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Military Museum Attractions In Guillemont

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Guillemont Road Cemetery

Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial

La Coupole

Musee Somme 1916

Parc du Marquenterre

Cap Blanc Nez

Chateau de Pierrefonds

The Battle of Guillemont was an attack by the Fourth Army on the village of Guillemont. The village is on the D 20 running east to Combles and the D 64 south-west to Montauban. Longueval and Delville Wood lie to the north-west and Ginchy to the north-east. The village was on the right flank of the British sector, near the boundary with the French Sixth Army. The Fourth Army had advanced close to Guillemont during the Battle of Bazentin Ridge and the capture of the village was the culmination of British attacks which began on 22/23 July. The attacks were intended to advance the right flank of the Fourth Army and eliminate a salient further north at Delv...
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Military Museum Attractions In Guillemont

1. La Coupole Saint Omer
La Coupole , also known as the Coupole d'Helfaut-Wizernes and originally codenamed Bauvorhaben 21 or Schotterwerk Nordwest , is a Second World War bunker complex in the Pas-de-Calais department of northern France, about 5 kilometres from Saint-Omer, and some 14.4 kilometers south-southeast from the less developed Blockhaus d'Eperlecques V-2 launch installation in the same area. It was built by the forces of Nazi Germany between 1943 and 1944 to serve as a launch base for V-2 rockets directed against London and southern England, and is the earliest known precursor to modern underground missile silos still in existence. Constructed in the side of a disused chalk quarry, the most prominent feature of the complex is an immense concrete dome, to which its modern name refers. It was built above ...
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Soldier Monuments in Albert France

Whilst on a visit to the Somme battlefields I stopped off in the town of Albert. As a monument to the soldiers who fought in the battles in the areas during the First World War there are a number of statues have been erected throughout the town. These include a French soldier (in from of the train station), a Scottish piper, an Australian and a British 'tommy' (around the Place d'Armes) and a German soldier (in the Jardin Public Arboretum).

The backing track was created using Garageband with the musical loops Courier Strings, Longing Strings 02 and Skyline Piano.

Teaser Soirée MONSTER le 8mars 2012 au James Hetfeeld's Pub à Paris

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