259 http://archives.numerisees.calvados.fr/console/ir_ead_visu_lien.php?m=&ir=7179&id=150502724 258 http://archives.numerisees.calvados.fr/console/ir_ead_visu_lien.php?m=&ir=7179&id=150502688 256 http://archives.numerisees.calvados.fr/console/ir_ead_visu_lien.php?m=&ir=7179&id=150502532 248 http://archives.numerisees.calvados.fr/console/ir_ead_visu_lien.php?m=&ir=7179&id=150501009 173 http://archives.numerisees.calvados.fr/console/ir_ead_visu_lien.php?m=&ir=7179&id=150500514 150 http://archives.numerisees.calvados.fr/console/ir_ead_visu_lien.php?m=&ir=7179&id=150499237b 88 http://archives.numerisees.calvados.fr/console/ir_ead_visu_lien.php?m=&ir=7179&id=150502478 55
Assorted Allied wrecks Villers wrecks Calamity http://archives.numerisees.calvados.fr/console/ir_ead_visu_lien.php?m=&ir=7179&id=150498365 Orchard Crom http://archives.numerisees.calvados.fr/console/ir_ead_visu_lien.php?m=&ir=7179&id=150499104 Orchard Croms http://archives.numerisees.calvados.fr/console/ir_ead_visu_lien.php?m=&ir=7179&id=150500248 Llyod wrecks http://archives.numerisees.calvados.fr/console/ir_ead_visu_lien.php?m=&ir=7179&id=150499606 Carrier wreckage http://archives.numerisees.calvados.fr/console/ir_ead_visu_lien.php?m=&ir=7179&id=150499122 Wreck in cornfield http://archives.numerisees.calvados.fr/console/ir_ead_visu_lien.php?m=&ir=7179&id=150499178 DD Front http://archives.numerisees.calvados.fr/console/ir_ead_visu_lien.php?m=&ir=7179&id=150499291 M4 in field http://archives.numerisees.calvados.fr/console/ir_ead_visu_lien.php?m=&ir=7179&id=150499690 M4 Front http://archives.numerisees.calvados.fr/console/ir_ead_visu_lien.php?m=&ir=7179&id=150500175 M4 http://archives.numerisees.calvados.fr/console/ir_ead_visu_lien.php?m=&ir=7179&id=150500193 M4 SS Man http://archives.numerisees.calvados.fr/console/ir_ead_visu_lien.php?m=&ir=7179&id=150500230 M4 Rear, same as with ss man 174 http://archives.numerisees.calvados.fr/console/ir_ead_visu_lien.php?m=&ir=7179&id=150501027 FFly side view 44 http://archives.numerisees.calvados.fr/console/ir_ead_visu_lien.php?m=&ir=7179&id=150498346 FFly on side http://archives.numerisees.calvados.fr/console/ir_ead_visu_lien.php?m=&ir=7179&id=150501178 M4 Wreck http://archives.numerisees.calvados.fr/console/ir_ead_visu_lien.php?m=&ir=7179&id=150504973 A-Car http://archives.numerisees.calvados.fr/console/ir_ead_visu_lien.php?m=&ir=7179&id=150505108 A-Car http://archives.numerisees.calvados.fr/console/ir_ead_visu_lien.php?m=&ir=7179&id=150499159
'Carrier wreckage' is 51 Div from the formation sign - 5/7 Gordon Highlanders according to the AoS. Bois de Bavent footage?