El Alamein - have a look

2006-07-13 05:10:06

#1

Flonster: Karma Ratio whore; +178|6971|-removed you know why- mod

the 2nd round in my "what it looks like in real"-series

enjoy

https://www.islandfarm.fsnet.co.uk/List%20Of%20POW%20Camps/El%20Alamein%20map%20WM.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/90/Montgomery_watches_his_tanks_move_up.jpg

General Bernard L. Montgomery watches his tanks move up. North Africa, November 1942

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/Elalameinminefield.jpg

German soldier while working on a mine-sign at El Alamein.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/El_Alamein_1942_-_British_tanks.jpg

El Alamein 1942: British tanks move up to the battle to engage the German armour after the infantry had cleared gaps in the enemy minefield

El Alamein 1942: British infantry advances through the dust and smoke of the battle

El Alamein 1942: British Matilda tanks move forward at Tobruk

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Alamein2.jpg/800px-Alamein2.jpg

Commonwealth War Cemetery, El Alamein, Egypt

The Panzerjäger-Abteilung 39 (part of "Kampfgruppe Gräf", part of the 21. Panzer Division) of the Afrika Korps on the move.

https://www.libraries.psu.edu/maps/photo/5-Tobruk.jpg

https://www.kki.pl/piojar/brygad/brygad/tobruk/tobruk2.jpg

Arty

https://www.axishistory.com/fileadmin/user_upload/i/it-cv35-flame-tobruk.jpg

CV35 L-3 flamethrower tank at Tobruk 1941

https://www.ilduce.net/foto/Galleria%20guerra/guerra30.jpg

https://www.euronet.nl/users/wilfried/ww2/network/alamein.gif

British tanks of 8th Army go forward at El Alamein.

https://www.parcodelleemozioni.com/El_Alalamain/IMAG003A.JPG

Vehicles used in the Battle

https://www.parcodelleemozioni.com/El_Alalamain/IMAG007A.JPG

https://www.parcodelleemozioni.com/El_Alalamain/IMAG010A.JPG

https://www.parcodelleemozioni.com/El_Alalamain/IMAG019A.JPG

https://www.parcodelleemozioni.com/El_Alalamain/IMAG024A.JPG

https://www.parcodelleemozioni.com/El_Alalamain/IMAG020A.JPG

https://www.constable.ca/stukasoverdesert.jpg

https://www.constable.ca/260sqdnkitties.jpg

https://www.constable.ca/me109g6glycol.jpg

https://www.constable.ca/halfayapass.jpg

https://www.constable.ca/260sqdnpilots.jpg

Pilots of 260 Sqdn. Left to right are: FLt Edwards, FO Fallows, PO England, PO Sheppard, FO Thornhill and F/Sgt Brown.

https://www.constable.ca/hurricanestrafing.jpg

regards, Flonster

Last edited by Flonster (2006-07-13 05:11:06)

2006-07-13 05:13:23

#2

liquidat0r: wtf.; +2,223|7051|UK

waht does El Alamein have to do with BF2?

2006-07-13 05:13:38

#3

Barrakuda777: Member; +86|7160|Somewhere near a shrub or rock

My Grandad helped clear a path through the minefield there...

2006-07-13 05:16:55

#4

Flonster: Karma Ratio whore; +178|6971|-removed you know why- mod

liquidat0r wrote:
waht does El Alamein have to do with BF2?

everybody know this Map in BF 1942! i thougt it was a good idea to put the real stuff in here.

Last edited by Flonster (2006-07-13 05:17:34)

2006-07-13 05:20:51

#5

Vilham: Say wat!?; +580|7190|UK

Barrakuda777 wrote:
My Grandad helped clear a path through the minefield there...

what regiment? all i know is my Grandad was in an engineer regiment that had to go forward and clear the paths through the minefields, i dont think he ever told me which one and now its a bit late to ask, he also had to drive a bedford up and down a run way to set off any mines that the germans may have lain when they left .

2006-07-13 05:23:09

#6

Cybargs: Moderated; +2,285|7140

should be in not bf2 and not bf2s section

https://cache.www.gametracker.com/server_info/203.46.105.23:21300/b_350_20_692108_381007_FFFFFF_000000.png

2006-07-13 05:24:36

#7

liquidat0r: wtf.; +2,223|7051|UK

Flonster wrote:
liquidat0r wrote:
waht does El Alamein have to do with BF2?
everybody know this Map in BF 1942! i thougt it was a good idea to put the real stuff in here.

BF2

anyway... nice post

2006-07-13 05:38:53

#8

Barrakuda777: Member; +86|7160|Somewhere near a shrub or rock

Vilham wrote:
Barrakuda777 wrote:
My Grandad helped clear a path through the minefield there...
what regiment? all i know is my Grandad was in an engineer regiment that had to go forward and clear the paths through the minefields, i dont think he ever told me which one and now its a bit late to ask, he also had to drive a bedford up and down a run way to set off any mines that the germans may have lain when they left .

