10-06-2017, 15:04
Aries, yes I have visited the Normandy beaches a couple of times which I found very interesting. Being more a war of movement unlike the Great War, Normandy is one of the few places where you can actually see the evidence.
On the contrary, the Great War being more static, the battlefields are littered with remains and evidence particularly on the Somme which remains today, one hundred years on, a mainly rural farming area that has changed little since the Great War. I have trench maps for 1916 and even the woods, the roads and tracks are identical to those found on modern Ordnance Survey maps. Exception of a ring road and a McDonalds of course!
On the contrary, the Great War being more static, the battlefields are littered with remains and evidence particularly on the Somme which remains today, one hundred years on, a mainly rural farming area that has changed little since the Great War. I have trench maps for 1916 and even the woods, the roads and tracks are identical to those found on modern Ordnance Survey maps. Exception of a ring road and a McDonalds of course!