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The HELP FOR HEROES 4x4 EUROPEAN RALLY 2010 (www.h4hrally.co.uk) will start at Noon on Saturday 19th June 2010 at a secret location in
North Wiltshire. After using byways on Salisbury Plain we
will all go to Portsmouth to embark on the ferry over to France. It
will be an 1800 mile/2900 km expedition encompassing a number of
European countries over a period of 10 days; concluding in Bavaria,
Germany. This non-speed event with a maximum entry of 45 teams and will
be part military history tour (including museums etc), fun activities,
part off-road driving and part club-type social, open to road-legal 4x4
vehicles. The money raised by teams will be
donated to our chosen charity, HELP FOR HEROES (www.helpforheroes.org.uk).
The HELP FOR HEROES 4x4 EUROPEAN RALLY 2010
follows the path and tells the story of the Allied Invasion through
Europe and includes parts fabled by the Band of Brothers book and
television series. As young men, who knew extraordinary bravery and
extraordinary fear, the Allied Forces landed in France early on D-Day
morning – 6th June 1944.
In addition to Normandy, the H4H Rally route will visit the Market Garden and Rhine offensives at Arnhem, Holland, where on 17 September 1944, in the largest airborne operation ever seen thousands of paratroopers descended from the sky by parachute or glider up to 150 km behind enemy lines.
Our route moves south, to Bastogne in Belgium where in the coldest winter for decades, the Germans made a final push – the Battle of the Bulge. Towards Germany, the rally routing is via the Alsace region of France and its Maginot Line fortifications, then onto Dachau and its horrors of war. We end our journey at Hitler's "impenetrable" Eagle's Nest at Berchtesgaden.
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