Engineers, within the desert rats. (dont know the group etc.. but they sound like they were doing a similar job tbh.... he drove a dozer and was an engineer)

He went everywhere during the war, its damned impressive, i have all his documents from his career and its really intresting. He was one of the first in on the Normandy landings as well.... there are some footage reels of a house on a beach as the brits were landing ... he was inside the house having a bacon sarnie!

You can request service records from the MOD.. worthwile and very intesting to see what the "quiet old fell" did when he was a kid!

Kooda

2006-07-13 06:18:23

#9

broncobullfrog: Extra Tender Juicy SPINY; +58|7175|The 70's

Vilham wrote:
Barrakuda777 wrote:
My Grandad helped clear a path through the minefield there...
what regiment? all i know is my Grandad was in an engineer regiment that had to go forward and clear the paths through the minefields, i dont think he ever told me which one and now its a bit late to ask, he also had to drive a bedford up and down a run way to set off any mines that the germans may have lain when they left .

My father was an engineer too!, Royal Engineers I think. He landed on D-Day+5, he laid and repaired roads and bridges. Got some great photos of him and his mates getting drunk on 'liberated' wine after crossing The Rhine.

He always said that the most fighting he did in the war was in Oxford, against the G.I's.

2006-07-13 08:05:11

#10

Barrakuda777: Member; +86|7160|Somewhere near a shrub or rock

Apparantly my grandad saw a bit more, he was in a squad wiped out to within 2 men... I did not get to ask him too much about it and my dad said he did not like to talk about it much.
Sound like he saw things that nobody should ever have to, he was one of the guys who had the unfortunate tasks of liberating a concentration camp, as he was a dozer driver he wound up having to dig / fill one of the large pit graves.

Glad that better men went before me to do things i would not have liked to!

I will be glad if the only warfare i ever see is through my 17" monitor.

Kooda

2006-07-13 08:18:32

#11

jkohlc: 2142th Whore; +214|6950|Singapore

might be cool if BF2 made that with USMC vs MEC...meh....vehicle and sniper wars in that empty big map...

2006-07-13 08:23:32

#12

Flaming_Maniac: prince of insufficient light; +2,490|7131|67.222.138.85

Can you do Jalalalalalalabad next?

2006-07-13 09:47:54

#13

kontrolcrimson: Get your body beat.; +183|7252|Australia

i cant get my grandas records, they are still classed as classified.

2006-07-13 09:51:04

#14

_NL_Lt.EngineerFox: Big Mouth Prick; +219|6955|Golf 1.8 GTI Wolfsburg Edition

wasn't it the 7th Armored in El Alalamein instead of the 8th

2006-07-13 09:56:23

#15

Pvt.Kosak: Member; +125|7010

kwl

2006-07-13 10:02:54

#16

C.Schaffer: Member; +19|7022|Sweden

I SO wanted to visit that museum when I was in Egypt:(
nice pics btw:P

2006-07-13 10:06:48

#17

C.Schaffer: Member; +19|7022|Sweden

jkohlc wrote:
might be cool if BF2 made that with USMC vs MEC...meh....vehicle and sniper wars in that empty big map...

hm well there is, I have one, downloaded it from somewhere, "mrBurns" the creator of the map called him self I think....:S

anyway its really cool, HUGE!!!

2006-07-13 11:14:18

#18

Vilham: Say wat!?; +580|7190|UK

Yeah dont think it could be the same unit, he was in italy when d-day happened, was with monty for most of the war i think.

2006-07-13 11:18:06

#19

wahjot: Member; +30|7009

liquidat0r wrote:
Flonster wrote:
liquidat0r wrote:
waht does El Alamein have to do with BF2?
everybody know this Map in BF 1942! i thougt it was a good idea to put the real stuff in here.
BF2

anyway... nice post

it was in desert combat and bf2's gameplay is very similar to that mod

Last edited by wahjot (2006-07-13 11:18:14)

2006-07-13 13:14:30

#20

alpinestar: Member; +304|7020|New York City baby.

not only desrt combat its available for bf2 too you can download it somewhere

2006-07-13 13:48:04

#21

Wasder: Resident Emo Hater; +139|7099|Moscow, Russia

Okay, now Karkand 2006 pics please.

2006-07-13 15:55:01

#22

Swayin: 3-shot SVD specialist; +29|6950|Bellingham, WA

wasn't that the battle where the Black Watch bagpipers piped the kiwis through the minefield during the night barrage. My God, the stones to march through no-mand-land armed only with a set of pipes.

2006-07-13 16:08:09

#23

Capt_Flapjack: Member; +12|7179|Kansas City, MO, USA

Cool! All the old pictures are pretty tight. I love WWII history.

@all the people who are complaining that it isn't about BF2. Suck it up. This dude did some homework and got us a pretty sweet little history lesson. I loved it. I am truly sorry that you smacktards have to degrade it.

2006-07-13 16:16:24

#24

THA: im a fucking .....well not now; +609|7195|AUS, Canberra

moved

2006-09-21 16:06:02

#25

Flonster: Karma Ratio whore; +178|6971|-removed you know why- mod

thanks

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