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Just thinking at the weekend about how amazing the footage from Iraq is, some of the stuff is seriously dangerous action. Imagine if thier had been a live newsfeed back from DDay in 1944.

SB

Have you ever seen photographs made by Robert Capa? You don't need film to show the horrors of war if you look at those pictures. He was in every major conflict from the Spanish civil war to Vietnam. The only reporter to parachute into normandy on D-Day.

Just thinking at the weekend about how amazing the footage from Iraq is, some of the stuff is seriously dangerous action. Imagine if thier had been a live newsfeed back from DDay in 1944.

Any action is seriously dangerous. If there had been live feedback during D-Day it would have been wasted, there were no TV sets.

Darn you Prez. I have honestly split my drink over my mouse.

Mind you I have a tendency to chuck stuff. When I'm in a tense bit of a film my hands tighten around the box of popcorn and when something happens my hands simply throw it everywhere . They dont even need to be told anymore - they do it by themselves.

I'm not invited anymore I make too much mess.

T

Think what you would have thought if you had seen this display of cast Iron testicles?

The Mad Piper
Bill Millin, 81, found fame as the soldier who piped Lord Lovat’s 1 Commando Brigade ashore during the landings at Sword Beach in Normandy on 6 June, 1944.
Mr Millin, originally from Sandyhills, Glasgow, went on to play himself in the Hollywood film, The Longest Day, alongside Sean Connery and John Wayne.
Now an image of him stepping on to the Normandy beach-head has been included on a stamp depicting the greatest seaborne invasion ever undertaken.
Mr Millin was labelled the "Mad Piper" by German troops who were captured defending the Normandy beaches.
Lord Lovat told him to ignore army orders banning the playing of bagpipes in battle for fear that the pipers would be picked off by the enemy.
Wearing his kilt, he marched up and down Sword Beach playing Highland Laddie as German bullets rained down around him.

German prisoners interviewed after the beach was in British hands revealed they had not shot Mr Millin because they thought he was mad.

was talking to a fellow who calls himself SapperBrian...he was in the first wave to land on Sword beach at d-day...
ill try and post here wot he said...hopefully doing it justice...

it was all confusion...shells exploding and cordite smoke filling the air..bullets wizzing about....men falling.... into this we went ... soon we had control of the situation and we move in land.

the hedge rows were everywhere..really deadly fighting took place around Caen....the Germans killed in the hedge rows were left to melt into the ground ...i wouldnt be surprised if the bones are still being found...

we moved in to positions at Falaise waiting for the counter attack by the tanks and German troops......it never came....typhoons attacked the enemy positions again and again...we could see the germans trying to get away clambering through hedges and sprinting across paddocks..to no avail...when it was over we couldnt cross the area without standing on bodies... the typhoons firepower was like a destroyer giving a broadside... they picked tiger tanks out of the ground and hurled them onto thier sides...

the bodies wernt picked up they were just left to rot....burial parties were needed else where at the time helping to fight the Germans...


really sobering stuff.....

There's usually some interesting programs on UK History and Discovery detailing the various battles in northern France in the latter stages of the war. Quite a lot of colour footage sometimes too.

Bob,
The reality of war from one who was there. Thanks for the heads up, sobering stuff!

cambridgebloke wrote: Imagine if thier had been a live newsfeed back from DDay in 1944.

SB

THEIR, not thier

If Brains were dynamite, you wouldn`t have enough to blow a milk bottle top off

If we are being picky Bootneck it should be THERE not their which is used for possesion i.e. their incorrect use of grammar.

Its hard being a genius all the time

Phil

There was a photographer who took a number of photos after landing at one of the beaches (Omaha I think). The developer back in England was so anxious to see them that he destroyed most of the film acidently!

Read the book Commando, by John Parker - it talks about Lovat, Millin and the Chruchills.

ph1l wrote:If we are being picky Bootneck it should be THERE not their which is used for possesion i.e. their incorrect use of grammar.



Phil

ph1l, I, was pointing out a spelling mistake, I`m not here to give basic English lessons, but to join in the banter with fellow forum members, however Dumb they may be. It shows what state the country is in, if some, Jackass can`t even get his spelling correct, I don`t pretend to be a scholar, because that i am not, but my education was not taken from books, but from life itself, and from various places around the world. I try and educate my children this way, and this in itself has proven very useful already, especially at school, where the twins actually corrected the teacher on something, and as they had first hand experience, he couldn`t say Jack Schitt.

I think the thread title should be changed from, "Modern Warfare" to, "Handbags at thirty paces" it seems any topic which involves CB, goes for a ball of chalk.

Sorry Matron

cambridgebloke wrote:Sorry Matron

time for your enema, Loz, Flo, NST, Noz, JulesB, Barbie............ he`s all yours be gentle now