Noramandy/French Res/train wreck!

Joe,

      It's a good thing the allies had control of the air over Normandy and could stop German reinforcements from reaching the front. Hats off to the French resistance too for blowing up the tracks and wrecking that train load of tanks. I learned from the history Chanel that the Germans only had 100 Tiger tanks at Normandy and they held up the allies from breaking out for months. Good thing they ended up in a ditch or we would be reading this forum in German.

       If you do want to recreate the wreck MTH does make German and French steam era equipment. Just put a few German tanks on some flat cars but it would probably be very expensive.

JohnB

"Only" 100 Tiger tanks ??!!  Probably not that many but I am always leery of those shows, they still have a lot of WW II propaganda in them.

Jim,

   Besides the Tiger tanks there were other types of German armor present in Normandy, Panther and Mk IV tanks were also there both a formative foe for the Sherman tanks used by the allies.

JohnB

There is a long list of German weapons that slowed the Allies walk through western Europe in WW II. You can add the 88 and 75mm anti-gun at the top. I take TV shows on TV with a grain of salt because of BS and trickery.  I doubt if French resistance people would stick around to film a German train wreck.

I've seen that video and it sure looks real to me.  Can you imagine what it must've sounded like?  

Also, as far as speaking German...  if we didn't come up with "the bomb", Russian is a more likely language.  They were truly steam rolling.

I had seen that train derailment video before, in abbreviated form, but this version had most of the train cars derailing with their armored  loads, also at high speed. I felt a somewhat sorry for the train crew, as they were unlikely to have survived that mess. I don't know if that crew would have been French or German.