Dirty Dozen Alert! Starts in 2 minutes!!
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#1bcshooter
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Sorry . But the Dead are more important 
#1bcshooter
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- North Of The DMZ (US border)
I'll hold my $275 Garand and watch the movie as I think about how overpriced the Garand market is now! LOL
$275 Ouch ! My M1C Garand (not carbine) was $199 from Lever Arms
SilverBullet86
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"You've seen a general inspecting troops before haven't you? Just walk slow, act dumb, and look stupid" Gawd I love that movie!
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- East of Home, West of the Rest
Coyote Ugly
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You rooting for Italy?
No, it was back to back movies on TCM. You still got Rabbit Ears on the B&W TV?
Coyote Ugly
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Did they "get along" ?....
I don't think they did get along in the movie. Rommel said in the movie you can never depend on the Italians for anything, or something to that effect.
$275 Ouch ! My M1C Garand (not carbine) was $199 from Lever Arms
It's surprising to learn that Lever actually had an M1C Garand in inventory. There were quite a number of M1Ds that came in with the Danish rifles, but previous reports were that there were no M1Cs among them.
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- East of Home, West of the Rest
No, it was back to back movies on TCM. You still got Rabbit Ears on the B&W TV?
You were holding a US and a German rifle. I was joking you couldn't pick one side or the other, like the Italians.
Coyote Ugly
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I was the spy in the movie! LOL
In their defence
, I'm pretty sure he could count on the Italians to recall the Battle of Caporetto , where the Germans "turned-around" and decimated the Italian 2nd Army...
Churchill said it was only fair that Italy joined the Axis for WW2, since we were stuck with them for WW1.
Anyway, my favorite part of the show was the old MX footage in the little "making of" film they showed before the movie. "Lee Marvin is an action guy". LOL
When the untried US Army suffered several initial reversals, incl some large scale surrenders, at the hands of the Germans in North Africa this caused some of the Brits to condescendingly refer to the Americans as "our Italians". Quite a bit of unwarranted pomposity there as the British Army spent the first part of the war getting their a$$es waxed regularly by the Germans, to say nothing of their humiliating defeats by the Japanese in Hong Kong, Malaya and Burma.
