What have you been watching?

Watched age of tanks. Learned a lot of Britain's first tanks were not armor plate but common steel. Also that the commander was the driver. One commander driving his tank noticed the gun fire had ceased looks into the fighting compartment and all his gunner were on the floor wounded. Mg fire hits the front of the tank going through now he's wounded gets his tank turned around and makes it back to friendly lines and get medical aid for his men and himself. Like what was the major malfunction, people had to have known they were sending those guys on a suicide mission.

 

Air Force 1943 one of my favorite movies, always liked the story bomber and crew sent to the Philippines after Pearl harbor. Make it and go on offensive against Japanese navy, get attacked by zeros, look like p35, t6 and p43s. Crash land crew repairs over night amazing. Flying heading for friendly base spot Japanese task force radio info and army send more 17s and Navy carrier planes. First the 17s are Es then mix of D&E, then D's then Es. Think the studio could have done a better job of consistency.

 

Museum men episode 2 on YouTube. They build a plywood replica of a seehund, was pretty kewl. Gonna check out episode 8 next
Been watching more videos about German minisubs and reading. Operations were pretty disasterouse. In the beginning with the buyer they lose forty for one cargo ship. The seehund was a game changer more stable and worked great in their first weeks they sank a significant amount of allied shipping. One British admiral said good thing they didn't have them sooner that it was too little too late to make a difference. I think they make a resin one in my scale might have to check it out.

 

Still seems like a rip these guys under the impression they were safe from small arms fire and surprise. I thought the French tanks were bullet proof but much smaller. Was the immense size of the British tanks a factor. Funny that the designers envisioned them to be armored. Was cost another factor.

 

Wasn't Mathilda at its time quite bulletproof compared to other British tanks??

 

When the white tiger is firing isn't the report rather strange.

 

I think your right that there was no set specifications as later production was armor plate just enough to stop standard bullets.

 

Went back to military stuff and was able to watch flying leathernecks without interruption. Also watched 12 o& clock high TV show. Fighting Seabees, has hundreds more, thinking combat next and maybe they were expendable. Trying to find father goose free streaming.

 

Saw they were expendable, on dailymotion, thought it was strange that it said in an article about MTBs that each squadron he 22 boats and the had six three Elmo's and three Higgins. Thought it was funny t6s as zeros, I guess the daughters were maybe B5Ns and the kingfishers were rules. Sands of Iwo Jima on put locker, Flying tigers on internet archive, was interestly to find out the only real plane was the xc12 a failed prototype acquired by RKO as a prop. Full size stage props powered by automotive v8 engines, news reel footage and models on wires, you tube. 12oclock high on YouTube with operation petticoat.

 

Just watched Battle of Britain for the umpteenth time, I never get tired of watching it. The aircraft scenes are great, read a hundred planes were used and the movie helped preserve or even refurbish some planes into flying condition mostly ones that needed slight repairs to be made airworthy. 32 csas2111 were used and 27 ha1112s modified to look more like 109s. One Stuka unflyable two moch ups built on trainers and several rc models. 88 Cruz models were built rc model builders were hired full time to build and fly models. 109 spits were located but 27 were available for the movie 12 flyable two two seat spits used for air filming plus a b25 with cameras in the noses tail waist positions and one to shoot below, the turret setup with radio equitment for the flight director. Because of all the aircraft bought and contracted repairs monifications mock ups the movie went seriously over budget and actually didn't make a profit until home movie sales. It said it had a poor showing in the uk and the USA mostly because of anti war movements at the time. After the movie production was over one ha1112 was donated to a German luftwaffen museum that was modified to 109 g2 configuration. It was considered the first movie to successfully make use of flying models. Wonder what scale the models were the article I read made no mention of scale. Must have been fairly large to get the visual effects they wanted. Anyway it's still one of my top movies even with the historical inaccuracies. One of the crits that they only used the he111 but many do217 and ju88s were involved and some other, but it was still a good entertaining movie to me. Too bad it didn't do well at the box office, most movie critics gave it an ok movie wroth seeing except for a woman critic called it boring, lol, just shows she was using her womanly views and not an opened mined sense of view, like most women hate war movies but love that romantic stuff that most of us guys are like wtf. Lol, the Mars and Venus thing, once made the mistake when my ex complained it was cold I'm like it's not cold I'm in at shirt and why are you cold when women have that extra layer of fat, lol, oops if she had a gun I think she would have shot me, hey they teach you that in anatomy that women have that layer of fat men don't have to control their internal temperature more that use guys. Haha told that to my sisters too.

 

BoB is also my favorite.

You'll enjoy some of the behind the scene images including Galland and Bader.

This historical film has a lot of rejected shots from the movie

 

I've been watching Drachinifel's three-part series on the Pearl Harbor salvage operations.

 

Read about a German WW II 15 cm heavy infantry gun taking out a KV-1 with a direct hit. Probably Vol. 1 of Mortar Gunner on the Eastern Front. Never thought much of that gun in playing PanzerBlitz. LOL.