Today we went to the Audie Murphy Memorial and museum outside of Colmar France. In the afternoon we drove through the Black Forest of Germany. A busy day but fun. Here are a few pictures.
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| Black Forest |
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| Traditional Black Forest Dress. |
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| Black Forest building |
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| The Black Forest in Germany is where the Coo-Coo Clocks are made. |
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| Train Trestle |
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| Black forest Town |
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| Water powered say cut log into 8 equal pieces. |
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| River in the Black Forest |
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| Audie Murphy was on a burning tank, down by those trees facing this way. |
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| 4 German tanks and 250 Germans were coming from this village. It was January and around 0 degrees, Audie said he wouldn't get down because the burning tank was warm. He was wounded twice with all his men safe in the forest behind him. He Kicked some serious butt and held the Germans off while help was coming. He received The Congressional Medal of Honor in June 1945. |
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| The plaque at the Memorisal |
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| French village |
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| Audie Murphy won the CMA in a series of battles called The Colmar Pocket. This is a memorial for the Colmar Pockset Battles. |
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| From the museum |
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| Those sneaky Germans had glass land mines that could not be detected with metal detectors. They were made by the ACME land mine company |
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| French Village |
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| Colmar vinyard |
THREE DIFFERENT GRAPES GROWN IN THAT AREA
Great pictures. I love Audy Murphy.
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