GI doing some serious souvenir hunting,asking himself how to get it back home...

Some souvenirs to take home

Scene on Omaha Beach, soon after the landings there; June 1944.

Omaha Beach

Right: Captain Dick Winters standing before the HQ of Col.Strayers in the Netherlands.He was there preparing for a daring rescuemission of British Para's stuck  on the Rhinebank near Arnhem.The mission was succesfully executed on the night of 23/24 october 1944.
Left: Actor Damian Lewis,playing Dick Winters in Band of Brothers ,standing on the same spot 64 years later.