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Dark Alley Dan said:
Radial engines mark their turf when parked. The local airfield operator hates getting his tarmac all greasy. :)

Here's a static run of Engine #4:

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I ran Wright Cyclone 1820's for ten years. Made good power but were more temperamental than the Pratts. Then again, Pratt & Whitney never boosted their stuff to 54.5 inches of manifold pressure on takeoff either. Nothing sounded better... they made a Harley engine sound like a baby rattle.

We just lived covered in 100-weight oil. We washed our flight suits and gloves in a 5-gallon pail of a gas. We washed the airplane with it, too. Nothing else would take the carbon off the wings. Our engineer washed the engines down with it... with a smoke hanging out of his mouth. The good old days.
 
diopter said:
Operation Ariel (also Operation Aerial) was the name given to the World War II evacuation of Allied forces and civilians from ports in western France from 15–25 June 1940, following the military collapse in the Battle of France against Nazi Germany. It followed Operation Dynamo, the evacuation from Dunkirk and Operation Cycle, an evacuation from Le Havre, which finished on 13 June. British and Allied ships were covered from French bases by five Royal Air Force (RAF) fighter squadrons and assisted by aircraft based in England to lift British, Polish and Czech troops, civilians and equipment from Atlantic ports, particularly from St. Nazaire and Nantes.

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The Seaforth Highlanders had sent some advance parties to France around this time in a preparation to move to the continent, but these were hastily returned to England with all the vehicles they had brought with them left in France.
 
Lotta useful kit was abandoned in place at the evacuation point.

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Thankfully, the Germans were early believers in recycling.

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And speaking of captured vehicles...

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If you didn't succumb to the blood loss, just imagine the infection and poisoning from those arrows being in the ground. I think I'd prefer a nice surgical 2000lb bomb strike !
 
We few, we Band of Brothers...

Is that at AGINCOURT?
We just celebrated the 600th anniversary of that battle. Those broad, barbed arrowheads would have been used against the French horse,
but the long, thin, armour-piercing 'Bodkin' heads would have been used against dismounted men-at-arms wearing steel plate armour. It's been written that those archers shot 50,000 arrows at 8,000 Frenchmen on that muddy day in October, 1415.
 
mikerock said:
The Seaforth Highlanders had sent some advance parties to France around this time in a preparation to move to the continent, but these were hastily returned to England with all the vehicles they had brought with them left in France.
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The RCR, 48th Highlanders and Hasty P's landed at Brest and managed to get about as far as Le Mans before cutting out pretty quickly...when they discovered they weren't very welcome...about the time the Vichy Govt was being formed and Paris capitulated.
 
diopter said:
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I won a medal at our club's Schützenfest in 2014 with an 89/100 in crossbow. It's REALLY hard!

AP said:
The RCR, 48th Highlanders and Hasty P's landed at Brest and managed to get about as far as Le Mans before cutting out pretty quickly...when they discovered they weren't very welcome...about the time the Vichy Govt was being formed and Paris capitulated.
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Yep, they were part of this operation. It wasn't the full battalion just some advance parties, they were only in France for a day or so. Had to leave all their vehicles behind as well.
 
When I first started to work for the old Ont Dept of Lands and Forests in Bancroft in 1969 a couple of ex Hasty P's were on staff. One of them told me about his short visit to France before returning to England. Bancroft is located in the northern part of Hastings County.
Many veterans of the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment had returned to live in the Bancroft area. I only know of one left now. He is a recipient of the Military Medal awarded for action in Italy
He served as reviewing officer at our local army cadet corps inspection a few years ago. A real gentleman who was thrilled to see red berets on parade one more time.
 
Yeah, thought so myself. Was trying to remember when longbows were used in WW2. In fairness, at least ONE was. Bonus points to whoever knows when and where...:)

PIAT use requires huge testicles and a tolerance for recoil, I'm told. But you end up with awesome trophy pics:

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"LCpl Thrasher of the Westminster Regiment poses with the German Hummel SPG which he destroyed with a PIAT, Pontecorvo, Italy, 26 May 1944."
 
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