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My grandfather Reuben S. Horst took this photo in Celles, Belgium in 1948.
Celles is a village in the municipality of Houyet in the province of Namur, Belgium. It is also the farthest point that the German Army advanced during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II.
I believe the sign reads, translated from French, Here is where the Rundstedt-Offensive, was halted on December 24, 1944
Today this Panther G tank still sits in this same spot. Here is some information I discovered about the tank from doing a little searching on line.
The Celles Panther was part of the German Army Kampfgruppe von Cochenhausen, 2nd Panzer Division. On 21st December Panzer Lehr battle group was pulled out of the fight for Bastogne and regrouped with 2nd Panzer Division and the 116th Panzer Division Windhund for an assault on the town of Dinant to secure the crossing over the river Meuse. It fought its way through the town of St Hubert and the road to Dinant seemed open. Rochefort was taken on 23rd December 1944.
On the 24th December 1944 the advanced column of Panther tanks approached the junction of the N510 road with the N48. The local story is that the German's asked at the cafe if the road to Dinant was open, had vehicles been using it recently. The staff said it was mined and dangerous so the Panzer V commander decided to go through the fields. This Panzer V Ausf. G was the lead tank. It drove over a mine and was put out of action in the field below the Chateau Acteau.
It was left there for some time after the war. The Americans tested anti tank weapons on it. American Army engineers stripped it to try and make it lighter but they could not get it out of the field. It was during this period that the hatches, tracks and road wheels were removed. The Panther had ejectable hatches, so the crew would eject them and leave them on the ground. The cafe owner Marthe Monrique rescued the tank from the field in 1948 and put in pride of place next to the Cafe called "Le Tank" at the crossroads, as a monument.
A little more on the battle around Celles. When Panzer Lehr resumed its advance to Dinant it ran into the combat command A of the US 2nd Armored Division near Buissonville. On Christmas Day the protective winter thick cloud cover disappeared and the full force of the Allies air power was deployed, bringing the Panzer Divisions to a virtual standstill. The majority of 2nd Panzer's tanks, under Major Ernst von Cochenhausen had become surrounded near the town of Celles.
On 26th of December the rest of Panzer Lehr made two attempts to relieve them but they were turned back by allied fighter bombers. Cochenhausen and 600 or so of his men managed to escape on foot, having been forced to abandon all of the Division's tanks and equipment to the advancing Allies.
Il temporale di venerdi pomeriggio con formazione di una super cella
The storm by Friday afternoon with the formation of a super cell
Intermission at the concert. The moment the lights came on, the cell phones came out. It's a sign of the times.
Who's Calling Me? Series Done at Sunny's maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sunny%20Side%20Up/207/56/1402 Used Pose and Scene Night Owl Bento
Imagine being a teenager and spend here some months, sleeping on that matress and wasting your time in that cell. Ngl, I'd do it.
Cell phone pic!
HaHa - I guess I've entered the modern world at last - now I just have to figure out how to "text" somebody.
These young ladies were standing on a seawall at the Ponce De Leaon Historical Park in Punta Gorda watching the sunset while taking pictures with their cell phones. I was down on the narrow beach below with my camera on a tripod... I swung it around and took this shot. I guess they didn't notice the photographer taking pictures of the photographers... :D
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Abandoned jet engine testing facility. On the "Dirty Garbage Tour" with some good peeps! Save the drama for yuh mama!!
Eastern State Penitentiary
Philadelphia, PA
May 26th, 2014
One of the tops views of Cell Block Seven that is often photographed. I lucked out and got there early enough before anyone else was in the shot
Some info from the E.S.P. website:
"Most eighteenth century prisons were simply large holding pens. Groups of adults and children, men and women, and petty thieves and murderers, sorted out their own affairs behind locked doors. Physical punishment and mutilation were common, and abuse of the prisoners by the guards and overseers was assumed.
In 1787, a group of well-known and powerful Philadelphians convened in the home of Benjamin Franklin. The members of The Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons expressed growing concern with the conditions in American and European prisons. Dr. Benjamin Rush spoke on the Society's goal, to see the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania set the international standard in prison design. He proposed a radical idea: to build a true penitentiary, a prison designed to create genuine regret and penitence in the criminal's heart. The concept grew from Enlightenment thinking, but no government had successfully carried out such a program.
It took the Society more than thirty years to convince the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to build the kind of prison it suggested: a revolutionary new building on farmland outside Philadelphia."
For More info: www.easternstate.org/learn/research-library/history
Prison
Find the whole series here: www.behance.net/gallery/85412829/Dissident-Detainment
Cell 3. Lit from under the walkway. Idea stolen from Muddy. Also lit inside the exhaust or whatever it may be.
A Pixel 3 cell phone running Android 9. For 2019: one photo each day (9/365) and 119 pictures in 2019, #92 "Something you take for granted". We now take instant communications and data instantly available at one's fingertips for granted. And getting directions to and from anywhere as well. What would you do if all the cell towers in your area disappeared? This is not a theoretical question - during most landfalling hurricanes and other weather emergencies, this frequently is the case. Are you prepared?