Snautzer01
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- Mar 26, 2007
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Perhaps, but if you lost your load of beer, your best option would be to bale out and surrender to the enemy.But does dropping said drop tank constitute alcohol abuse?
Ditto "The Battle Of 5 Sitting Ducks" (aka Savo Island) would be cheap anti-US propaganda if it weren't true.Battle off Samar. If it wasn't true it would be a bad TV movie.
Battle off Samar. If it wasn't true it would be a bad TV movie.
I always found reading about the Battle of Savo Island depressing. I seem to lack the dispassionate outlook of an historian.Ditto "The Battle Of 5 Sitting Ducks" (aka Savo Island) would be cheap anti-US propaganda if it weren't true.
That would be great. Watching a YouTube video just isn't as satisfying as full out Hollywood blockbuster.That is one movie that needs to be made!
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.
For starters, "Toi idiot. Vous n'avez pas de carte? Quelle distance y a-t-il entre Varsovie et Moscou?"The movie version of this would have an old, exhausted ghost-of-Napoleon YELLING at Hitler....
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?
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 Polish army charging tanks on horseback. I've read this for years but also a few that claim it never really happened. If it did you've got to admire that kind of courage if nothing else.
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.The story of Winkle Brown would make a completely unbelievable movie with a "whats that stuff about him speaking to Goering" comment.
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?
Not true
The Sydney and Kormoran were equal in armament.
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.