For the 75th Anniversary of the battle of the Bulge, Indian Head Association held its traditional winter event from 13th to 15th December 2019: “On the tracks of General Patton”. The basecamp was at Clairefontaine Sacré-Coeur Center in Arlon, next to the Luxembourg border. UNIVEM went with 25 members, the Half-Track M5 and the GMC…
For the Farewell to Arms of the Chief Comissioner Cyril Villerbu, a parade was held at the “quartier Général Estienne” (General Estienne barracks) in Rambouillet on the 2nd of September 2019. UNIVEM exhibited the Sherman tank and a Dodge Command Car. Several vintage cars and a Dodge WC54 Ambulance from a member of UNIVEM were…
For the 2019 European Heritage Days, UNIVEM is still there and organised once again open days. A well prepared organisation contributed to present a qualitative show to the public. Inside, besides the association’s vehicles, a nice exhibition of radio material and Welbike and Cushman airborne scooters was also to be found. A Goliath (a German disposable…
This year again, UNIVEM participated in the 2019 commemorations of the liberation of the city of Noyon taking place on the second weekend of september. The Half-Track M16 went by truck, while some members of the association came with their own Jeep by road from Satory on Friday afternoon. Several tents were installed to welcome…
This year is the 75th Anniversary of the liberation of Paris and its surroundings. For this occasion, the city of Aulnay-sous-Bois organized on the 31st August 2019 several ceremonies and exhibitions in the city. UNIVEM was in charge of the vehicle part with two Half-Tracks, the DUKW, two GMC CCKW, two Dodge Command Cars and…
On the 27th August 1944, the city of Le Blanc-Mesnil is liberated by the French 2nd Armored Division of the General Leclerc, supported by Free French Force. 75 years later, the city celebrates its liberation with different ceremonies, concerts and military vehicles exhibitions. For this last part, UNIVEM is in charge of the matter. And…
On the 27th August 1944, lthe city of Chelles is liberated by American troops of the 4th Infantry Division helped by the local French Resistance. The city celebrated this Sunday 1st September this liberation and UNIVEM was in charge of bringing vehicles used during these events. Thus, several vehicles of the association were displayed: GMC…
Paris celebrates the 75th anniversary of its liberation. On the 25th August 1944, after an uprising of the French Resistance the previous days and a first entering in the evening of the 24th by elements of the French 2nd Armored Division, troops of General Leclerc entered Paris by the “Porte d’Orléans”. In the east of…
On the 24th August 2019, the Paris remembrance service held at the Paris Police Prefecture the reenactment of the surrender of German troops which occured on the 25 August 1944 in the billard room of the Police Prefecture. The show was directed by Charles Gonzales, and performed by agents of the Police Prefecture. The organisation needed vehicles and…
The city of Voisin-le-Bretonneux celebrated on the 24 August 2019 the 75th Anniversary of its Liberation by the troops of the French 2nd Armored Division. For the occasion, UNIVEM came with heavy vehicles: the three Half-Track, the Scout Car, the Ward-La-France M1A1, the GMC DUKW, GMC CCKW cargo and dumper, but also several Dodge and…
On the 23rd August 2019, the city of Rambouillet celebrate the 75th Anniversary of its Liberation. General Leclerc and the French 2nd Armored Division arrived in Rambouillet on the 22nd August 1944, two days after the Americans troops liberated the city. Leclerc waited until next day (23rd August) to receive the order from General De…
Again, UNIVEM was invited by the “Vincennes en Anciennes” association (an association of classic cars) to attend the arrival of their famous event, the “Traversée de Paris”: hundreds of classic cars driving through Paris on Sunday morning. The finish line being in the castle of Meudon, which is on the edge of a wooded plateau, that…
For this 25th “Locomotion en Fête” (a gathering of everything that has an engine: vintage cars, trucks, tractors, tanks,…) UNIVEM brought few vehicles: Jeep 2nd French Armored Division, GMC CCKW dump truck, field kitchen and Scout Car (that came by their own means on the road!). The theme was about a small camp of the…
79 years ago, Charles de Gaulle made his famous speech, the Appeal of 18 June. To commemorate this event, a ceremony took place in the town of Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt on the 18th of June 2019. Before that, UNIVEM was invited in the morning for a visit of the INRIA (French Institute for Research in Computer Science…
After a preparation of several months, here we are: 75th Anniversary of the landings in Normandy! Like every year, UNIVEM held its Dog Green Camp in the field next to the Vierville-sur-Mer castle. First vehicles went by road on the 27th May: Jeep, GMC CCKW, DUKW, and the International M425 with its trailer! Tents and sanitary…