Detling/Military Odyssey

mick.wilson · Post by **mick.wilson** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 7:34 pm

Hi Guys,
Just got back from DetlingÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s Military Odyssey show, it was the first time that 514th had been written in to a battle script and with the commentator starting off one of the largest re-enacted WWII battle in the U.K by telling the thousands of public on watchers about the brave men of the Red Ball Express and there job of supplying the troops on the front line, at the same time our convoy of JimmyÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s pull on to the battle field only to get halfway and start taking fire from a German recon group with a 20mm, the pyrotechnics went great and the first and last truck exploded with lots of smoke, us surviving drivers made a last stand around the trucks until we where overrun by German Halftracks and we where all dead, as the Germans took two of our captured trucks back to there lineÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s, then the British opened up with four 25 pounder field guns supporting an American advance across the battle field.
It was an amazing site to see a working M16 Halftrack firing its quad 50cal at a German plane strafing the battle field that must have been flying 50ft off the ground only to be chased off by an allied plane and then the pursuing dogfight above us, the hole thing lasted about half an hour and was the best and probably the most expensive re-enacted battle I have been in. One problem is I forgot my camera and have no photos (of my own) but I will try and find some for you guys.

The 514th also won the Ã¢â‚¬Å“Best DisplayÃ¢â‚¬Â

dr deuce · Post by **dr deuce** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 5:42 am

WOW that is GREAT.

Did anyone video it by chance?

mick.wilson · Post by **mick.wilson** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 8:24 am

I have found this one, photo of our rear truck taking a hit

But there are lots more to look at on the link below, Set 13 you can see our heroic stand against the German recon group, Set 14 the Allies come in to save the day

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http://www.images2view.co.uk/g/2006/mo/menu.html

Look out for our trucks being used by the Red Army (Eastern front battle)
We covered the white stars with red one's and used them as lend leas trucks.

Mick.

mick.wilson · Post by **mick.wilson** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 3:23 pm

Got some more great photos from our group photographer "Nick Halling".

http://www.nickhalling.co.uk/index2.htm

Mick.

John V Cliche · Post by **John V Cliche** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 9:43 pm

Thank you Mick,
Great pic's
I can't beleive the variety of the vehicles especialy the german armor .
I definitly need to get out more

Thanks again for sharing
John

mick.wilson · Post by **mick.wilson** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 7:38 pm

We have put our Military Odyssey 2006 photos page on our site, great photos from our photographer Nick Halling.

http://514th.co.uk/MilitaryOdyssey2006f.html

Hope you like them

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Mick.