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Note the sign beside the door. We also had the No Lone zone when there were nukes on our aircraft. It was mandatory that 2 people cross the line together and stay close together. Armed guards from both the US (the owners of the bomb) and our military keystone cops enforced that rule.

Story about someone asking a US guard what he would do if only one person crossed the line? His answer was, he would call his Sargent. When asked why he would call his Sargent, the reply was “to drag your dead ass out of here”.

They played it seriously. :rey2
 
Doesn't matter if factual or not. They are the symbolic "grand daughters" of those concentration camp women.

The lesson is obvious - "Never again!".
 
1944, Earls Court, London. In preparation of the invasion of Europe, #DDAY. A Sherman Beach Armoured Recovery Vehicle (BARV).
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This week on Dirty Jobs - The beach is heavily defended. Bullets are hitting everything, The noise is horrific. And your job is to get out there and attach a cable to the front of that buggered Sherman so we can tow it out of here...
 
The regular Driver's position is covered-in completely.

I am wondering how in blazes they CONTROLLED it: NOBODY's legs are THAT long and a 9-foot clutch throw is a bit much!

Or was it all done by a regular Driver in the regular position who got instructions from a Sergeant beating him on the shoulder with a drill cane?

Anybody have a schematic or cutaway of this critter?
 
For the past 40 years, Canadians across the land have listened to CBC Radio on Christmas eve to hear the same ghost story — a tradition that leaves them both haunted and fulfilled. The reading by Alan Maitland of Frederick Forsyth's classic short story The Shepherd will leave you with chills no matter how many times you listen. Click to read the story which includes a link to the recording:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappen...ds-frederick-forsyth-s-the-shepherd-1.4458378
 
Ganderite said:
For the past 40 years, Canadians across the land have listened to CBC Radio on Christmas eve to hear the same ghost story — a tradition that leaves them both haunted and fulfilled. The reading by Alan Maitland of Frederick Forsyth's classic short story The Shepherd will leave you with chills no matter how many times you listen. Click to read the story which includes a link to the recording:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappen...ds-frederick-forsyth-s-the-shepherd-1.4458378
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Thanks for the reminder, it's a hell of a story.
 
Ganderite said:
For the past 40 years, Canadians across the land have listened to CBC Radio on Christmas eve to hear the same ghost story — a tradition that leaves them both haunted and fulfilled. The reading by Alan Maitland of Frederick Forsyth's classic short story The Shepherd will leave you with chills no matter how many times you listen. Click to read the story which includes a link to the recording:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappen...ds-frederick-forsyth-s-the-shepherd-1.4458378
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Good call Ganderite!
That is easily some of the best radio made. The story is a classic and the reading is impeccable. I love it .
 
I listened to "The Shepherd" last night, as I have for many years.

A curious coincidence: The u-tube movie that I was watching (and paused while I listened to "The Shepherd") had a father and daughter whose surname was Maitland, and, of course, Fireside Al's surname was also Maitland.

The Vampire pilot, through the narrator, says that he saw the squadron letters JK on the side of the Mosquito. In actual fact those letters were never issued to an RAF squadron and are as fictional as is RAF Minton.

Apart from a bit of nit-picking, a bloody good tale!
 
Rule 303 said:
I listened to "The Shepherd" last night, as I have for many years.

A curious coincidence: The u-tube movie that I was watching (and paused while I listened to "The Shepherd") had a father and daughter whose surname was Maitland, and, of course, Fireside Al's surname was also Maitland.

The Vampire pilot, through the narrator, says that he saw the squadron letters JK on the side of the Mosquito. In actual fact those letters were never issued to an RAF squadron and are as fictional as is RAF Minton.

Apart from a bit of nit-picking, a bloody good tale!
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The 20 year old pilot said “It had the letters “JK” painted on it, large and black. Probably for call sign “Jig King”. “

and then of course we find out later: “The faint letters on the nose of the Mosquito behind the figure in the photo read 'JK’. Not “Jig King”, but “Johnny Kavanagh”. The whole thing was clear as day.”


 
Our Xmas tree this year was a direct tribute to battlefield trees much as the one in the photo. Hero's channel has been running a holiday commercial that included a photo of a young American in a winter time foxhole (possibly a "Bulge" photo), the soldier is standing there with a tin cup of coffee and a smile a mile wide over his good fortune to have a 12" tree with a few paper decorations and that cup of joe...I wanted to sort of honor him and many others who had 1, 2, or even 3 xmas's of the same style way back then.
 
fingers284 said:
Our Xmas tree this year was a direct tribute to battlefield trees much as the one in the photo. Hero's channel has been running a holiday commercial that included a photo of a young American in a winter time foxhole (possibly a "Bulge" photo), the soldier is standing there with a tin cup of coffee and a smile a mile wide over his good fortune to have a 12" tree with a few paper decorations and that cup of joe...I wanted to sort of honor him and many others who had 1, 2, or even 3 xmas's of the same style way back then.
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I'd love to see that photo. The timing would certainly be right fir the Battle of the Bulge.
 
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