Salut,

Y a-t-il des personnes qui vienne à Bastogne le Week-end du 16&17/12/06.

Vétéran et membre du site ?

SORRY,

Hello,


There are people who comes to Bastogne the Weekend from the 16&17/12/06.


Veteran and member of the site?

Yup Me !!

And Me, I'll be there for the Historic Walk on Saturday. I already signed in.
Organized by a Belgian (!) WW2 - 3rd Army veteran, my friend Maurice L. Sperandieu.
How to sign in ... ? It's on my site in the News Section.

Not signed in yet, but I plan to be there too

Hi FIWI and linda

I will be along walk with my club for reconstitutions for the walkers ...

I will do the short walk with friends and their little kids.
WW2 History education starts with the youngsters !

FIWI

Our unit is thinking of participating in the walk. Can you provide us details on how to sign up?

Thanks

Tom

Here is the map : http://marche.jemesouviens.fr/productssimple0.html

Here is the website but I've only found the french one : http://marche.jemesouviens.fr/

But you can send a mail to the organisator Mr Sperandieu.

About Bastogne I'll be there with some of my friends on the saturday, and we have the choice between making this march or take part to the vehicles convoy, we'll see.

It's easy Tom,
check the details on my site in the News/Updates section.
There is an e-mail, phone, website... everything you need.
Let me know if it worked out easily

I will be there too and probably that I will sleep with the barracks of Bastogne.

Can somebody give me the program of Week End?

If you have it!

Hi, only in French : Program

Hi,

Thank you for information,

I will be it and into full with form.

For information I speak French.


PS: Did you receive my 2 messages?

Salut Iceman, oui !
I'll send those as soon as I can, a little too busy as always here...
Beaucoup de travail, j'y reviens...

Thank you FIWI for the infos that you gave me.

That gave me great pleasure.

FIWI

Looks like a several of us from Chievres AB will definately be taking part in the walk. Not sure how many of our unit will be there, but we have opened it up to our Air Force counterparts on SHAPE. We haven't decided on the distance but are leaning towards the 14 or 20K hikes. Do you know where you will be? Looking forward to it and hope to see you there!

Tom

PS

Hope to meet others from the site as well!

Probably leaving at 6-6:30, arrival about 8:30-9... Then the short walk after linking up with my friend, wife and kids.... Somthing like that, I heared about a ceremony in the afternoon, I guess at McAuliffe square...

Filip, Do you know if there are any ceremonies on Sunday? The only thing that I know of is a service in the church of Noville.

OK FIWI, one will be seen on place MCAULIFFE

Hello STEVE, yes it there with festivities all the Weekend.
I you sending the program by email.

Filip

Hope to see you all there. Our (unit's) plan is for everyone to wear our organizational (black) cap with our squadron emblem on it.

Tom

great !
the program of the week-end must be on www.bastogne.be, by I'm affraid only in French. I don't know if 1CLC Iceman sent ya something useful ?

I have a knowledge which works with the tourist bureau .

Thus I will receive the infos here soon if all is well.

Details events of Week End.

Anyone,

Is the walk starting in Bastogne? Town center?

Tom

It starts at the commercial center on the road leaving the town to the Mardasson, you have to enter a hall in the middle of the parking for the registration.
Just follow the green guys!!

Thanks Radar. We are planning on pre-registering. I have 10 people from my unit signed up so far.

Hope to meet you there if not sooner!

Tom

Filip

It looks like we will have 31 folks from the SHAPE/Chievres Air Force communities participating in the walk. I signed us all up today. Hope to see you there!

Tom

Hey Major Blaze, I think this will be possible , I'll be there by 8:30 - 9:00 I guess, and in the afternoon on MC Auliffe square

Filip, I will be looking for you. We plan on departing Chievres around 6 AM and meeting up with our group from SHAPE. We too should arrive in Bastogne around 8:30 or 9.

So far everyone is highly motivated and looking forward to the march!

Tom

Tom, that's terrific participation. Good for you and your people. I hope someone takes lots of photos. And I sincerely hope the weather is not as bad as it was in '44!!! Have a great event! BK

I echo BK on this. Make sure you take lots of photos to share with us.

BK/Alan

We certainly will photo document our time, but I will need to figure out how to post them here. I am a bit of a novice I guess. I also have numerous pictures from many sites and events we have seen during our tour here. My family enjoys visting historical loactions and fortunately my squadron is very active in rememberance ceremonies. We also do what we call a annual "Battle Staff Tour". The unit rents a coach to take the members on a field trip per se. Two years ago we followed Operation Market Garden and last year we went to Normandy. Also, as part of a familiarization flight we flew over the Normandy coastline. One of my favorite pictures is of Pointe Du Hoc from the air.
In honor of our air force heritage our unit's conference room is named after a B-17 enlisted crewmember whose aircraft was shot down over our base in "44". He was the only survivor and taken prisoner by the base garrison. We were priveledged to have him return for the dedication. We also take part in a wreath laying ceremony about 6 miles from the base where another B-17 crash landed. It is wonderful being part of a unit that appreciates and honors the sacrifices made by our countrymen.


Tom

http://s66.photobucket.com/albums/h256/rad...astogne%202006/

Here are a few pictures I took saturday at Bastogne, they're not so good because of the weather sorry.

MASH

Thanks for the pictures. Reminds me of the fun time we had. Were you serving the gluhwein?

Tom

I was there too, I walked the 17 km.

Here's my pictures

http://s18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/lin...6%20dec%202006/

Glad I bumped into some of you, glad to see all y'all again !

Well if my computer stops acting like a dinosoar I will look at the photos. Its sounds like you all had a good visit. One of these days I am going to get over the sea so I can see all of the beauty first hand. Thanks for sharing
Cindy

Well my pc started working better so I could look at the photos. Very nice. Linda you havesome amazing photographs in your photobucket, Thank you very much for sharing them. Filip sent me some in the email and now I will go back and look at the others Thanks everyone for sharing your day

Nice pictures Linda.

Wish we could have met you there, but it looks like you were quite a way ahead of our group. However we did get to meet up Filip. Always a pleasure speaking with him.

Tom

Not at all, I was only drinking it

A truly ambitious event. Good for you all! Imagine had there been snow on the ground!!! I believe I'll come down on the cautious side and visit the Ardennes in more temperate weather than winter, although I'd always envisioned the area blanketed in snow. Thanks for all the photos, everybody. BK

Hope to see other WBG members in Bastogne today for the annual walk.
I am on just about on my way (0430) to warm up our Unit's transportation. There are over 40 USAF personnel from SHAPE/Chievres participating in the event. Looks like we will have mild but cold weather. Should be a memorable day!

Some members will be wearing our squadron (309th AS) baseball caps. Say hello if you see us!

Tom