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Post by tuum on Apr 27, 2020 13:22:38 GMT
So, who on here, during this lockdown has become a subject matter expert (SME) and world authority on specific subjects as a result of binge-watching/reading on a subject. Having spent the last 7 days watching 700 You Tube videos and reading 30 books I am now a self appointed world reknowned expert on Operation Market Garden - the battle for Arnhem. Go on, ask me any question you like. Operation Market GardenA Bridge Too Far
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Post by zerps on Apr 27, 2020 13:24:53 GMT
What is the air speed velocity of an unladen African swallow?
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Apr 27, 2020 13:25:37 GMT
Post by tuum on Apr 27, 2020 13:25:37 GMT
...and here is one I am currently watching for the 3rd time. Jeremy Clarkson does a cracking job in this documentary. The Greatest Raid of All Time
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Post by tuum on Apr 27, 2020 13:28:17 GMT
What is the air speed velocity of an unladen African swallow? Don't know...that world leading authority tag didn't last long did it?
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Apr 27, 2020 13:48:07 GMT
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Post by supersimonstainrod on Apr 27, 2020 13:48:07 GMT
So, who on here, during this lockdown has become a subject matter expert (SME) and world authority on specific subjects as a result of binge-watching/reading on a subject. Having spent the last 7 days watching 700 You Tube videos and reading 30 books I am now a self appointed world reknowned expert on Operation Market Garden - the battle for Arnhem. Go on, ask me any question you like. Operation Market GardenA Bridge Too Far5 VC's awarded to Combatants at Arnhem,remember watching Clarkson's documentary about the VC,focusing on RH Cain.
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Post by tuum on Apr 27, 2020 14:25:31 GMT
So, who on here, during this lockdown has become a subject matter expert (SME) and world authority on specific subjects as a result of binge-watching/reading on a subject. Having spent the last 7 days watching 700 You Tube videos and reading 30 books I am now a self appointed world reknowned expert on Operation Market Garden - the battle for Arnhem. Go on, ask me any question you like. Operation Market GardenA Bridge Too Far5 VC's awarded to Combatants at Arnhem,remember watching Clarkson's documentary about the VC,focusing on RH Cain. One of them to a S-o-T lad from Burslem - John Baskeyfield VC.
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Apr 27, 2020 14:45:32 GMT
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Post by chuffedstokie on Apr 27, 2020 14:45:32 GMT
The name of the place that was turned into a field hospital/ HQ. Now a very interesting museum.
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Post by tuum on Apr 27, 2020 15:14:43 GMT
Never been to Arnhem. It is now on my bucket list. The Airborne Museum at the ex Hartenstein Hotel looks to be decent place to visit. I watched a Battlefield Tours video run by some US Vets that followed the route of the Band of Brothers from D-Day through Market-Garden and into Austria. Would be a good 15-20day European tour for people from the US. I bet it costs a hefty packet mind. I have been promising myself a tour of Northern France at some point + the French ghost town Oradour-sur-Glane. I also want to do the hike on The Freedom Trail through the Pyrenees on the route the escaped PoW's took to get into Spain but I better get a move on before I am too old to do it. So many things to do, so little time.
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Post by supersimonstainrod on Apr 27, 2020 15:32:24 GMT
Never been to Arnhem. It is now on my bucket list. The Airborne Museum at the ex Hartenstein Hotel looks to be decent place to visit. I watched a Battlefield Tours video run by some US Vets that followed the route of the Band of Brothers from D-Day through Market-Garden and into Austria. Would be a good 15-20day European tour for people from the US. I bet it costs a hefty packet mind. I have been promising myself a tour of Northern France at some point + the French ghost town Oradour-sur-Glane. I also want to do the hike on The Freedom Trail through the Pyrenees on the route the escaped PoW's took to get into Spain but I better get a move on before I am too old to do it. So many things to do, so little time. Arnhem and Pegasus bridge are two locations I promise myself i'll do at some point. A mate told me he listened to TP (no secret our Tone is a big history buff,) on a radio program quite recently talking passionately about visiting Rorke's Drift,apparently it's changed very little since the Infamous Zulu Wars and is redolent with history. It's another one for an ever growing bucket list.
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Apr 27, 2020 15:32:43 GMT
Post by redstriper on Apr 27, 2020 15:32:43 GMT
if you like that one, the pegasus bridge museum in Normandy is also well worth a trip.
Montgomery - genius ? or over-rated ?
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Apr 27, 2020 15:46:42 GMT
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Post by mattador78 on Apr 27, 2020 15:46:42 GMT
So, who on here, during this lockdown has become a subject matter expert (SME) and world authority on specific subjects as a result of binge-watching/reading on a subject. Having spent the last 7 days watching 700 You Tube videos and reading 30 books I am now a self appointed world reknowned expert on Operation Market Garden - the battle for Arnhem. Go on, ask me any question you like. Operation Market GardenA Bridge Too FarWhat size boots was my uncle Bill wearing during the fighting at the bridge?
