Nuts weekend Bastogne 2024

[housil]

This year was the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge. As we visited the celebrations in Normandy D-Day this year, viewtopic.php?f=16&t=12739&hilit=normandy winter time means driving to Belgium, visiting Bastogne and their celebrations (again).

So I rent a local farm house (AirBnB)

where we stayed the four days.
We visited the Bastogne war museum

where they had reenactment camps outside

Next stop was a nice, little museum where they displayed, what they dug out at the battle sites over here

[housil]

Next day

we visited a WW2 military fair

Note, that guy ask´s €1000 for (allegedly) original WW2 rations

from the fair, we went to Bastogne Barracks where they have a museum but also do tank rides
Display of an WW2 aid station

A German halftrack "Sdkfz 251" what is a IFV nowadays

The very last, still driving German King Tiger (Königs Tiger)

70 tons and a driving eight-eight

A German field kitchen display

the old (1944) train station of Bastogne

Walking down town Bastogne

[housil]

On Christmas 1944, there was a battle at Manhay,
https://www.google.de/maps/place/Geschi ... FQAw%3D%3D
a tiny village where the US troops could stopp the German advance. The fighting's took from Dec 23rd to 26th. Every year is there a reenactment battle at the original battle field with ~ 10.000 spectators

German tank destroyer "Hetzer"

[cavguy]

Excellent pics Housil!!

[jfko6]

My local library book display.