Battlefields you have visited (1 Viewer)

[Dragoon]

Little Big Horn National Mon. in southern Montana & Fort Kearny ( Fetterman Massacre site ) in Wyoming, just east of the Big Horn Mts.

 

[hoogri]

have now been two times in normandy
on location in the Ardennes
of course the location around Arnhem

richard

 

[uksubs]

Just thought I'd start a discussion on battlefields you may have visited- voluntarily or involuntarily

Looking back, not sure I have actually been to any??? Guess Gettysburg- drive through there all the time, stepped foot on the fields once or twice but never really took the grand tour. Guess we went to some when I lived in Germany but sight were more of battles rather than large campaigns.

Anyone? I know Rob posted pictures a year or so ago of DDay beaches.

Would really enjoy seeing some pictures too- especially of places not so well known- Stirling Bridge in Scotland, Sekighara in Japan, I dunno.

Well Chris I'm in to Bunkers & have been all over the world looking at them & WW2 stuff ,been to all the v1,v2,v3 site in France + Normandy & Belgium , went back to Berlin for the third time & had a look inside a flak tower Jersey has the most bunker in the world per mile I've been told + been to Singapore bunkers as well

 

[lancer]

Do it my friend! I've stood at Serre on the Somme as the sun comes up on the first of July and the atmos just knocks you out, you can almost hear those whistles blow, not afraid to admit i had a lump in my throat. I also walked up Omaha beach when the tide was out, and to this day I don't know how any of those young heroes got off that beach alive. The cemetery above is well worth seeing, very moving indeed. Another of my faves is that railway bridge at Mons where Godley and comrade held up the Germans with their m/gun and won the first VC's of WW1 .

Then there's the nightly last post at the Menin gate in Ypres..blimey I could witter on all night..go visit them Al you'll love it mate!





Oh and I walked on Pegasus bridge...ok shutting up now!!

You're a lucky man, Rob. So the bridge at Mons is still there? Still in use? Amazing! -- Al

 

[jazzeum]

Been to Valley Forge, Trenton (Hessians) and Jockey Hollow (not really a battlefield but Washington's winter encampement, about 10 minutes from my house) for AWI

ACW - Gettysburg (three times).

WW II - Pearl Harbor and Normandy (my favorite).

Sounds like Rob has been to the most!

 

[Rob]

You're a lucky man, Rob. So the bridge at Mons is still there? Still in use? Amazing! -- Al

Yes Al it's a railway bridge still in use , you can walk along a walkway but it's very close to the passing trains, there is a memorial plaque at base of the bridge recalling the VC winning deeds that took place there.

Rob

 

[Mitch]

From Robs posts I think he could be a tour guide (what a cool job that must be). Been fortunate to have visited many and all are special in their own right.

Only one I would really like to visit in person now would be Iwo Jima
Mitch

 

[Rob]

Guys, for any of you planning to visit any of the following: Normandy,Arnhem, Gallipoli or anywhere on the Western front I can very highly recommend Major and Mrs Holts Battlefields guides, with excellent routes and descriptions of the actions that took place where you are stood, each guide also comes with a full colour pull out map that shows you all Craters, pillboxes, VC sites, cemeteries in a way that makes even the most remote site of action easy to find. I have all their guides and they are indespensable

Rob

 

[jazzeum]

From Robs posts I think he could be a tour guide (what a cool job that must be). Been fortunate to have visited many and all are special in their own right.

Only one I would really like to visit in person now would be Iwo Jima
Mitch

Good suggestion. Could help pay for his K & C habit

 

[DMNamiot]

Hi Chris,

Great topic. I have managed to hit a wide variety of sites over the years and hope to see some more in the coming years over here. I have been on Verdun which still looks like a battlefield including UXOs and shell casings and human remains very significant impact when you go there, and the Meuse Argonne as well as parts of the Siegfried Line. Also did a Terrain Walk with a group of officers of the Perryville Battle Field. Bunker Hill. Saratoga, Bemis Farm, Bennington and some other AWI fields as well as some sites from before FWI era and even earlier King Philips War site in my home town. Even a battle site from after the Revolution in the town next over from where I grew up. Used to chase rabbits on it. Sheas Rebellion. Have also been to Ft McHenry in Baltimore Very cool lay out and displays on the War of 1812.

I also maneuvered (REFORGER 89) very close to the site of one of Napoleons better flanking maneuvers that basicly caused the Austrians to surrender down on the Danube River in the neighborhood of Ingolstadt. Also have been along several of the lesser known actions in Arizona where the Indians and the Cavalry fought a running fight of a little over 20 miles from the Douglas Area back towards Ft Huachuca as well as the site where Geronimo gave up. As well as the Little Big Horn.

I also tried very hard to get my wife to honeymoon in the Solomon Islands so we could dive some wrecks off Guadaulcanal. Not able to do it because of the flight schedules only had 2 flights a week in 95 so we opted for Fiji and New Zealand.

