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Edwin, due to the circumstances here at home I have not been here on the forum for quite a while. I do totally agree with you. As I wrote on Facebook before, amateur relic hunters, or battlefield looters. They are not archeologists but only interested in the E-Bay money, it will bring them. :(

Major Extension of the Route des Crêtes – Sudelkopf Photo Impression! Last spring a good pen friend of La Bresse, Vosges, an expert on historic French railways, send me some rare and very interesting period photos of the Alaska Sled Dogs at le Collet and of the Hohneck Tramway. Later he...

I would like to ask your attention, please, for a new photo impression about a sector of the Saint Mihiel Salient. You may consider this photo impression , as the last keystone in my seven chapters about the salient, which starts with “Les Eparges Ridge”, and which for the time being ends at the...

If you shut your ears for the biased comments of 1964, the images shown in these documentary series are still very valuable. Afterwards many of these scenes were not repeated in later versions of all kinds of later documentaries. I agree with Joe concerning the biased and outdated commentary...

I know Aris personally. If he is the source of any ww1 topic, you can rely on his information! :) If drakegoodman recommends a source, it must be okay! :)

The Dutch government halves it subsidies to the Huis Doorn, the Kaiser's Exile. Its existence is now threatened and it may lead to the closure of Huis Doorn in 2013! Visit the Kaiser's Exile in Holland virtually via my website, http://pierreswesternfront.punt.nl/?id=410295&r=1&tbl_archief&"...

EXcellent, Ron! Thank you for sharing! :D

Dear Friends of Pierre’s Photo Impressions of the Western Front, This summer I visited again the Somme front. After my visit I decided to re-edit some Somme photo impressions with new 2012 footage. I also added new satellite maps, period pictures and some illustrated frames with concise...

Some more Fussartillerie guys: If you are interested, visit, please, also one of their bases in the Alsace Sundgau near the Swiss border: http://pierreswesternfront.punt.nl/?id=553768&r=1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; .

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Badener and Edwin, Thank you very much for your words of appreciation here! :D

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Interesting!

:bravo: Well done, Francis!

I have amused myself a lot with these series of serious or unhappy looking brides. :D But on the other hand there is a serious side to this phenomenon too. Pardon me, for mentioning this here. Anyway, I think to the German morals of those times is was not done for a young lady and especially...

Dear Pickelhaubes Friends, Recently, on 28 April 2012 I had the honour to give a lecture for the knowledgeable company of the members of the Western Front Association of the Netherlands, an association of which I am also a proud member myself. Due to the unexpectedly many questions and...

Thanks a lot for keeping the Forum again online! :bravo:

I don't know if it is helpful for your research for identifying the type of the artillery guns, Daniel, and I am not an artillery gun expert (!), but after some years I recognized the guns in the photo being of the often used 77 mm. type. Perhaps this will put you on the right track? See or...

:bravo: Thanks Ron!