How to---odd ways to kill a tiger.. ?

You need to go watch that movie again. Captain Miller was with the 2nd Ranger batallion, sent to save private Ryan of the 101st Airborne.

The 2nd Ranger batallion didn't actually assault Omaha Beach by the way, that was 5th Ranger batallion. The 2nd bn assaulted the gun emplacement at Pointe du Hoc. One of the glaring inaccuracies of SPR.

 

OH YEAH-

HE WAS REALLY CAPTAIN HOWEY OF THE 29TH INFANTRY/ 116TH REGIMENT ( the mayor of St Lo)

http://www.staunton.com/116th/



That is who the book 's character was patterned after...

He was a school teacher

BTW its Saving Private Nyland



thanks for the correction, you know I know better

 

here is the Howey 29th/ 116th regiment thread

http://www.fun-online.sk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2356

 

the 'Stonewall' brigade

It is believed that historian Stephen Ambrose, author of the acclaimed book, "Citizen Soldier," and consultant on the movie, "Saving Private Ryan," based the character of the Captain, played by Tom Hanks, on Thomas Howie. The Ranger Unit to which the Captain was attached landed at Omaha Beach, where Howie's Battalion landed. The Captain in the movie had the same paternal nature with his men as had been attributed to Howie. Also, on point was the Captain's revelation to his men that he had coached and taught English in high school for 11 years before going to war.

EDIT

 

Re: aziz

Well no need to apologize, some stories are so indredible that they can only be true !
Good work Merlin !

 

Back to the sword/tank story.

The version from, "I Serve" is slightly different to the previous versions...

In here we have 2 Japanese attacking the tank, we have other British soldiers shooting at them (killing 1), we have no mention of the tank's Commander (Capt. Cornaby) being shoved back down his hatch...

We also have a credible reason for the loader (Trp. Jenkins) not being killed - sword gets stuck.

The big sticking point is still the officer getting his sword into the Grant. I assume that it was through the top turret.
What diameter is the hatch, and what is inside the turret that could get in the way?

 

aziz

Oh!Ricky! "the big sticking point" to quote a recent email 'I wish I'd thought of that'!.
If, as I suspect, the tank commander was riding well out of his turret there would be no big problem pulling him out completely.
One thing you can be sure of, Tpr.Jenkins deserved his MM. the British Army is not known for handing out medals to ordinary troopers!!!
The only one I received was for the battle at 'Naafiqueue'.

 

Was just about to complain that there is no such place as 'Naafiqueue', but then I got it

FNG

 

I didn't got it. Do you need to be british to understand this?

 

N.A.A.F.I = Navy, Army and Airforce Institute commonlt referred to as NAAFI.

Typically supply canteen and shop facilities to our forces.


http://www.naafi.co.uk/

The only naafiqueue I ever got cought in was in RAF Cosford in 1976 and that was to get out once we realised it was so bad!

 

Found this at A.H.F.

Felt that I was duty bound to post it here in this thread. Hope no-one else beat me to it.........

 

LOL

sword jokes anyone?

 

Well : The apple is mightier than the sword ?

Nice and amusing story David, do you have any source or link ?

Certainly odd things sometimes happens,
I have read about a tankman throwing an apple instead of his hand grenade in the heat of battle (I think it was in 'Tank' by Ken Tout, a fictious story about a tank battle in France in 1944)

 

apple

I bet he was in the 'APPLE CORPS'
I did hear of the chap who kept the bomb and threw the pin!

 

The question is, was it a red apple or a green apple?

Unless I see some reliable corrorabtive evidence I don't believe the story if it involves a red apple as it would be just so obvious.

FNG

 

MEBBE IT WAS A PINEAPPLE..

 

So we went from Boxing matches inside Tigers, to Anime-fighting inside Grants, and back to the Tigers with crews mistaking an Apple for a Grenade.

Ugh.

 

Comet Fan. Will post link later.

Danyel. I assume you are joking?

Merlin. was your grenade pin thrower a member of the Irish Guards?

Stonewall. Nice one!.

 

I really love the humor on this forum.

 

It can't have happened. There were no Tigers in action against Operation Market Garden. The event referred to must have been 107th Panzer Brigade's attack on the bridge at Son, which failed because the 101st used a 57mm gun against the Panthers at close range while they approached single file. Read Steiner's article for some details.