OK, had to do some digging here... H3 was stranded on the Californian coast and the USN decided not to pay for commercial salvage. After...
Is it not the Orcish name for Sauron's Dark Tower? (Barad Dur)
Merry Christmas, one and all!
I think I would just wind up the gramophone....
Battle of Barking Creek -- a slight misunderstanding involving a Hurricane squadron heading south meeting a Spit squadron heading north...
Wasn't the Milwaukee lost going to the assistance of the sub, which was in some sort of trouble -- sunk or stranded or something?
I think the story of the Sunderland fighting off numerous Ju-88s is fairly well documented (e.g. http://www.n461.com/) and there are some...
Could we please cast Catherine Zeta Jones as the Sunderland?
Close, but no cigar.....
Amen
The song has got to be "Who ate all the pies?" Go on, put us out of our misery!
HMS Tiger (Woods) ?
Geddaway! :P
Too long to post, but look up Kipling's immortal "Tommy Atkins" Some things never change.... They shall not grow old, as we who are left grow...
HMS Patia rises from the deep?
Back to Ghurka's, its well worth reading the first volume of John Masters' autobiography "Bugles and a Tiger" -- he was a junior officer in a...
Been away for far too long! (Real life catching up with me) Anyway, its good to be back here again Tom
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/6996734.stm
Pre WW2 Jaguar SS100 (SS90 at a pinch..) British Racing Green, obviously, but the one here's not too bad either... [img]
I thought that was BMW drivers! I like the twunt, though -- that will be used a lot, alongside "pillock"
