History channel my behind
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Well there's always that old movie, "the Blue Max." Irish army played both sides. They just changed helmets, but the rest of the kit was the same!
Yeah, it was pretty funny. Not a garand or m1 carbine in sight. Guess the prop company had rented the US rifles to someone else & this production ended up with what was left. If the US had sks in 1945 I think the soviets would have been pissed as they barely had any.
I saw the show, and thought it was pretty neat. Although I don't know too much about the race, so I can't comment on the accuracy.
When I saw the Americans there was a little glimpse of a rifle, and I thought WTF?. So I went back to the frame and it was an SKS, and later they had mausers. Other than that, they did OK.
When I saw the Americans there was a little glimpse of a rifle, and I thought WTF?. So I went back to the frame and it was an SKS, and later they had mausers. Other than that, they did OK.
The info in there was decent, saw the gun stuff and made me wink a bit but I'll cut them some slack since U.S. infantry equipment wasn't the "point" of the show. That comment from Von Braun during interrogation about how if he was to be blamed for the activities/atrocities at Pinemunde(sp?), then Alexander Graham Bell should be blamed also because the orders came over the telephone wire he invented, now THAT was priceless !
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Saw that last night. I wasn't really paying much attention to the rifles and thought they has 03's not garands but as soon as I saw the back of the SKS reciever I knew something was wrong. Then I started paying attention and lo and behold none of them had correct rifles. Also noticed that the SKS had the bayonet removed, and something about the bayonet swivel/lugs did not look right but I did'nt tape it so I cant go frame by frame to check.
Yes, but the space part was pretty good. The fictionalized conversations and so on, who knows, but the general thrust of it was accurate.
Wernher von Braun was a very pivotal character in the US rocket program, missile development, beating the Russkis to the moon and by default not losing other technology races. However, I am glad that they shine a bit of a light on his Nazi activities. I do believe that his only ideology was rockets, but in the pursuit of his ideology he was as fanatical as anyone else in Nazi Germany at that time. Most people who were SS Majors, party members, met on multiple occassions with Hitler and Himmler, employed slave labour to make their equipment, and were instrumental in building and firing what were nothing less than terror weapons against helpless civilians were not given government jobs in the U.S. after the war. But we are perhaps lucky that he was.
Someone told me that he wanted to title his memoirs "I shoot for the Moon", but someone suggested it be subtitled ...But Sometimes I Hit London".
Wernher von Braun was a very pivotal character in the US rocket program, missile development, beating the Russkis to the moon and by default not losing other technology races. However, I am glad that they shine a bit of a light on his Nazi activities. I do believe that his only ideology was rockets, but in the pursuit of his ideology he was as fanatical as anyone else in Nazi Germany at that time. Most people who were SS Majors, party members, met on multiple occassions with Hitler and Himmler, employed slave labour to make their equipment, and were instrumental in building and firing what were nothing less than terror weapons against helpless civilians were not given government jobs in the U.S. after the war. But we are perhaps lucky that he was.
Someone told me that he wanted to title his memoirs "I shoot for the Moon", but someone suggested it be subtitled ...But Sometimes I Hit London".
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- Tucson, Arizona
One of our A7 pilots met hitler and the rest of the top nazis. His father was in the german diplomatic corps. Obviously he emigrated and equally obvious that he was only a child at the time, but it was odd hearing him talk about it.
