Normandy 2014

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Just like in 1994, my truck is featured in print - but in the background!

First picture was scanned from the book WW2 Allied Vehicles by John Blackman. My truck 796 LGU is following DAP 418, another F15A.
Brian Gough believes the majority of the pictures were taken at the 50th anniversary of D Day show on the Common in Portsmouth in early June 1994. Following that show many of those vehicles went directly to the Normandy beaches and more photos were taken there.

Fast forward 20 years; the second picture is a page scanned from the French Tank & Military Vehicles magazine issue August-September 2014. On 8 June my truck 796 LGU was following 248 UYG, Neil Davis' Chevrolet CGT Cab 12 FAT, of which the restoration was finished just hours before driving on the ferry and which had it's post-restoration shakedown cruise in Normandy!

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