Here's a video with the Les KRAPÔs playing at a Criticalmass in Vienna. The beginning of the video is a little bit "slow", the Criticalmass starts moving at around 1:40.
Caption: Troops of the North Nova Scotian Highlanders and the Highland Light Infantry of Canada going ashore from LCI (L) 299 [Landing Craft Infantry], Bernières-sur-mer, Normandy, France, 6 June 1944.
Yes, those are bicycles being taken ashore on D-day. I searched unsuccessfully for a similar photo of my old Militia regiment, The Royal Regiment of Canada, which landed on Juno Beach the next day.
That was neat, sort of cute :) Thanks for sharing. I posted it in the Australian Cycling Forums so hopefully it attracts some further interest downunder.
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Here's a video with the Les KRAPÔs playing at a Criticalmass in Vienna. The beginning of the video is a little bit "slow", the Criticalmass starts moving at around 1:40.
Of course I forgot to include the link :) - here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM3l6P1sYqg
In Rio we have the Orquestra Cyclophonica. Always playing in bikes!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J2vHYjGBcM
this one is awful cute!
Take a look at the second photo at:
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm?source=feature/normandy04/norm_media/print_images
Caption:
Troops of the North Nova Scotian Highlanders and the Highland Light Infantry of Canada going ashore from LCI (L) 299 [Landing Craft Infantry], Bernières-sur-mer, Normandy, France, 6 June 1944.
Yes, those are bicycles being taken ashore on D-day. I searched unsuccessfully for a similar photo of my old Militia regiment, The Royal Regiment of Canada, which landed on Juno Beach the next day.
G'day
That was neat, sort of cute :) Thanks for sharing. I posted it in the Australian Cycling Forums so hopefully it attracts some further interest downunder.
Regards
Andrew
thanks for the links.
kevin... yours doesn't work though!
Oh dear. Our wonderful government took down the photo gallery from their website.
The photo was partially reused here:
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm?source=feature/d-day/media
One can just barely see the bicycles being taken ashore on D-Day.
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