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Just last night one of our TV stations had a poll of the 100 best War Films... Here's a link: http://www.channel4.com/film/newsfeatures/microsites/W/greatest_warfilms/results/100-96.html 1. Saving Private Ryan, 1998 2. Apocalypse Now, 1979 3. The Great Escape, 1963 4. Schindler's List, 1993 5. Full ...

Surely the big industrial families..

Krupps

Thyssen etc?

Any thoughts regards the difference ways nations have remembered VE DAY?

ie France was quite militaristic.
UK... low key sub-Remembrance Day.
Germany low key church services.....

"Never in the field of human conflict has so much, been owed by so few, to so many".

Common belief after BoB re: RAF fighter pilots.

Reb and Sid how do you view Ghurkhas....I know bit off thread but, Could you technically class them as mercenaries, as they are foreign nationals in the service of another power... whether it be Britain or Brunei. Do you differentiate between the Ghurkhas and say Fijians or Grenadans that serve if t...

I've been considering planting some claymores into my boarders....

But would a point defence system, like a phalanx, be over the top....
I'm not sure how it would be received by the planners.... does it make a difference that I live in a Grade 2 listed building?

Mr Krupps.

Have you seen the Caine Mutiny, with Humprey Bogart.......
ole Humph has the white warpaint on.........

Mmmm check the original poster's location.

"If you do the math then the kill ratio was 43 FERDINANDS to 654 Soviet tanks or 1 to 15.21. Not bad for a panzer without a machinegun. From 16 December 1943 to 10 January 1944, schwere Panzerjäger-Regiment 656 was transported to Austria since they were desperately in need of a complete overhau...

Cheers WT....

I may chase this thread up.

How about the reverse? Most successful US fighter pilot with German kills.......

Apologies MattL.... wasn't very clear you and Ron delivered pretty impartial and sound info.... whereas the poxy net (spent reading 40-50 articles on Ferds).... most took the easy route out and repeated the old sore.... no MG = deathtrap against infantry.... Most of the stuff was highly derivative.....

We shouldn't worry too much...

He's been picked to hold the party line and continue JP2's work, which is quite hardline.
He ain't go to last forever, he's 78..... so good for 2-5 years.

No 1 hits the nail on the head. I am assuming that a request for US citizens to donate (for the duration) small arms. I believe this would have been pre-Pearl Harbour? but post Dunkirk. I think the government would have advertised in the US press. It seems odd, as you would get a wide array of weapo...