Tag: world war ll

ARRAS: Wellington Quarry

by maristravels, posted in Europe - Northern Europe & Scandinavia, Uncategorized, Wars, Battlefields, Prose & Poetry of War

A visit to The Wellington Quarry, which is in the middle of the old city of Arras, reveals a little-known story of World War I and is a good place in which to try and understand the horrors of World War I.

D-Day Landings at Normandy

by maristravels, posted in Europe - Northern Europe & Scandinavia, Wars, Battlefields, Prose & Poetry of War

Omaha is most remembered for the casualties the Americans took there from German machine gun fire that tore into the troops as they tried to sprint across the beach to the seawall. It was a massacre, a terrible loss of life.