Going to the Ardennes in October - been before and the 'Usual' spots - but would any of you suggest the often missed bits that are hidden gems? Steve
Have just returned from Belgium and spent a day in La Roche en Ardennes, pretty place, well worth a visit. Interesting little museum there as well as a Sherman tank in the village car park and various commemorative plaques dotted round. museum website - http://www.batarden.be/
Look on the CARL online digital library and download a document called "Armour at Bastogne" published as a US Armour study in the 1940-50s. This gives you enough information to follow the route of the 4th Armoured Division to relieve Bastogne. Find the village of Bures and the plaque to 13 (Lancashire) Battalion the Parachute Regiment which, according to its A Company Commander had its toughest fight in the war for that village. The story of the British in the Ardnennes isn't as well known. Find the plywood V2 on the road from Houflaize to St Vith where the foirst V2 was laucvhed in anger - against Paris.
Some of it can be found here ... a tip of the veil (if that's an English expression): http://www.ww2f.com/topic/39225-brits-in-the-ardennes-4445/ Unfortunately my 'old' Brits in the Ardennes thread on WW2talk was lost some years ago.
