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19-05-14, 22:58
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The french IGN website has a bunch of aerial photographs taken just after the war. The earliest picture they have of the fields in question, were taken in 1947.
Sommervieu airfield, although abandoned and returned to the former owners, can still be recognized (lower part of first and second picture) "old equipment park" and "new equipment park" have been cleaned of any remaining kit so it seems...and basically both fields look like they did in May 1944. source: http://www.geoportail.gouv.fr/accueil
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19-05-14, 23:06
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The best detail pictures on the IGN website are taken in 1959. They give a good idea of what is presumably Kangaroo field.
As quoted on page on of this thread "in two fields near Bayeux with the camp sited in the protection of a neighbouring orchard"..... What is described as "old equipment park" could easily be called, "two fields" with the hedgerows in the middle. The Orchard is also obvious......apple trees I presume for making "Calvados". The most interesting pics would obviously be those taken in August 1944 as they will probably show vehicles and stores everywhere. I hope the "Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies" in Ontario might have these, but even though they have thousands of pictures available online...I can't seem to find a search option(?). I will try to contact them tomorrow, to ask if they could at least tell me which "boxes" I should investigate. Does anyone have experience with searching for photograps in the LMH archive? http://lmharchive.ca/france/calvados/ Alex
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07-06-14, 02:19
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Today we located the two fields where AWD Kangaroo converted the Priests into Kangaroos. I was there with Alex & friends in my F15A and James & friends in his C15TA in 1CACR markings.
More info and pics after Normandy! Hanno
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07-06-14, 04:55
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