Wish I could have fought in WWII...

There is a chance of getting killed while not even in operational service in any given theater. Such as a jeep crash, getting shot by a drunk private, or maybe a training accident and you are the unfortunate person to get a 'Roman Candle' while para trooping.

 

That is a great movie I watced it and I own it it shows how miserable war can be. For those that want to go back in time to be in ww2 watch this movie especially the ending. The name is All Quiet on the Westorn Front.:snowstorm::mourn:

 

I agree did not think that far.

 

The Battalion. Plain and simple.

 

There is no such thing as revives or restart in war when you get killed your done. I have taught this story before.:blasted:

 

Originally Posted by SMLE shooter
That is a great movie I watced it and I own it it shows how miserable war can be. For those that want to go back in time to be in ww2 watch this movie especially the ending. The name is All Quiet on the Westorn Front.:snowstorm::mourn:


And yet 'All Quiet on the Western Front" was about WWI . It a great movie about war and its effects. PRE WWII. WWII was only similar in some respects. This coming from someone who slammed Kai for suggesting someone watch the first 20 minutes of "Saving Private Ryan".

 

What do you mean slammed? I simply ment that some of the members do not like if you watch movies.

 

Actually the beach landing sequence in SPR is great cinema. As for the rest of the film, well, it's as "noteworthy" as say, Samuel Fuller's Big Red One or Edward Dmytryk's Anzio. Remember the 'Tiger' in SPR at the end in the urban fight cranking it's gun to first floor? Geez

Son, you can watch as many movies as you want starting with Mary Poppins! Just don't think of using them as basis for any argument as movies are made for the purposes of either entertainment or propaganda, certainly not History. That is the point I'm trying to make.

 

Exactly Za. As I have said many times before. Films and Videogames and TV are first and formost to make money and entertain. Accuracy and truth come far behind. Some are a little more accurate then others. And it a shame that real war is not as exciting for some that it has to be embellished for them to want to watch.And then some come here and present information that is incorrect based on what they have seen.

 

Son, you can watch as many movies as you want starting with Mary Poppins! Just don't think of using them as basis for any argument as movies are made for the purposes of either entertainment or propaganda, certainly not History. That is the point I'm trying to make.[/QUOTE]


Actually, You are incorrect there old bean.....I have pictures from my old great great grandads brothers step brother twice removed's friends uncle, documenting the battle scene on top of London city square mile in Mary Poppins.

The battle of the sweeps as it later became known...His relative was the standard bearer for the queens sweepers 2nd battalion 1st regiment, known as the Chim, chimmineys because of their service in India against the Pathan tribesmen in the pay of the Russians.

Chim chimminey being their password on the Khyber pass route to Afghanistan, chosen because of the inability of Russian troops to articulate the sound iney...they pronounce it enney as we all know...this enabled the regiment to clear the rooftops of all Russian sweepers and thus earn a posting back to blighty, just in time to take part in the battle of Londons rooftops, a battle not acknowledged by the govt of the time due to the liason with American sweeps who were in fact agents of the American sweepstakes association.

So how you can possibly have a go at our young colleague and his reference to such movies is beyond me....Mary Poppins as all Brits know is a realistic portrayal of British life at the turn of the century, and if it was not for the bravery of the sweeps portrayed in the movie, we could all well be speaking a foreign language now, and the city of London and the banking and financial institutions could be in danger of collapse and the country in a financial mess.....Thank God for Mary Poppins, as we all know, its a jolly holiday with Mary.

I have pictures of the rooftop battle, just ask...

 

I am staggered that any pictures could have been taken during such a grim conflict. Surely no photographer, even one hardened at Isandlwana, could have plied his trade in the face of such tremenous deployment of accents?

 

Funny you should mention Iswan, iswananan...iswan...that rock place, did I ever tell you about my great great great uncle Paddy? Keeper of the 1/24 goat mascots lead?

