2020年2月12日 · So while reflecting on the Greatest Generation I thought I would look up some of the amazing vehicles that made D-Day possible. Everyone was involved in the war effort (while this photo is earlier in the war, 1940) it shows a young Princess Elizabeth, aged 14, changing the wheel of a British military vehicle.

History, technical sheets and photos of the Allied and German military vehicles deployed in 1944 during D-Day and the battle of Normandy

2024年11月8日 · On 13 November, the car will be displayed at the His Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Cheshire Awards, embodying Bentley’s ongoing commitment to honouring and supporting the Armed Forces. Bentley Motors has proudly unveiled its latest tribute to the Armed Forces, a one-of-a-kind Bentayga EWB Mulliner, specially designed for Remembrance Day in the UK.

2024年11月9日 · Bentley is taking part with a unique car, a Bentayga EWB Mulliner, which has 80 poppies on its bodywork rising from a map of northern France. Each flower symbolises a broken life. Each flower ...

2024年11月11日 · Our own 3/4-ton Dodge 4×4 with its anemic but unstoppable 230-cubic-inch flathead-six had shipped out from Detroit sometime in 1943 or ’44. Its wartime exploits are lost to history, though it did acquire a bullet hole near the passenger seat somewhere along the line. Then it spent decades in the Norwegian Army.

2019年5月30日 · Thousands of allied forces storm the heavily fortified beaches of Normandy under heavy gunfire. They relied on a variety of armored trucks and four-wheel drive vehicles to maneuver around mines embedded in the shores and obstacles like wooden stakes wrapped in barbed wire. Here are some of the vehicles used during the D-Day invasion.

2014年6月8日 · At least 5,000 of these combat vehicles returned to Normandy last week to commemorate the battle’s 70th anniversary, a huge celebration hosted by the French government and scheduled for visits by...

2024年6月5日 · Monty’s gleaming Rolls Royce Wraith landed in Normandy three days after D-Day in 1944, on the orders of Winston Churchill, to reassure the newly freed French that the Allies wouldn’t retreat....

2025年1月3日 · Paris to Normandy by car. To visit all the D-Day sites I’m going to cover in this 3-day Normandy itinerary, you’re going to need a car, end of story. If you feel pretty comfortable behind the wheel, why not go ahead and rent your car in Paris and drive to Normandy from there?

2019年6月6日 · Die-hard military vehicle enthusiasts have traveled from all over Europe to bivouac in a public park in Normandy to celebrate the 75th anniversary of D-Day. “My jeep was half-destroyed by a...