Yes that is a great movie from a different perspective.......
What is your favorite battle scene in a movie with old milsurps in it.
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Yes that is a great movie from a different perspective.......
I saw a movie withcharlize Theron and Penelope Cruz in it it took place in the Spanish civil war and later in WW2. The best part was some girl on girl and some 3 way action. Kinda dirty but there was shooting involved and they banged nazi officers for info I think they were spy's or whores or both not sure on the name of the movie.
Called head in the clouds!
Worth it for the ###y part
Called head in the clouds!
Worth it for the ###y part
The Chinese movie, "Assembly", also has some Reisings and Johnsons in it!
I have always liked the scene from, "The Bridge at Neretva".
The chetnik galloping downhill while firing an MG42 over the horses neck always brings me to tears of laughter.
I have always liked the scene from, "The Bridge at Neretva".
The chetnik galloping downhill while firing an MG42 over the horses neck always brings me to tears of laughter.
Yes you are correct!!!!
Cheers!
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The actor is Barry Pepper. Ironically, he was born in Campbell River, BC and still identifies himself as Canadian.
Wow, a couple of MILSLUTS banging away. Going to have to catch that one, guns or no guns.
Wow, a couple of MILSLUTS banging away. Going to have to catch that one, guns or no guns.
Yes there were guns. I thought it was going to be crappy the old lady wanted to watch it the there were ### guns alcohol. I was hooked
Some artistic license was taken with the scope on his 03A4 Sniper rifle. In this frame it is mounted with a Lyman Alaskan, which was specified for the 03A4, but never issued during WW2 because of production inabilities. The Weaver M73B1, which is a modified Weaver 330, was the standard scope on the 03A4 during WW2. It is reported that some Lyman Alaskans and M81/M82 scopes, which are militarized Alaskans, were used on 03A4s during the Korean War. The 03A4 remained in service in limited numbers until 1970 or so. During it's later service it was fitted with the M84 sniper scope as used on the M1D Garand sniper variant.
The Lyman Alaskan is much superior to the Weaver 330 and was widely used on hunting rifles thru the 1950s. I use one on both my 03A4 and M1C Garand and keep the Weaver M73B1 as a spare.
I'd have to look at SPR again, but there is yet another scope shown on the 03A4 in the "church steeple" scene where the sniper does a lot of shooting with another type of non-military scope with an adjustable objective as I recall.
Zulu, where the troops form 2 ranks and alternate loading and firing those old Martini-Henry rifles. It reminded me of firing a Feu de Joie with the FN back in PPCLI days with the commands, "present", followed by "commence", which began a ripple fire down the ranks. Also, the stabilizing influence of Color Sgt Bourne who steadied the troops in the face of the Zulu charge with his calm repetition of,"Look to your front, mark your target when it comes".
The Lighthorsemen - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093416/
The movie depicts the Battle of Beersheba in 1917 ..... rather than being Cavalry, the Australians in the charge were Mounted Infantry, tasked with spearheading the final assault on the objective. (If this last attack had failed, the British forces would likely have had to surrender to the Turks, as they had come across country with insufficient water and other supplies to make it back to their own lines - very much a "do or die" operation.) The Defenders held their artillery fire waiting for the Australians to dismount and advance on foot, as Mounted Infantry had always done in the past, but at the range where they were expected to do so, they instead broke into a mounted charge on the position. They had no swords, of course, but used their P'1907 bayonets as such ....
This is a photograph taken at Beersheba in 1917 - albeit not likely the actual charge, but rather a "photo op" re-enactment staged after the battle -
In this detail blown up from the above photo, you can see the SMLE rifles slung on their backs, as they brandish their bayonets -
it is my opinion the film Zulu would have been a even better if the Webley service revolvers had actually been period correct. the other one that sticks in my mind is Charlton Heston, who actually was depicted as using an Enfield revolver in one of the battle scenes of Khartoum.
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Since nobody else has mentioned it, I'll nominate the scene from Laurence of Arabia where they ambush the Turkish train... No. 1 Mk III's, Vickers, Mauser pistols and even some swordplay.
I think we've been over this once before. As you may know, several million people were killed in the civil war that followed Indian independence in 1947. As you may also have noticed, it takes very little to spark religious, racial and caste mob violence in India and Pakistan (east and west) even today.
At the time the much-ballyhooed Amritsar Massacre occurred, the Punjab was under martial law temporarily due to the threat of outbreaks of violence, which usually turns sectarian very quickly in India. The agitators who organized the "peaceful protest" were attempting to engineer a confrontation to test the resolve of the authorities in the expectation that they would do nothing. Assemblies of more than a few people had been banned and this was well known.
You would have to know a bit about the whole Indian "experience" to put this event in it's proper perspective. Sufficient to say that the priests of the Golden Temple made General Dyer an honorary Sikh for in their opinion saving the Punjab from civil war.
In a country that burns more than 60,000 brides a year, aborts females by the million, used to burn widows on their husband's funeral pyres and perpetrates a thousand other gross abuses of human rights to this day, bleating about 379 or for that matter 979 people killed by rifle fire is an obscene hypocrisy, however tragic for those who suffered.
They might do well to remember that but for the British they would have no unified country today, with the infrastructure and institutions that it has. The British found it a collection of petty principalities stuck in the Dark Ages and left it a unified state with all the makings of future prosperity, had the Moslems and Hindus not torn it apart themselves at the cost of millions of lives in a completely unnecessary civil war. (For those who don't know, Pakistan and India were one under the Raj) A civil war by the way, in which countless thousands of women and children were massacred and mutilated in the most disgusting ways, reminiscent of the recent gang rape that made the news. After telling the British and the Jews that they should just surrender to Hitler, Mahondas K. Ghandi said "I would rather see all India in flames than yield one inch to Pakistan".
Do a google search for "The Ghandi that Nobody Knows" if you'd like a short course in the divergence from reality of the sugar-coated Hollywood pap that passes for knowledge of that time and place in the minds of most Western folk.
