Military Youtubes and Videos.

An amazing find.
"What is believed to be the earliest footage of a women's football match in the UK has been found in a Norwegian archive.
The 41-second video, which was filmed on April 20, 1918 - when the First World War was in its final months - was found by author Patrick Brennan.
It shows the amateur players of Dagenham-based Sterling Ladies and Dartford's Vickers Ladies competing in Chalkwell Park, in Southend-On-Sea, Essex.
The women, who played out a 2-2 draw, are seen dressed in long-sleeved sweatshirts, ties and bobble hats.
Also seen in the footage are dozens of soldiers who had turned out to watch the women play, including one officer who has his arm in a sling after being wounded in fighting against Germany.
Both sides were made up of amateur players who were competing to raise money for three war hospitals in Southend.
Whilst Sterling Ladies were made up of workers in Britain's munitions industry, the Vickers side worked for the engineering firm of the same name, which manufactured items including guns, artillery, ships and planes during the war."
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10688295/First-video-womens-football-match-Essex-1918-discovered.html

 

I had something like that! You had to try and land a Harrier jump jet on a flat 'runway'. Think they were made by Matchbox.

 

Ed McMahon was a Marine Corps pilot in WWII and Korea. He was carrier qualified, served as a flight instructor for the F4U corsair, had 85 combat missions, and retired from the Marine Corps Reserve in 1966 as a Colonel. California made him an honorary Brigadier General in the California Air national Guard.

TV Entertainer Ed McMahon Served in the Marine Corps During 3 Wars > U.S. Department of Defense > Story

 

It was- for a wee while.

 

I'd forgotten about George Gobel, the man was hilarious.

 

Tha were lucky. We were so poor, we had to sleep in shoebox in t'middle o' road.

 

Shoebox!? Pure luxury…