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Posted on Fri Feb 05, 2010 7:42 am by webmaster
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Re: Terrain Challenge #25 (Score: 1)
by papa_whisky on Sat Feb 06, 2010 4:31 pm
(User Info | Send a Message) | | Looks like the Loire to me, I haven't found the place yet |
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Re: Terrain Challenge #25 (Score: 1)
by Buck_Compton on Wed Feb 10, 2010 2:35 am
(User Info | Send a Message) | I looked at this photo and right away i noticed the Castle gardens. and the castle complex north of it.. I have checked the Loire river but i coudn't find anything looking close to it. I'm not that familiar with ww2 actions in France. If i had to guess i'd say this is somewhere in central or southern france. Maybe somesort of HQ or a place where germans Kept High Ranking POW or a Location where Agents where kept Hostage??
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Re: Terrain Challenge #25 (Score: 1)
by Chubb on Fri Feb 12, 2010 3:55 am
(User Info | Send a Message) | | I wonder what use this chateau could have been put to - Headquarters for some organisation - SHAEF, OBWest? |
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Re: Terrain Challenge #25 (Score: 1)
by John_vdb on Fri Feb 12, 2010 9:58 pm
(User Info | Send a Message) | | This is the town of La Roche-Guyon, on the bortders of the river Seine. The Castle was the HQ of Rommel from feb 1944 untill just after the landing in Normandy. |
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Re: Terrain Challenge #25 (Score: 1)
by Lestayo on Fri Feb 12, 2010 11:33 pm
(User Info | Send a Message) | La Roche Guyon is where German Field Marshall Rommel set up his headquarters when he was appointed by Hitler to oversee and reinforce defenses along the Atlantic Wall.
During World War II, Operation Gaff was a six-man patrol of Special Air Service commandos who parachuted into German-occupied France on 25 July 1944.
Plans for it were motivated by the role of Marshall Erwin Rommel in preparations to resist the expected Allied invasion from Britain, and at least considered both his death and his capture.
Rommel had his headquarters at La Roche Guyon. The team's orders regarding Rommel were aborted when he was wounded by an Allied fighter-bomber, and they moved toward American lines on foot, while ambushing trains and attacking German units along their route. They reached safety on 12 August. |
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Re: Terrain Challenge #25 (Solved!) (Score: 1)
by Lestayo10 on Mon Apr 11, 2011 4:03 pm
(User Info | Send a Message) | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Roche-Guyon
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