Its sad to see Sir Tom in hospital but scrolling down the newspaper headlines this morning I noticed some of the photos have him with 3 medals and some show him wearing 4 Newspaper headlines: 'Vaccine victory', and Captain Sir Tom Moore in hospital TD
What 'glaring mistake' are we looking for ? They gave him his Defence Medal back in April. Captain Tom awarded medal as he celebrates 100th birthday (yahoo.com) He'd lost his old one. Captain Sir Tom Moore's Medals Remounted by Spink Medal Services Department
Maybe its me but I would have expected the newspapers to actually have the picture of him with the correct medals - if I recall even The Times had an old incorrect photograph of him and his medals TD
A lovely bit of 1/3rd modelling but... Lee-Enfield No 4 on a scale of 1:3 - YouTube Rifles Lee-Enfield No 4 on a scale of 1:3 $1790 Buy (pocketars.com) ....it's not a No4 & that magazine is a bit dodgey. Gets it right in other photos on that page.
I watched The Irishman on Netflix last night. The main character was asked where he learned Italian. He said during the war he was at Anzio, Salerno and Catania in Sicily. I may be wrong, but wasn't Catania within the British theatre of operations? In a similar vein, I remember in one episode of Peaky Blinders a former British serviceman claims he was at Verdun. Seems unlikely.
You are right to be suspicious. The book on which the film was based has come in for a lot of criticism by organized crime scholars and many of them maintain that Frank Sheeran (De Niro's character) was not reliable on all points. The 45th Infantry Division, to which Frank Sheeran did belong, indeed served at Salerno and Anzio. In Sicily the 45th operated under US 7th Army, mostly in the western and northern portions of the island. Catania was definitely in the British zone on the east coast, and was 8th Army's main objective during the opening phase of the campaign. It is conceivable that Sheeran might have gone there on some task or other after the British took the place, but that is not said. Also, the man Sheeran is talking to in that scene, Russell Bufalino (Joe Pesci), was not from Catania anyway but from Montedoro, a sulfur-mining town in south-central Sicily. Most of the leading Italian-American criminals in the old northeast Pennsylvania--southern tier New York mob came from Montedoro.
I have a slight connection to that movie. Three Finger Castellitto was one of my aunt's father-in-law. We were told never to talk about him or anything related to him when we were growing up. I might watch it when it comes on TV for free but I've heard it is crap. I'm glad my uncle isn't alive to see it.
It is not crap at all. Despite some questions about the accuracy of the story, the lead actors are absolutely brilliant. Go see it by all means. It has been on Netflix.
I'm actually stumped on what LMG this is meant to be. That barrel not too secure . WWII Dragon 1/6th Scale British LMG Enfield 303 Airborne Infantry Commando | eBay
Is it a Breda 30? and yup the barrel looks a bit loose, things could have been very different if they had noticed
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