I can relate anything to WWII

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  1. OpanaPointer

    OpanaPointer Pearl Harbor Myth Buster

    :salut: to the boys with the big brass ones!
     
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  2. OpanaPointer

    OpanaPointer Pearl Harbor Myth Buster

    I may be mad but it appears that the tracers were added after the film was shot. (Dambusters footage.) Extreme patience required for that fiddly bit of film.
     
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  3. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

  4. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    Can't even listen to classical music without ending up with a WW2 connection .
    Yesterday I was listening to Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade .
    I had a little google whilst listening.
    It seems the place where he composed it , the Glinki-Mavriny dacha, Nyezhgovitsy near Cherementets Lake was destroyed by the Germans in WW2 .
    Scheherazade (Rimsky-Korsakov) - Wikipedia
     
  5. Little Friend

    Little Friend Senior Member

    Nuffin' New There, the Germans Loved Destroying things ! We watched the Battle of Crete last night..... :reallymad:
     
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  6. Wobbler

    Wobbler Patron Patron

    The three part series on PBS? Caught the last 20 minutes of episode three yesterday afternoon, just after the kidnapping of Kreipe, looked really interesting, have set the Freeview for the Sunday series repeat.
     
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  7. OpanaPointer

    OpanaPointer Pearl Harbor Myth Buster

    Last time I was in Crete we were shitting bricks on the approach. Both righthand engines shut down early in the approach. I had been privileged to sit in the Navigator's seat (after bulkhead of the cockpit on a C-130) for the night approach. When the alarms started going off the co-pilot asked me if I'd like to trade places with him. I replied that I'd left my 'chute in the back and had to go get it. Didn't move, however, nothing like a great view when you're going to die.
     
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  8. Wobbler

    Wobbler Patron Patron

    Or dark humour, if that’s what the co-pilot was attempting. If he was, that’s coolness personified.
     
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  9. OpanaPointer

    OpanaPointer Pearl Harbor Myth Buster

    "I'll tell you when to bail out. The signal will be 'Geronimo' fading rapidly away." :-P
     
  10. OpanaPointer

    OpanaPointer Pearl Harbor Myth Buster

    There was this great ... raw spot ... on a hill just off the runway there. I didn't ask.
     
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  11. Wobbler

    Wobbler Patron Patron

    :lol::lol:
     
  12. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

  13. OpanaPointer

    OpanaPointer Pearl Harbor Myth Buster

    Negative air/ground interface?
     
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  14. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

  15. Little Friend

    Little Friend Senior Member

    No sign of the aircrew yet, must still be on their way down......:cheers:
     
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  16. OpanaPointer

    OpanaPointer Pearl Harbor Myth Buster

    Air crews do hate walking home from work.
     
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  17. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    As a nudge the photo is of St Pauls from Clerkenwell.


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  18. OpanaPointer

    OpanaPointer Pearl Harbor Myth Buster

    ,,,and PBR sailors hate swimming home from work. I did make it back to base in time for a memorial service on the dock. Mine. Sadly only one guy had faith in me. He cleaned up, but didn't give me a cut. If I had known...
     
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  19. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    I can’t shoot it if I can’t see it.

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  20. JohnG505

    JohnG505 Getting there......

    Isn't that a quote from Band of Brothers? British Sherman tank commander, just before he gets taken out by said German tank, he couldn't see?
     
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