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hans


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My visit to Cambrai.
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The 2nd and 3rd of August I travelled to northen France to visit the battlefield of Cambrai.
It was a impressive experience,specially the visits to the cemetery's.
Took a lot of pictures from the part of the field I am recreating on my dio,learnt a lot about the topography and colours of the ground!
I was also having a appointment  with Philippe Gorczynski,the writer of the book "Following the tanks ',and hoped he would show me the excavated tank "Deborah ".
http://www.tank-cambrai.com/english/home.php

He did much more than that,he took me to the battlefield and showed me much usefull details!
For more than 2 hours whe travelled the fields of Glory,and located the trenches and bunkers.
He asked me not to show pictures of the tank,but I can ashure you it was a great experience to take pictures and touch the real thing!

Hope you enjoy the pics,greetings Hans.

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Very nice Hans, i'm looking forward to visiting Cambrai hopefully in the next year, nearly visited it back in April but didn't have time

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Hans
Many thanks for sharing your photo's. I was in Albert last summer Mametz etc when I get a chance I will put some on the Forum.

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