Ardennes Battlefield Tour

Since getting back from the Ardennes I have been shifting through my pictures and trying to work out how I could share these. Although we were only away a week we covered a lot of ground visiting on some days 4 or 5 different locations. This sounds like a demanding schedule, but it really didn’t feel like that. We both just love military history and wanted to pack in as much as we could.

We tried to mix things up covering actions in 1870, WW1, 1940 and 1944. In fact the Ardennes has even more to offer but we just didn’t have enough time to see everything. However, our main target was to cover as much as we could of the 1944 Ardennes offensive. One challenge with this is the size of the battlefield and the complexity of the actions that took place.

This map covers the rough route, but doesn’t include our first stop at Mons or the trips to Montmédy, La Ferté or the Battlefield at Stonne. It really would be a mammoth task to share all the photos so for those not so interested here are just a couple of the highlights. I have then done a shortish video showing a lot more of the trip for those who are interested.

Dinant where the Ardennes offensive fizzled out and where De Gaulle was injured in WW1

La Roche en Ardennes

A Sherman in La Roche

Tiger II at La Gleize 

Tank traps on the West Wall at Hollerath, Germany

Jack’s Wood in Bastogne location for the 506th Airbourne

Battlefield at Schumanns Eck in Luxemburg 

National Military Museum Diekirch

Montmedy Castle

Ouvrage a La Ferte

Battlefield at Stonne

Floing the scene of the cavalry charge in 1870

Chateau of Sedan

Museum of the ‘Last’ Cartridge Sedan

So that is a quick run through and now for those who are keen a short video of our trip

If you made it this far thank you for your patience. We covered a lot of ground in the trip and should anybody else be thinking of going or just interested I would be happy to share my thoughts.

Thanks of course, more games and figures to come soon Matt