Rat Patrol
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RememberTheSomme
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You know when I watched this series originally as a elementary school kid(grade 1or2), I thought it was the best thing on TV.
If I chance a rerun clip on youtube, it makes me feel
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About as historically correct as our backyard fight's, when we cut Sten Mk II's from pine off cuts, found in my grandfathers woodshop.
Why the Sten MkII? There was nothing you could buy that replicated it at the time, and alot of us were watching SpyForce(early 70s). Why the Owen's weren't used I never knew. Maybe at that period of the war the Sten was right for this Aussie Commando unit. Never researched it.
"Mate,.....the only good Jap,..is a dead Jap"
If I chance a rerun clip on youtube, it makes me feel
.About as historically correct as our backyard fight's, when we cut Sten Mk II's from pine off cuts, found in my grandfathers woodshop.
Why the Sten MkII? There was nothing you could buy that replicated it at the time, and alot of us were watching SpyForce(early 70s). Why the Owen's weren't used I never knew. Maybe at that period of the war the Sten was right for this Aussie Commando unit. Never researched it.
"Mate,.....the only good Jap,..is a dead Jap"
The whole Rat Patrol show inserted Americans into a British operation. Major David Sterling, father of the SAS was the model for the show. Americans never fought like the LRDG(Long Range Desert Group) in North Africa. These guys destroyed an unreal number of Axis aircraft on the ground and tied up thousands of enemy troops hundreds of miles behind the front while suffering small losses themselves. Even an old fashioned commander like Montgomery recognized their worth.
Technology Direct
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Loved that show!
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Loved that show!
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Yeah, they don't make 'em like that, anymore.
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I could possibly understand one American in an all British crew BUT NOT the other way round! And I never knew that the germans used American Half-Tracks!
That was one of Rommel tactics, attract tanks , truck or half-tracks with a small trap, disable the vehicle and fend off the attack, repair the vehicles and us it.
John, what really got me was the German Browning MGs that threw the brass out of the right side of the gun and fired forever without a belt going into them.
I have been trying for the last 50 years to design a MG which can do THAT and I STILL don't have it figured out!
Magic, perhaps?
Worked for a couple of year with a guy who had been an Oberscharfuhrer in the Waffen-SS, just about the time that the show was at its height, that one and "Hogan's Heroes". Mention the words and he would explode, screaming, "They makes us out to look like fools! We were NOT FOOLS!!!". So there you have it, straight from SS-Oberscharfuhrer Stemler. And the Sergeant-Major is ALWAYS right, no matter which Army; that's why he is the Sergeant-Major and you aren't!
Bless him; he is long gone. Bless them all, the ones who were really THERE: they all did what they thought was right.
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I have been trying for the last 50 years to design a MG which can do THAT and I STILL don't have it figured out!
Magic, perhaps?
Worked for a couple of year with a guy who had been an Oberscharfuhrer in the Waffen-SS, just about the time that the show was at its height, that one and "Hogan's Heroes". Mention the words and he would explode, screaming, "They makes us out to look like fools! We were NOT FOOLS!!!". So there you have it, straight from SS-Oberscharfuhrer Stemler. And the Sergeant-Major is ALWAYS right, no matter which Army; that's why he is the Sergeant-Major and you aren't!
Bless him; he is long gone. Bless them all, the ones who were really THERE: they all did what they thought was right.
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Really?? That's disgusting. Anyone in the SS should burn in hell.
Rory McCanuck
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That's a pretty sweeping generalization.
Same could be said for anyone supporting a repressive
comunist regime that promotes the killing of female
children by using products made in sweat shops
using forced labour.
Like Norincos....
Same could be said for anyone supporting a repressive
comunist regime that promotes the killing of female
children by using products made in sweat shops
using forced labour.
Like Norincos....
Waffen-SS was the "Armed SS".
They had NOTHING to do with the Camps, if that's what you are thinking.
Yes, they are a Criminal Organisation and any man who was a member was a War Criminal. For 90 per cent of the guys, their single War Crime was VOLUNTEERING to fight for their country. Allies made it a War Crime to be a member of any organisation which conspired to start a war of aggression. The NSDAP was tarred with this brush and the SS was a part of the NSDAP....... so anyone who volunteered became a War Criminal. The SS was ALL Volunteers until about the middle of 1944, when they did start drafting some guys. The regular Wehrmacht was all drafted; you could not volunteer for the Wehrmacht. You COULD for the SS and a lot of people did, including hundreds of thousands of anti-Communist French, Belgian, Dutch, Polish, Ukrainian and others..... even a few Volksdeutsche who were rescued from the Reds in SW Ukraine.
Funny, OUR GUYS were nearly all Volunteers but they weren't War Criminals because our side was DEFENDING. But then, Britain DID declare War on Germany over the matter of Poland..... so who is the Aggressor and who is the Defender?
Get your facts straight BEFORE firing off volleys of propaganda-inspired hatred.
It's been OVER for nearly 70 years now.
Can't we stop the hate SOME time?
Or is that too much to ask for?
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They had NOTHING to do with the Camps, if that's what you are thinking.
Yes, they are a Criminal Organisation and any man who was a member was a War Criminal. For 90 per cent of the guys, their single War Crime was VOLUNTEERING to fight for their country. Allies made it a War Crime to be a member of any organisation which conspired to start a war of aggression. The NSDAP was tarred with this brush and the SS was a part of the NSDAP....... so anyone who volunteered became a War Criminal. The SS was ALL Volunteers until about the middle of 1944, when they did start drafting some guys. The regular Wehrmacht was all drafted; you could not volunteer for the Wehrmacht. You COULD for the SS and a lot of people did, including hundreds of thousands of anti-Communist French, Belgian, Dutch, Polish, Ukrainian and others..... even a few Volksdeutsche who were rescued from the Reds in SW Ukraine.
Funny, OUR GUYS were nearly all Volunteers but they weren't War Criminals because our side was DEFENDING. But then, Britain DID declare War on Germany over the matter of Poland..... so who is the Aggressor and who is the Defender?
Get your facts straight BEFORE firing off volleys of propaganda-inspired hatred.
It's been OVER for nearly 70 years now.
Can't we stop the hate SOME time?
Or is that too much to ask for?
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This was no generalization. I didn't say Germany. I didn't say German Army - I said SS. A specific subset of idealistic thugs. When I read what was written I thought for a second I had stumbled onto the StormFront website.
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