We also have visited Culloden in Scotland. Went to Waterloo as well as Arnhem and Nijmengen bridge sites along the route XXX Corps took. Want to take the kids there when they are reenacting it. Still have to get to some of the sites in Spain and Portugal this year. Fingers crossed.

Thats about it I think. Still need to get to some more sites.

Dave

 

[Rob]

Good suggestion. Could help pay for his K & C habit

Funnily enough I have taken small groups of family and friends around Normandy and the Somme Brad, but didn't charge them...but now that I want the Jagdtiger you may have an idea there!

Rob

 

[jazzeum]

Well, I think that would be a wonderful idea. If I get over there again, you would be the person!

 

[Obee]

Being so far from the conflics of the world, in SW of Australia, I've gone out of my way to visit as many as possible.

Ancient: Troy

Napoleonic : Waterloo (of course)

India: NW Frontier, Kandahar, Khyber Pass

ACW: Chattanooga, Shenadoah Valley

WW1:

Gallipoli: Where we went to sites my wife's family members fought in 1915.

Flanders: Hill 90, Polygon Wood, Messines

Somme: This inclused vsiting my Uncle's grave at Villers-Bretonneux, Moquet Farm, Pozieres and Bullecourt where my wife's grandfater was wounded.

WW2: Ardennes, Singapore, Malaysia.

These are all very special to be on the same hallowed ground that so much blood has been spilled.

John

 

[wadepat]

Gentle Friends,

While I have never traveled internationally to battlefields, I have been blessed to visit many in the USA. Among them are:

The Alamo
San San Jacinto
Yorktown
Ticonderoga
Pea Ridge
Shiloh
Vicksburg
Gettysburg
Antietum
First Bull Run
Second Bull Run
Fredericksburg
Chancellorsville
The Wilderness
Cold Harbor
Richmond, Va.
Lawrence, Ks.

I am probably leaving out a couple that do not immediately occur to me, but, as you can see, I have managed to visit quite a number of battlefields. Even so, there are many more I would enjoy visiting.

Warmest personal regards,

Pat

 

[Mister Dave]

Little Big Horn National Mon. in southern Montana & Fort Kearny ( Fetterman Massacre site ) in Wyoming, just east of the Big Horn Mts.

These are both great stops. Also have enjoyed visiting Ticonderoga, Vicksburg, and Killdeer Mtn in ND.

 

[Mister Dave]

Ooops, almost forgot Ft Ridgley right here in Minn.

 

[Partner]

French and Indian War

Fortress Louisbourg, Nova Scotia
Fort Beausejour , New Brunswick (1/2 hour from my house)

ACW

Fort Sumter , SC
Fort Pulaski, Georgia

attached are a couple of photos from the 2008 Emcampment celebtrating the 250th anniversary of the siege at Louisbourg

Regards
Kirk

 

[Mister Dave]

....also just remembered Ft York in Toronto and Sackett's Harbor in NY....

 

[The General]

In 2000 I did the full Gettysburg battle tour and attended the annual 1-3 July re-enactment.


On the same overseas trip I returned to my place of birth and stood on top of Vinegar Hill in Ireland
where the locals armed with pitchforks and such fought the might of the British army.

 

[Currahee Chris]

Hi Chris,

Great topic.

I also maneuvered (REFORGER 89) very close to the site of one of Napoleons better flanking maneuvers that basicly caused the Austrians to surrender down on the Danube River in the neighborhood of Ingolstadt. Also have been along several of the lesser known actions in Arizona where the Indians and the Cavalry fought a running fight of a little over 20 miles from the Douglas Area back towards Ft Huachuca as well as the site where Geronimo gave up. As well as the Little Big Horn.

I also tried very hard to get my wife to honeymoon in the Solomon Islands so we could dive some wrecks off Guadaulcanal. Not able to do it because of the flight schedules only had 2 flights a week in 95 so we opted for Fiji and New Zealand.

We also have visited Culloden in Scotland. Went to Waterloo as well as Arnhem and Nijmengen bridge sites along the route XXX Corps took. Want to take the kids there when they are reenacting it. Still have to get to some of the sites in Spain and Portugal this year. Fingers crossed.

Thats about it I think. Still need to get to some more sites.

Dave

Thanks!! BTW- Would that REFORGER jaunt have been covered by the American Taxpayer?? I also didn't realize Huachuca had that kind of history around it. And Culloden sounds great- never been to Scotland but it's on my "bucket list". I've been to Ft. McHenry too so I got that one covered

Thanks for the pictures Partner

Sounds like we are quite a battlefield touring group. Guess the year I spent on the "Z" (DMZ between the Koreas) could sort of count?? Maybe??? Guess I am green with envy here- my crew moans and complains with battlefields.

Somebody expressed some erie sentiments with Verdun (I think)- these Hallowed grounds do have a special feel to them- Gettysburg has that affect too.