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French WW2 personnel carrier

Laffly V15

I love this quirky little French 6-wheeler from 1939. It’s a Laffly V15T with 4-wheel drive, plus an extra two wheels to get it over lumps & bumps! It had a top speed of 58 kph and was used primary by the French cavalry as an artillery...

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Brown painted fuselage of a WW1 biplane displayed in the Air & Space Museum, Le Bourget

Voisin 10 – Armed to the Teeth!

This is the fuselage, or ‘gondola’, of the rather extraordinary French WW1 Voisin X bomber and gunship. The Voisin X was a two-seat pusher biplane produced either as a night bomber or a gunship armed with a 37 mm (1½”) Hotchkiss cannon and a defensive 7.7mm machine...

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Attraction/Experience
A woman walks down a long brick underground corridor

Fort des Dunes, Dunkirk

Fort des Dunes is a 19th century fort built among the sand dunes at Leffrinckoucke in Northern France just behind the famous beach of Dunkirk. In fact it lies about eight kilometres from the border with Belgium and six kilometres from the centre of Dunkirk, so roughly...

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Military Museum
Rusty brown wreckage of a WW1 tank, set in a concrete display hall. A row of red wreaths are laid in front of it.

Cambrai Tank 1917 Museum

The Cambrai Tank 1917 Museum is built around the remains of Deborah, a British WW1 tank that took part in a major armoured attack on German lines in November 1917. Battle of Cambrai The town of Cambrai in the Nord department of France, north of Paris and...

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Box-like biplane with a short lower wing, large upper wing and no fuselage, just a cockpit and the tail section held on spars from the wings.

Caudron G.III Aircraft

There’s more to this weird box-frame aeroplane than you would imagine. Over 1500 were produced by the Caudron brothers, René and Gaston, in their factory at Le Crotoy on the eastern side of the Somme estuary, from 1913 onward. And it proved to be, despite appearances, tough,...

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A set of short, stubby bronze mortars on wooden bases

French Siege Mortar Models

This is a set of 1/5th scale French siege mortars from the 19th century. They are in the 1,000-piece collection of artillery models at the Musée de l’Armée – Invalides in Paris. Models like this were made for a number of reasons; as royal gifts, as design...

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Maritime Museum
Large model of a 20th century cargo ship in a glass case

Dunkirk Maritime and Port Museum

The Dunkirk Maritime and Port Museum (Musée Maritime & Portuaire de Dunkerque) tells the history of France’s third largest port, its workers, its ships, and its seamen. “Wait! What? Third largest?” That may come as a surprise to some, because to most people, especially anglophiles, Dunkerque or...

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An open top, four seat Citroen P17 half-track car painted in desert brown

Citroën P17 Half-Track

You have to love this amazing car, the Citroën P17 Autochenille (‘caterpillar’ or in this case ‘half-track’). It is exactly the sort of thing I would fully expect to see Tintin driving across the Sahara in, wearing an arab headress and with Capt. Haddock floundering around in...

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