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Dark Alley Dan said:
Brilliant stuff, that:

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This one brings up a story my late uncle told me about his time in Europe. Apparently some FW190s tuned them up a bit at some point in Normandy without any response from some nearby Brit LAA guns.:sok2 After it was over they went over and asked the Brits why in the fook they hadn't engaged the FWs. The answer was along the lines that they had just cleaned their guns and didn't think it was worth getting them dirty again.:rey2 Their response was to lay a $hit kicking on the Brits.

There was another strafing incident sometime down the line when a Cdn LAA outfit did engage a couple of FW190s shooting one down. I have a couple of cannon rounds from that FW.
 
Sharps '74 said:
Thanks! One of my favourites is the one where Willy pulls back the flap of the hootchie in a pouring rain to reveal a shivering, skinny mutt. Joe says - "Let 'im in, I gotta see something I can feel sorry for."

I learned to hate the rain in NW Europe as a Signal Corps Lineman. Sleeping and working in the rain became my version of hell. The odd bit of heat and dust were much preferable. We envied the radio operators in their nice dry, heated 3/4 tons.
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I had a nice warm APC. Just fold down my work bench and I had a bed. OUT OF THE RAIN!
 
Dark Alley Dan said:
Brilliant stuff, that:

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I read an account of a FW 190 being brought down by a Canadian Bren Gunner (PPCLI?) while on a route march early in the war. First German aircraft brought down by the Canadian Army.
 
Even Dr. Seuss got in on the action -

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https://da.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Düppel_Denkmal#

^ A link to a (Danish?) entry on the German monument which once existed in Dybbol, Schleswig Holstein. Excuse the format.



CV32 said:
Yeah, a really famous scheme in fact. Those DC-3 (C-47A) aircraft are painted in D-Day markings.
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I'm a victim of screen - capture trolling. I cannot bear the public shame! Where is my payout? At least enough for a tall boy.. . . :HR:

To contribute something: after the Second Schleswig - Holstein War, the Germans built a monument near the site of the watershed Battle of Dybbol. It stood until 1945 when unknown persons made it suddenly go away with a suitable amount of high explosives. This monument has not been rebuilt. Hard feelings remained for a long time against Germany due to the use of large numbers of Danish draftees especially during WWI. This is one of the results of the ugly division - annexation of Schleswig Holstein. The citizens there were treated like deportees in their own country like in Chechnya or banned persons in South Africa, so yeah damned ugly. I am not sure if even today there exists a joint annual Danish - German commemoration of the battle which happened in 1864.
 
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I would guess a 45mm as it was the most numerous Soviet AT round in 41. This likely Kiev, the 3rd Panzer took a beating there. The sideways E is the early 3rd Panzer symbol. 3rd was in reserve in the centre and then directed South to get the south flank moving after it had stalled.
 
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2nd Lt. Sweet, USMC gives instruction on the AT-6 Harvard Texan SNJ-4 trainer to a bunch of British cadets under training at Pensacola, Florida, Nov, 1944.
 
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Able Seaman BZ/325 Victor Coombs, B coy Benbow Bn. RNVR transfered to Nelson Bn. 12.6.1915, kia 13.7.1915. He is memorialized on the Helles Memorial, Gallipoli
 
Less than stealthy, Seaforths, but plenty bloody stirring.

A different kind of "piper"...

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(Richard Attenborough voice)

"Here, we bear witness to the miracle of birth. The Curtis Commando has found a place to rest herself in preparation for the event, the bringing forth of new life. She squats on her tailwheel and pushes. Shortly after, the head emerges from her cargo door. Helped along by the rare Khaki Midwives that cluster around her, she is soon resting comfortably with her new offspring."
 
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