COVID CLOSEDOWN
With the global COVID crisis no tours are running until further notice. I’ve taken the opportunity to relocate and rewrite the website and I will post here many of my previous messages concerning WW2 related trips.
WW2 COLORIZED IMAGES
We create colorized versions of original WW2 images to use on the tours. Here are some examples.
FLORENCE AMERICAN CEMETERY
In August I took the opportunity to visit the Florence American Cemetery, about half an hour south of Florence, It is the resting place of 4,399 American military dead, who died in the fighting from the fall of Rome up to the end of the war. A truly beautiful setting and the staff were very knowledgeable and welcoming. The entrance to…
ANZIO WW2 REENACTORS 2020
Down in Anzio again for the weekend events after the anniversary ceremony on Wednesday. Here are some of the reenactors in the gardens of the Borghese Castle.
WW2 ANZIO ANNIVERSARY 2020
It's January 22nd, Anniversary of the WW2 Anzio Landings and I went down to the Sicily-Rome American Cemetery in Nettuno for the memorial ceremony. The local schoolchildren sing songs in English and Italian and then lay roses on the graves of the fallen Americans. I then walked from the American Cemetery in Nettuno over to the Commonwealth Cemetery in Anzio. The…
MAORIS CASSINO ITALY
I was out on a tour with a wonderful American couple and when we reached the Commonwealth Ceremony in Cassino we were met with the sight of a group of youngsters performing the Maori Haka war dance. They were the descendants of the legendary New Zealand Maori Battalion and had come to Italy to see the places where their ancestors…
THE ARDEATINE CAVES ITALY
The Ardeatine Caves are south of Rome. It was here that 335 Italians were massacred by the Nazis following the killing of 33 SS Soldiers by the Communist Partisans in Via Rasella. The murdered Italians were piled up in the caves and the entrance was blown up by the Nazis. There is a small museum here, and there are the…
DOVER CASTLE ENGLAND
I'm over in England at Dover Castle. Dover Castle is at the closest point in Britain to France. The Castle is the location of the secret wartime tunnels from where Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsey directed Operation Dynamo - the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk.
BLETCHLEY PARK ENGLAND
Bletchley Park is an excellent day trip from London. The train takes about fifty minutes from London Euston and then it is a short walk from Bletchley station to Bletchley Park. I spent about five hours there and still didn't see everything. What I did see, though, was truly fascinating. The impact the codebreakers had on WW2 and on the…
WW2 MONTE SORATTE ITALY
About 30 miles (45 km) north of Rome there is one of the world’s most amazing feats of military engineering. The tunnels inside the mountain were built for Mussolini but were used by Field Marshal Kesselring as Nazi headquarters during the Battle for Rome. The Nazis had around a thousand troops living and working inside the bomb proof mountain. The…