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Here it is folks, my interpretation the the last days in may 1940
On the 25th of may 1940 Lord Gort asked the 50th Northumbrian Mech.Inf.Div. to hold the line between the Belgian cities of Furnes ( Veurne) and Nieuport-La Panne at sea. They were reinforced by some battalions of the Coldstream and Grenadier guards commanded by Gen. B. Montgomery. Holding the line enabled over 100.000 troops to leave the beaches at La Panne and Bray Dunes.
The scene depicts 3 soldiers belonging to the 50th Div( changed shoulder patches, you remember) arriving at the bus stop of the little town of "Adinkerke" near the French border and only 3,5km away from La Panne beach.Belgian civilians are fleeing the advancing Germans . One soldiers points them in the direction of the border in order to make room for more troops arriving.
The soldiers received a complete repaint . The civilians receive a bit of weathering so that they look like people fleeing rather than people going to Sunday Mass in their best cloths.
guy:smile2:
On the 25th of may 1940 Lord Gort asked the 50th Northumbrian Mech.Inf.Div. to hold the line between the Belgian cities of Furnes ( Veurne) and Nieuport-La Panne at sea. They were reinforced by some battalions of the Coldstream and Grenadier guards commanded by Gen. B. Montgomery. Holding the line enabled over 100.000 troops to leave the beaches at La Panne and Bray Dunes.
The scene depicts 3 soldiers belonging to the 50th Div( changed shoulder patches, you remember) arriving at the bus stop of the little town of "Adinkerke" near the French border and only 3,5km away from La Panne beach.Belgian civilians are fleeing the advancing Germans . One soldiers points them in the direction of the border in order to make room for more troops arriving.
The soldiers received a complete repaint . The civilians receive a bit of weathering so that they look like people fleeing rather than people going to Sunday Mass in their best cloths.
guy:smile2:
