Glaring Mistakes

Your turn is coming!

 

Dear oh dear oh dear.

Vinegar would not be pleased.

Kind regards, always,

Jim.

 

Is that Order Winyates photo at the bottom left??

TD

 

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

 

I’m beyond help, 60 years young and an incurable “In my day...” kind of bloke for years now

 

Sure is, no one else in the British Army looked half as scruffy.

 

He does have Major Finchman beat, but not by much.

 

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

 

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.

 

Is it a Breda 30? and yup the barrel looks a bit loose, things could have been very different if they had noticed

 

"Eisenhower was incensed at Montgomery’s smoking in his presence."

President Eisenhower painted a portrait of British general he called a 'psychopath' - We Are The Mighty