Touring the D-Day Battlefields of Normandy in a Jeep Wrangler

Saturday is the 65th anniversary of the June 6th D-Day landings. After covering the 2001 Paris Auto Show Automotive Traveler's Rich Truesdell retraced the "Road to Liberty" route from Utah Beach to Bastogne in a Jeep Wrangler. The trip had more significance than originally planned as it was taken in the days immediately following the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11. If you're a Jeep fan and a World War Two buff you might want to take a look. (Warning...it's a long post, about 4,000 words, packed with links that will take you to websites with even more information about the battlefields and locations visited, great if you're planning a trip to France this summer.)
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tango - 6/7/2009 12:04:31 PM

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Good read. I have a small collection of war movies. Including Saving Private Ryan (best movie ever made) and Band of Brothers. I can't help but watch these movies (where for the first time you see outright fear and not triumphant heroism) and wonder just how these people must have felt. Imagine the terror of seeing the landing craft ramp drop and watching your comrades torn to shreds. Imagine what the pilots went through, flying into pitch dark and having the skies light up with fireworks and explosions. Scary stuff. And then there's the Jeep. Pitty, though that bullshit vehicles like the Patriot (what a crock of shit) are allowed to claim ancestry to this Hero of a vehicle. Oh if history could be re-written...