Tours Battlefields With Bride By Bike

[Buggy Man]

Good example of their construction (and disassembly ) here

"Ran When Parked" -or- "That'll buff out"
Matt

[Buggy Man]

Yes Cam the STUG III along with the Panzer IV were the only two AFVs that were still in service with the Germans at the end of the war from the 1930s. This is to say that there weren't any older designs that survived to the end just that the two (STUG III & Pz IV) were the only ones kept in production, continually improved & updated and in service with front line units 'till the end.
Matt

[AFV_enthusiast]

Thanks for posting these.

[BrenGun]

Anyone have the link to these? I've tried searching and they don't seem to want to come up in a Google search of the LIFE archives.

[REG]

Googgle Ernest Kreiling in 'images' and you get a stack more - not that many more vehicle shots, though

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&pq ... a=N&tab=wi

[Ted-Ber]

Marainviller currently, please link street view: 1. https://www.google.com/maps/@48.5900964 ... 2?hl=pl-PL
2. https://www.google.com/maps/@48.5912807 ... 2?hl=pl-PL
You can read descriptions of several of the photos on pages 136 - 141 in the - https://books.google.pl/books?id=UkgEAA ... ng&f=false
Sergeant Ernie Kreiling trip was made with a book in a backpack or in hand: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/ite ... bc73dace33
Photo at Fort de Manonviller + other - http://images.google.com/hosted/life/d2 ... 2c794.html
The Fort is currently on Google maps and in photos - https://www.google.com/maps/place/Fort+ ... 1?hl=pl-PL

[Ted-Ber]

Recognized places and situations - comments: 1. https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=35 ... 9192233976
2. https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=35 ... 9192233976
3. https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=35 ... 9192233976

[alpino]

Thank you for these amazing photos
It must be a trip to go to your battlefields so soon after the war
was she American, German, French?
I hope she took the pain away

[Ted-Ber]

You can read a lot of information here: http://www.redcoatandkhaki.com/blog/bat ... honeymoon/
You can find complementary information on Facebook under - Ernest Kreiling, and for example - https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=35 ... 9192233976

[Hammerhead]

I've seen these photos before but its always fascinating to view them again. The pain on the former soldier's face is so sad. That would be such a DIFFICULT trip for him to take. My Dad, who was a combat Veteran from the fighting in Europe could not even watch war movies when I was a kid much less return to the areas he fought. He didn't even talk about what he seen/experienced until I was entering the Army. What he had been through was truly horrific I found out.