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Romain Bréget - French Battlefields Guide Profile picture
Romain Bréget - French Battlefields Guide
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French Battlefield Guide. Mainly Normandy/WW2 stuff. Booking open for 2025: https://t.co/WEDCx9Qewz
Mar 4 • 18 tweets • 6 min read
#WW2 Chasselay, France, June 20th, 1940. A Panzer IV is opening fire. The target: a group of POW. They are Tirailleurs Senegalais, African Colonial Infantry in the French Army.
This is the most documented massacre made by the German Army during the Battle of France.
A thread 🧵 Image June 19, 1940. The Germans are advancing everywhere in France. Newly appointed Pétain asked for the end of the fighting. But as far as the Army is concern, there is no armistice signed yet. So, many French Army leaders gave order to keep fighting "with no retreat in mind" Image
Oct 10, 2024 • 20 tweets • 9 min read
#WW2 Today, the Litani river area in Lebanon is the scene of fighting and bombardments. 83 years ago, it was already the case between the 🇫🇷French Vichy forces and the 🇬🇧British & 🇦🇺Australian forces. A thread on a forgotten WW2 battle. Image
Image I will not explain here the reasons and context of the Syria/Lebanon campaign of 1941, that would need a lot of explanations. The entire thing was a superb waste that could have certainly been avoided: 10.000 casualties -French (Free and Vichy), British, Australian, Indians.... Image
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Mar 23, 2023 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
#Normandy In light of recent events, the future of tourism at Pointe du Hoc seems more and more uncertain. Some projects were announced by the ABMC, with heavy consequences for visitors and tour guides. A small thread 🧵 Over the past few years, several parts of the cliffs have collapsed. The last one this March being just a few meters away from the visitors path !
Feb 22, 2023 • 16 tweets • 7 min read
#Normandy Pointe du Hoc is one of the most famous story of DDay. Many knows what the 🇺🇸 Americans Rangers have achieved there. But very few know about the 🇬🇧 British who participated alongside the Rangers and sometime, gave their lives. A thread🧵: Lt Col Thomas Trevor, a commando who became Liaison Officier with the US Rangers. He coached the Rangers in cliff-climbing. Landed with them on DDay, exposed himself under fire to motivate the men to climb. Was wounded in the head doing so.
Jul 14, 2022 • 15 tweets • 7 min read
1 / #Normandy, DDay. If you are driving around Bernières-sur-Mer, you might find this monument. The history behind it is not widely known, and fewer people even know that photographs exist of what happen.
A thread🧵 On June 6, Juno Beach, Bernières sur Mer. After firing hundred of shells in their run-in toward the beach, the 14th Field Artillery Regiment, RAC, is landing around 9.25am from 8 LCTs, with priority vehicles of the 8th Brigade. A total of 106 vehicules !