The movie missed his epic role in the battle....He was first to sight the zulu horde as they swept past the outposts and dongas....Being an early proponent of special forces and a camoflauge expert, he was inadvertantly taking said goat for its early morning ablutions when the cry Zulu went up from the camp to his rear....well what could he do...but lay low, let the horn sweep past, take off his uniform and mingle with the crowd....Which is why to this day we in our extended family have a great aversion to all Welsh singing. As when he did manage to make his way later to the river crossing at Rourkes Drift, he was accosted by a welsh male voice choir singing Men of Harlech and shooting in his direction. It is understandable that he legged it to Durban post haste and I still cannot to this day agree with the sentence of the court martial and subsequent firing squad which brought shame on the family name for years after...Surely he too was a casualty of war.

But perhaps now I should leave this thread to others who wish to discuss the role of where I would serve in a more serious manner....

Of course without question I would most certainly serve with the Kings own Highlanders, I think its the goat, theres something about the regimental goat that draws me...

 

As the facts show, the Goat is a corrupt leech-like fatcat living high on public funds.
The selfless Ferret is plainly a more noble creature.

 

Ahh...but how many ferrets have seen action.....come on, bring your stats on to that one....Goats thru the years have served this country and the county regiments well in all fields...fields being the well you know what I mean...My own grandad told me many stories of his admiration for regimental goats...apparantly many regiments were led by old goats and nannies according to him and I would never doubt the word of an old soldier, I have never though heared of a ferret leading men into action...Ferreting away is just not the same as the old command heard on many a field of action....goats to the front...

Even to this day, I must challenge your figures as we all know many of todays regiments are surely led by goats of some sort. Ill ask Steffan he will know the real truth...as a young serviceman of todays generation Im sure he will give us the low down and merits of being led into battle by either a goat or a ferret and its affect on morale....then again he would probably shoot the thing...I think its time to go before Jc gets that rifle of his into the shoulder position too....but there is a question...what do reinactors use? Plastic goats? plastic ferrets or groundhogs...

 

You will never see the noble ferret merely leading troops into action.
He only operates on the most dangerous of covert missions under cover of complete darkness, he is by nature a loner, but always a hero.
Even when wearing his darling little Cap and Jacket...

I will concede that the corrupt goat has one major advantage, namely it's superior 'chickeny-rabbit' taste and volume of meat in times of extremis.

I believe the reenactment community substitute any particularly elongated mice they happen to find for the military ferret, him being such a lethal and haughty creature for the untrained to handle.

 

This thread has gone awol, sorry JC im going....but just to point out to Von Poop that his mention of the humble rabbit is in itself related to warfare and deserves an honourable mention in dispatches...The humble rabbit....if it wasnt for the 1066 invasion our lands would be rabbit free...damn that William...Hatings....the first battle where the command Eyes RIGHT!!! was used and Harold fell for the cheap French trickery.....would we thus be a much different nation now but for that fateful day, and no confusion in the officers mess when served rabbits legs....no sir its not chicken...a cry heared around many a mess when Rupert and Stefan sit down to eat...

As to you insinuation that any British regiment would eat its mascot in times of utter peril, I refute that....If this were so, then you would never see any page 3 models volunteering again...

I must admit to though, always wandering who did bite thru the telephone wire at Princess Gate before the SAS went in...a brilliant action if it was indeed the ferret....kudos to the ferret...I admit defeat to von poops superior knowledge on matters rats and things....rats...desert rats...no I have to go...perhaps others should espouse just what animal they would have been in ww2....sorry Jc going....gone....

 

Or maybe quite the opposite...

 

Especially if she comes from Aldershot

 

I understand I don"t base my history on movies. I do like to watch movies to . I can"t watch ww2 unless I watch movies I mean ther is quick clips but they"re soooooooo short. People think I base history on movies. I just like to watch them, I have a box of ww2 dictionaries. and a few other ww2 books.

 

As I said before in http://www.ww2f.com/weapons-wwii/26416-top-10-worst-tanks-war-4.html

Misterioulsy your post on the "three historians" simply disappeared. Go figure . I wonder why you simply ceased writing in that thread. Too much people replying negatively to you? What a surprise, I wonder what made them do so.

How old are you? And why do I bother responding to you?