Ardennes Archives - Mechtraveller https://mechtraveller.com/tag/ardennes/ Mechanically-minded travel Tue, 14 Oct 2025 16:16:36 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Gliders over Bastogne https://mechtraveller.com/2020/03/gliders-over-bastogne/ https://mechtraveller.com/2020/03/gliders-over-bastogne/#respond Sat, 28 Mar 2020 15:23:43 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=5994 When the US 101st Airborne* were besieged in Bastogne during the ‘Battle of the Bulge’ in Dec 1944, they were re-supplied from the air, not just by parachute but by gliders too. Until Dr Peter Caddick-Adams mentioned it in his excellent online lecture** on ‘The Battle of the Bulge’ last week, I’d either forgotten that […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2020/03/gliders-over-bastogne/feed/ 0 Museum of War and Peace in the Ardennes https://mechtraveller.com/2018/02/museum-of-war-peace-in-the-ardennes/ https://mechtraveller.com/2018/02/museum-of-war-peace-in-the-ardennes/#respond Fri, 23 Feb 2018 13:01:49 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=3038 The long-awaited reopening of The Museum of War and Peace took place in Novion-Porcien in the French Ardennes at the end of last month, in this 100th anniversary year of the conclusion of The First World War. The French Ardennes has been at the heart of European conflict for centuries, particularly in the 19th & […]

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