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Dark Alley Dan said:
More Tommies with Tommy guns:

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Jack Tars
 
bush1 said:
That was a pretty common statement used by numerous RSM’s over the years.

There could be a sub thread listing some the better phrases used by a RSM, CSM, SWO, BWO, etc over the years. Having ones balls for bookends is probably the most used one though. I remember one SWO who liked to say “If you lie to me I’ll throw you so far into the digger, they will have to pump air to you to breathe.
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I recall one about a man who was not keeping in step & the CSM shouting at him, "You look like a duck f-cking a football".
 
oldstarfire said:
I read somewhere that the Nazi Officer was being very demanding and a real a-hole, so in the existing conditions, it was decided to "neutralize" the problem.
The story was that he was taken out for a walk.........
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The first time I saw that pic was in the early sixties. The word then was that the officer was noted for atrocities and he was turned over to the French Partisans. I seriously doubt the French Partisans had any capabilities or the resources to take care of prisoners. I guess what goes round, comes round? You just can't trust a Bureaucrat to do the right thing at the right time, no matter where and when. That is unless there isn't any mainstream media around. Then summary justice can be dispensed accordingly.
 
Ganderite said:
"...... pour encourager les autres". Voltair was right.
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I thought the comment was written as to suggest that governments should execute a few leaders in their military occasionally to encourage the rest to perform. Evidently Stalin and Mao Tse Tung took this advice to heart.

If you were implying that it would encourage the rest of the group to be less problematic??????????????

Wasn't that picture taken shortly after they found the Canadian POWs shot in the small courtyard??? Between the POed Canadians and French Partisans looking for revenge, I'm surprised they accepted any surrenders from that group.

As for the pic with Churchill, it's a posed/political pic of him awkwardly "holding" the Thompson, not attaching the magazine. I remember reading a comment he made about being thrilled with the experience but felt it "was rather heavy."
 
bearhunter said:
I thought the comment was written as to suggest that governments should execute a few leaders in their military occasionally to encourage the rest to perform. Evidently Stalin and Mao Tse Tung took this advice to heart.

If you were implying that it would encourage the rest of the group to be less problematic??????????????

Wasn't that picture taken shortly after they found the Canadian POWs shot in the small courtyard??? Between the POed Canadians and French Partisans looking for revenge, I'm surprised they accepted any surrenders from that group.

As for the pic with Churchill, it's a posed/political pic of him awkwardly "holding" the Thompson, not attaching the magazine. I remember reading a comment he made about being thrilled with the experience but felt it "was rather heavy."
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Many folks think the soldier in the white shirt is a French Resistance fighter but he is Canadian (Tpr R.J. Lowe) who had his shirt burned and destroyed earlier in the action.
 
bearhunter said:
I thought the comment was written as to suggest that governments should execute a few leaders in their military occasionally to encourage the rest to perform. Evidently Stalin and Mao Tse Tung took this advice to heart.

If you were implying that it would encourage the rest of the group to be less problematic??????????????

Wasn't that picture taken shortly after they found the Canadian POWs shot in the small courtyard??? Between the POed Canadians and French Partisans looking for revenge, I'm surprised they accepted any surrenders from that group.

As for the pic with Churchill, it's a posed/political pic of him awkwardly "holding" the Thompson, not attaching the magazine. I remember reading a comment he made about being thrilled with the experience but felt it "was rather heavy."
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Can't install a drum magazine when bolt is closed.
 
XRCD011 said:
Many folks think the soldier in the white shirt is a French Resistance fighter but he is Canadian (Tpr R.J. Lowe) who had his shirt burned and destroyed earlier in the action.
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Thanks for that. I have always thought that fellow was a French Partisan. Mainly from the caption but also because there is another soldier on the right without a jacket, not to mention the S&W pistol in a leather holster.
 
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