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Post by tuum on Apr 27, 2020 15:59:39 GMT
So, who on here, during this lockdown has become a subject matter expert (SME) and world authority on specific subjects as a result of binge-watching/reading on a subject. Having spent the last 7 days watching 700 You Tube videos and reading 30 books I am now a self appointed world reknowned expert on Operation Market Garden - the battle for Arnhem. Go on, ask me any question you like. Operation Market GardenA Bridge Too FarWhat size boots was my uncle Bill wearing during the fighting at the bridge? Don't know........ but what I do know is they would be too big for me to fill.
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Post by tuum on Apr 27, 2020 16:02:21 GMT
Never been to Arnhem. It is now on my bucket list. The Airborne Museum at the ex Hartenstein Hotel looks to be decent place to visit. I watched a Battlefield Tours video run by some US Vets that followed the route of the Band of Brothers from D-Day through Market-Garden and into Austria. Would be a good 15-20day European tour for people from the US. I bet it costs a hefty packet mind. I have been promising myself a tour of Northern France at some point + the French ghost town Oradour-sur-Glane. I also want to do the hike on The Freedom Trail through the Pyrenees on the route the escaped PoW's took to get into Spain but I better get a move on before I am too old to do it. So many things to do, so little time. Arnhem and Pegasus bridge are two locations I promise myself i'll do at some point. A mate told me he listened to TP (no secret our Tone is a big history buff,) on a radio program quite recently talking passionately about visiting Rorke's Drift,apparently it's changed very little since the Infamous Zulu Wars and is redolent with history. It's another one for an ever growing bucket list. That's where Churchill apparently got his ideas for the Commandos from. SA Boers not fighting fair...springing surprise attacks with few men and drifting away into the night. Just being a general nuisance really.
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Post by innocentbystander on Apr 27, 2020 16:12:22 GMT
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Post by mattador78 on Apr 27, 2020 16:38:33 GMT
What size boots was my uncle Bill wearing during the fighting at the bridge? Don't know........ but what I do know is they would be too big for me to fill. Nah he was only little. He was captured at Arnhem escaped and then got captured again and put in a work camp until the end of the war. His cousin my uncle “pop” was in the LRDG and then the SRS/SAS in Italy he used to joke that Bill was a great soldier but shit at hide and seek. He lied about his age to join at 16 in 1940, so my great grandad who was ww1 veteran went straight down the recruiting office lied about his age and re enlisted in the same regiment. Bill moved into to the paras when they were formed and my grandad got collared and moved to a reserve regiment then the home guard. My Nan threatened kill them both for doing it. She wasn’t happy as her first husband had been killed in the First World War my grandad was his mate and they hit it off when he came back, while she was kicking off about them her other son from her first marriage my uncle Steve disappears into the RAF and jollies off to Burma for the duration. That generation of my nans family were a bunch of nutters
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Apr 27, 2020 17:53:47 GMT
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Post by chuffedstokie on Apr 27, 2020 17:53:47 GMT
Never been to Arnhem. It is now on my bucket list. The Airborne Museum at the ex Hartenstein Hotel looks to be decent place to visit. I watched a Battlefield Tours video run by some US Vets that followed the route of the Band of Brothers from D-Day through Market-Garden and into Austria. Would be a good 15-20day European tour for people from the US. I bet it costs a hefty packet mind. I have been promising myself a tour of Northern France at some point + the French ghost town Oradour-sur-Glane. I also want to do the hike on The Freedom Trail through the Pyrenees on the route the escaped PoW's took to get into Spain but I better get a move on before I am too old to do it. So many things to do, so little time. I can really recommend the Hartenstein hotel, superb place. Oosterbeek the place to head for.
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Apr 27, 2020 18:14:41 GMT
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Post by bathstoke on Apr 27, 2020 18:14:41 GMT
How many whores were utilised💃
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Apr 27, 2020 18:34:43 GMT
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Post by Dutchpeter on Apr 27, 2020 18:34:43 GMT
The metamorphosis of the frog.
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Post by torgaustokie on Apr 27, 2020 18:53:04 GMT
I was a apprentice Carpenter and Joiner with a guy who had served with the Staffords at Arnhem, then many years whilst working in Germany i became good friends with a ex German Para who had served on the Russian front, total respect to both men who i knew very well and i proud to have been friends with both at different times in my life. And as life goes on today a friend who i met when he was 10 who has served in the German Paras for 6years in now training to be a Officer is BVB and huge Stokie too
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Post by supersimonstainrod on Apr 27, 2020 19:01:42 GMT
I was a apprentice Carpenter and Joiner with a guy who had served with the Staffords at Arnhem, then many years whilst working in Germany i became good friends with a ex German Para who had served on the Russian front, total respect to both men who i knew very well and i proud to have been friends with both at different times in my life. And as life goes on today a friend who i met when he was 10 who has served in the German Paras for 6years in now training to be a Officer is BVB and huge Stokie too Must make a nice change from working with a serial killer....😉
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Post by torgaustokie on Apr 27, 2020 19:49:23 GMT
It was SSS lol also became friends with a Nuclear Physicist who had worked in the USA whilst in Leipzig for a year who the staff in his hotel addressed him as Herr Doctor Professor to me he was Claus lol
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May 3, 2020 17:09:05 GMT
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Post by chuffedstokie on May 3, 2020 17:09:05 GMT
Bridge Too Far on Ch5 now.
