Apologies if I seem to ignore your email, but little in it seems to have much (if any) relevance to the core of the matter and little would be...
The purpose of my repeating this post in this section, re the possible use of flamethrowers by the Germans, was because I had put it somewhere...
The premise of the thread was - " Did the Germans use flamethrowers against the Allies in Northern Europe after D-Day ?. If others have taken up...
Me too ! Nobody can question the Duke's contribution to the war effort !! BG
I think it highly likely that event was by no means unusual, but was merely made more obvious by the particular circumstances. First of all there...
Was it only me, or did others find this moving ? I watched footage recently of the recent ceremonies conducted at various foreign cemeteries to...
Yeah, I know - I'm sorry not to have provided a lnk but I am sure that it'll be easy to find. I guess that 10 r.p.s. of those little muthas...
majorwoody10 you are sure right, that Tommy is a beaut of a weapon ! That rate of fire AND a .45 cartridge !! Wow !!!! One other query. I...
The deaths of two troopers of the Queens Royal Lancers when their Challenger was fired on by another have been given quite an airing in the press...
"Contemtible Little Army" ? - I think not !!!! You got that right, amigo, but even nowadays time spent drilling and bulling ( polishing one's...
Peg sticking I omitted to say in my last mail as above, that a peg is a five inch piece of wood and was originally a tent peg. The lancer would...
Sure, a lance equipped unit is unlikely to defeat one armed with guns, and Lancers ( in the UK, at least ) were also generally equipped with a...
Intersting replies ! Thank you, guys ! I quite accept that a cavalry horse and rider are trained to use the shock effect of movement to best...
Wow !- that is gobsmackingly impressive ! To be able to recall that amount of information ! Mind you, Ossian, you haven't said what key it...
Thanks Tom (and others), your kind offers of advice/help are sincerely appreciated ! I shall get "'er Indoors" (being half my age, she is twice...
BBC- hopelessly biased !! It is widely accepted within the UK that the BBC is populated by left wing pansies or ethnic skirted, sandal wearing...
I understand that there has lately been an outbreak of what are caled "nags" in IT jargon. These are displays that appear on the screen purporting...
I read this morning in my paper the obituary of Rear-Admiral Eugene Fluckey on June 28th. This officer was aged 93 when he died and was one of...
A large glass of "Maker's Mark" ! I should have added as a post script to my last message, that I typed it with a very large glass of "Maker's...
Absolutment ! But didn't Herr Hitler only make it as far as Corporal, and then he swung the other ranks by dint of oppression, tyranny and...
