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My climb up to Buchenkopf (The Tete de Faux)
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, Aug 09 2009 11:50 AM
Vosges battlegrounds
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Posted 09 August 2009 - 01:49 PM
....ok and another 3 meters - I saw stairways and passages that made me feel lonely w/o the messenger dog and I decided to retreat.
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Posted 09 August 2009 - 02:09 PM
Hello -am I alone here? Is everybody else at the Somme or Flanders?
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Posted 09 August 2009 - 02:19 PM
Still here, my friend. Perhaps if you added "1 July 1916" to your title ...
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Posted 09 August 2009 - 03:03 PM
Another excellent thread from you Egbert.
Looks like you had a very interesting walk, and you may have piqued people's interest enough for them to explore there themselves!!
Thank you for sharing.
Looks like you had a very interesting walk, and you may have piqued people's interest enough for them to explore there themselves!!
Thank you for sharing.
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Posted 09 August 2009 - 03:04 PM
You aren't alone. I have just enjoyed looking at your pics.
How kind of Chester to take you for so interesting a walk!
Bruce
How kind of Chester to take you for so interesting a walk!
Bruce
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Posted 09 August 2009 - 03:12 PM
Great photo's of an area I know nothing about !
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Posted 09 August 2009 - 03:21 PM
Thanks for sharing your explorations, Egbert. Some tantalising photos there. Perhaps you and Gwyn should collaborate on a guide to the Vosges battlefields ...
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Posted 09 August 2009 - 03:43 PM
Thank you for the great photos egbert. As a Somme-addict it is easy to forget there are many other fascinating sectors just waiting to be explored.
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Posted 09 August 2009 - 03:49 PM
Egbert.
Many thanks for the virtual tour. Great photographs, enjoyed by one who can't get to places like this.
Cheers Rob.
Many thanks for the virtual tour. Great photographs, enjoyed by one who can't get to places like this.
Cheers Rob.
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Posted 09 August 2009 - 03:55 PM
Great photo's Egbert, thank you for sharing them with us.
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Posted 09 August 2009 - 04:14 PM
Alright, we shall go on to the peak then.
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Posted 09 August 2009 - 04:28 PM
Fantastic photos egbert.
I bet Chester enjoyed himself!
Best wishes.
Chris.
I bet Chester enjoyed himself!
Best wishes.
Chris.
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Posted 09 August 2009 - 04:44 PM
Between the anticline and the closing mountain peak more and more bunkers grown over by the vegetation are visible. Peppered with heavy barbed wire protection and chevaux-de-frise
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Posted 09 August 2009 - 05:01 PM
...called "Sattelstützpunkt". Gwyn once started a GWF thread on the meaning of the inscription.
Sattelstützpunkt
Erbaut
4. Kompanie Bayerisches LIR 12
Feste Eisen-Schmid
Sattelstützpunkt
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4. Kompanie Bayerisches LIR 12
Feste Eisen-Schmid
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