Snautzer01
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The truth is stranger than fiction: WW2 facts that you would call BS if seen on a movie...
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buffnut453
Captain
But does dropping said drop tank constitute alcohol abuse?
GrauGeist
Generalfeldmarschall zur Luftschiff Abteilung
Perhaps, but if you lost your load of beer, your best option would be to bale out and surrender to the enemy.
You'd be treated far better than you would if you returned to the field empty-handed with an entire base full of thirsty guys anticipating your arrival...
wuzak
Captain
buffnut453
Captain
Here's another man who deserves to have a film made about his life, Noel Godfrey Chavasse, VC & Bar, MC:
Noel Godfrey Chavasse - Wikipedia
Noel Godfrey Chavasse - Wikipedia
SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
Battle off Samar. If it wasn't true it would be a bad TV movie.
TheMadPenguin
Senior Airman
Ditto "The Battle Of 5 Sitting Ducks" (aka Savo Island) would be cheap anti-US propaganda if it weren't true.
vikingBerserker
Lieutenant General
That is one movie that needs to be made!
SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
I always found reading about the Battle of Savo Island depressing. I seem to lack the dispassionate outlook of an historian.
That would be great. Watching a YouTube video just isn't as satisfying as full out Hollywood blockbuster.
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Admiral Beez
Major
The fact that after Napoleon's winter weather and logistical disaster in Russia that Germany would invade in 1941 without any preparation for the winter and with wholly inadequate logistics and supply chain.
TheMadPenguin
Senior Airman
The movie version of this would have an old, exhausted ghost-of-Napoleon YELLING at Hitler in the latter's grand planning meetings for EVERY mistake being made, pointing at Hitler's maps and ToE and declaring the shortages and obvious fool notions.
Londo Mollari as Napoleon?
Admiral Beez
Major
For starters, "Toi idiot. Vous n'avez pas de carte? Quelle distance y a-t-il entre Varsovie et Moscou?"
swampyankee
Chief Master Sergeant
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Would this be after yelling at the French military of 1940 for their incompetence?
In any case, Napoleon would do his best to minimize Hitler's successes. He'd also be busy haunting Petain and Laval's nightmares, as traitors to France.
It's a myth. The event in question was at Krojanty, and was actually a limited success for the Poles. Their 18th Pomeranian Uhlans charged and dispersed a German company they caught at rest. It was a short-lived victory - the Germans brought up armoured cars and their machine-guns savaged the exposed cavalry, killing or wounding a third of them before they could make cover.
The subsequent myth of massed Polish cavalry charging Panzers was an invention of Goebbels, who seized on an opportunity to attack those people still doubting his propaganda. His story was that Polish spies had seen the Germans training pre-War with tanks made of cardboard - they did, the Treaty of Versailles having forbidden Germany from building real tanks.
The myth is that the Poles therefore assumed in 1939 that Hitler's claims of hundreds of tanks was a bluff. Foreign journalists swallowed the story without question. Post-War, the story was resurrected by the Soviets to belittle Polish military prowess, and was again unquestioningly repeated by foreign journalists.
One of my fave stories about Brown was when he was test-flying a Tempest V with an over-boosted Sabre engine. The engine went pop and Brown was forced to bale out. He landed safely in a very mucky pond, only to find the pond was in a field occupied by "what looked like the World's biggest and meanest bull!" Whenever Brown started to wade towards one side of the pond, the snorting bull would race round and stand ready for him to exit. Fearful of the bull's horns, Brown was trapped in the pond until some local troops found the farmer, a tiny man, who simply led the bull away by the ring in its nose. Apparently, the bull was about as mean as your average Labrador, and had only wanted to make friends with Brown.
GrauGeist
Generalfeldmarschall zur Luftschiff Abteilung
Out of 16 Polish cavalry charges during the invasion of Poland (most being successful in routing German Infantry), there was actually one instance where they did, indeed, charge armor.
The Wolynska brigade, in support of the 21st armored brigade, attacked a German armored column and routed it's advance.
The Wolynska brigade, in support of the 21st armored brigade, attacked a German armored column and routed it's advance.
fastmongrel
1st Sergeant
No wonder the ghost of Napoleon is exhausted he's been yelling at incompetent French generals and politicians for a century.
No, they weren't; gosh Basket, even you should have known this is wrong. The Sydney had two more guns in its main armament and a heavier secondary armament, with marginally greater calibre than the Kormoran's guns, not to mention better disposition of its armament.
The Basket
Senior Master Sergeant
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In terms of main armament then yes they were close. Maybe not equal but certainly close.
Since I have no idea what I wrote then I claim only stupidity as my defence.
Since I have no idea what I wrote then I claim only stupidity as my defence.
