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AP said:
Many Canadians cannot understand how terribly poor the state of equipment and paucity of training that was available or conducted by the Canadian Army in 1939. It was criminal. There were three regular infantry units but woefully under strength and 'armour' was just a notional term. But it was also the tail end of the great depression...there simply was no money.
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The fact they landed, what 3 weeks before and had no vehicles or any air or naval support didn't help either.
Of course arguably "we" never have any money for the military it seems.
 
bearhunter said:
I can't find any information on "Otters." The only thing that comes up are prop driven overhead wing models from DeHaviland.
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That's the one. Imagine an off road monster truck with wings.
Went up and down like an Otis elevator.
You can date arctic buildings by the 4by8 sheets of plywood, because only when the Otter came out could you get them out there.
 
Donny Fenn1 said:
The fact they landed, what 3 weeks before and had no vehicles or any air or naval support didn't help either.
Of course arguably "we" never have any money for the military it seems.
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Didn't the Aussies arrive in Hong Kong just in time to be marched directly off of the ships and into camps?

Auggie D.
 
Sat at the controls of a DC-3 in '65 as an Air Cadet on a Saturday morning. We flew out of Gander, NL over the North Atlantic telephone cable. When we found a Russian, Portugeuse, Spanish, etc. trawler, we would fly over it and throw a bundle of leaflets out the cockpit window. The leaflets warned the trawler that it was bottom trawling close to the transatlantic telephone cable. Did a little steering but no foot control work. I was 15 and probably too short to reach the foot pedals, lol. I'm assuming there were foot controls but can't really remember. I was an Air Cadet with 537 Gander Royal Canadian Air Cadet Squadron. Heady stuff.
 
stratosonic said:
Sat at the controls of a DC-3 in '65 as an Air Cadet on a Saturday morning. We flew out of Gander, NL over the North Atlantic telephone cable. When we found a Russian, Portugeuse, Spanish, etc. trawler, we would fly over it and throw a bundle of leaflets out the cockpit window. The leaflets warned the trawler that it was bottom trawling close to the transatlantic telephone cable. Did a little steering but no foot control work. I was 15 and probably too short to reach the foot pedals, lol. I'm assuming there were foot controls but can't really remember. I was an Air Cadet with 537 Gander Royal Canadian Air Cadet Squadron. Heady stuff.
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I was an Air Cadet in Gander, too. I also took the controls of a Dak. That was my first time at flying. I did some pretty good figure 8s. I recall the plane had a long range fuel tank in the cabin.
 
Dark Alley Dan said:
"Dear Mom. Hell of a day today. Bent an airplane, I'm OK. Say Hi to Dad. Love, Kazimierz"

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On the news (Edmonton CTV) tues. night that we lost one of the few last air-worthy Spitfires in a "nose over flip" crash at an English airshow this week.
 
fingers284 said:
On the news (Edmonton CTV) tues. night that we lost one of the few last air-worthy Spitfires in a "nose over flip" crash at an English airshow this week.
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Very sad to see the old girl injured, and in such an undignified way, but she'll fly again. We live in a world where folks are manufacturing brand new Fw 190s, and where there are five 1990's production flyable ME-262s. Refurbing a flipped Spit is comparatively child's play.

And according to the Daily mail, there are 55 flyable Spits still out there, doing what they do, and being beautiful while they do it.

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### with wings, these are.

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Story's here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...thy-Spitfires-using-just-handheld-camera.html
 
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fingers284 said:
On the news (Edmonton CTV) tues. night that we lost one of the few last air-worthy Spitfires in a "nose over flip" crash at an English airshow this week.
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It was in France, at L’aérodrome de Longuyon – Villette. The video is in the Pics and Video Gallery sub forum. Painful to watch.
 
blaxsun said:
Bah, can't believe I didn't recognize this one... Panther, Battle of the Bulge. I'll leave the details for others to guess!
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Brookwood said:
A Panther all gussied up to look like an M-10. Oh those Germans....always up to some sort of shenanigans...

http://www.lonesentry.com/articles/ttt07/panther-tank-disguise-m10.html

Brookwood
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Bingo... 4 known (knocked out) for sure, but possibly up to 10 made.

What was particularly amazing to me, is that even though it involved some quite extensive work, it is believed that it was all done at a field depot level. Some pretty skilled armourers/mechanics in those depots by the end of the war. Years of practice patching together tanks on the Eastern front.
 
Yes. Death by firing squad.

If you were smart, the thing to do would be to wear your own uniform underneath, assuming you had time to strip.
 
Sharps '74 said:
Yes. Death by firing squad.

If you were smart, the thing to do would be to wear your own uniform underneath, assuming you had time to strip.
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My history and memory on this "False Army" is a bit sketchy but were they extensively deployed during the Battle of the Bulge?
I recall watching a war movie where Germans dressed in American MP uniforms speaking perfect English were misdirecting traffic into ambushes.
 
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