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2020 17:43:35 GMT
Arnhem and Pegasus bridge are two locations I promise myself i'll do at some point. A mate told me he listened to TP (no secret our Tone is a big history buff,) on a radio program quite recently talking passionately about visiting Rorke's Drift,apparently it's changed very little since the Infamous Zulu Wars and is redolent with history. It's another one for an ever growing bucket list. That's where Churchill apparently got his ideas for the Commandos from. SA Boers not fighting fair...springing surprise attacks with few men and drifting away into the night. Just being a general nuisance really. I'm currently reading "Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare" by Giles Milton. It's a fascinating insight into the creation of (what ultimately would become SOE) when he was determined to introduce commandos and guerrilla warfare in World War II against the resistance of the established Armed Forces top brass who thought we should play fair and not "lower ourselves" to underhand attacks. Some of the characters involved were more than a little eccentric to say the least. link
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May 3, 2020 17:58:41 GMT
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Post by Dutchpeter on May 3, 2020 17:58:41 GMT
That's where Churchill apparently got his ideas for the Commandos from. SA Boers not fighting fair...springing surprise attacks with few men and drifting away into the night. Just being a general nuisance really. I'm currently reading "Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare" by Giles Milton. It's a fascinating insight into the creation of (what ultimately would become SOE) when he was determined to introduce commandos and guerrilla warfare in World War II against the resistance of the established Armed Forces top brass who thought we should play fair and not "lower ourselves" to underhand attacks. Some of the characters involved were more than a little eccentric to say the least. linkIt’s interesting how the Germans never seemed to develop their own special forces. I can only really think of the rescue of Mussolini as an example of a German special force action.
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Post by mattador78 on May 3, 2020 18:25:28 GMT
I'm currently reading "Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare" by Giles Milton. It's a fascinating insight into the creation of (what ultimately would become SOE) when he was determined to introduce commandos and guerrilla warfare in World War II against the resistance of the established Armed Forces top brass who thought we should play fair and not "lower ourselves" to underhand attacks. Some of the characters involved were more than a little eccentric to say the least. linkIt’s interesting how the Germans never seemed to develop their own special forces. I can only really think of the rescue of Mussolini as an example of a German special force action. They actually did a lot during the invasion of countries at the beginning of the war. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrandenburgersTheir parachute regiment after the invasion of Crete was then used as elite troops certainly in the defence of Monte Cassino in Italy
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Post by somersetstokie on May 3, 2020 19:38:13 GMT
Bridge Too Far on Ch5 now. One of the great scenes in film when the German Soldier carries a white flag onto the bridge and offers to negotiate terms for a surrender. A spokesman for the beleagured British troops says "I'm sorry we can't accept your surrender. We don't have the facilities."
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Post by wagsastokie on May 4, 2020 6:58:51 GMT
What is the air speed velocity of an unladen African swallow? A bit faster than a laden one
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Post by xchpotter on May 4, 2020 7:34:11 GMT
What was the name of the family butchers (now closed) in Meir that was run by an Arnhem veteran?😉
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Post by Northy on May 4, 2020 7:50:50 GMT
Never been to Arnhem. It is now on my bucket list. The Airborne Museum at the ex Hartenstein Hotel looks to be decent place to visit. I watched a Battlefield Tours video run by some US Vets that followed the route of the Band of Brothers from D-Day through Market-Garden and into Austria. Would be a good 15-20day European tour for people from the US. I bet it costs a hefty packet mind. I have been promising myself a tour of Northern France at some point + the French ghost town Oradour-sur-Glane. I also want to do the hike on The Freedom Trail through the Pyrenees on the route the escaped PoW's took to get into Spain but I better get a move on before I am too old to do it. So many things to do, so little time. I was trying to get there last year but couldn't fit it in, I took my dads ashes and put them in his brothers grave in the Reichswald Forestry war cemetery near to Kleve (Ann of Kleves town) near to the Dutch border. My would be uncle died a day before his 19th birthday and about 8 weeks from the end of the war, in something called Operation Veritable, there's a good 3 part series of it on YouTube. They faced some of the SS who some had tied themselves high up in the trees, no surrender no retreat, other units faced the old men and young kids divisions, and the yanks were 2 days late getting there in the pincer movement.
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Post by swampmongrel on May 5, 2020 10:20:42 GMT
Today is Liberation Day in the Netherlands. Many households (you will see some on every street) fly their National Flag from their houses and apartments. The flags actually go up at half mast on the 4th for rememberance of the dead before being raised to full mast on the 5th to mark the liberation.
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