Operation Market Garden......Mission Impossible?

[Stonker]

He had flair and style and established the red beret as a mark of the para.

Clearly the beginning and end of his talents as a leader in the rank of 3-Star General in the greatest conflict the world has yet known.

Well Done Him

 

[Themanwho]

Clearly the beginning and end of his talents as a leader in the rank of 3-Star General in the greatest conflict the world has yet known.

Well Done Him

Yes, we all know you don't like Browning. Can we move on please?

 

[Stonker]

Yes, we all know you don't like Browning. Can we move on please?

Turn your guns on his fanboiz. I'll happily drop the subject - it leaves a nasty taste in my mouth.

 

[BratMedic]

Jim Hooper is very ill at the moment.

 

[medwaymud]

Here is a personal testimony I have never heard before - very vivid.

 

[Choux Bun]

I tried everything legal. Passing Cloud was an old Irish favourite I think. Never came across your brand though. Sobranie were ok, but became quite common. Probably the best femembered was on the third week of that massive exercise we used to do in Germany - pipe tobacco rolled in army issue bog paper!

I have never been a smoker, but was advised to carry a couple of packs (bright orange boxes) of Du Maurier when patrolling on the Inner German Border. The Russian/East Germnan guards loved them and I obtained a set of KGB collar dogs and a VolksArme belt buckle for just one pack - 20 cigs cost peanuts in the NAAFI!!

 

[MoleBath]

A fascinating look at the quality of maps around Arnhem and the effect on command decisions.

https://www.charlesclosesociety.org/files/Issue87page11.pdf

 

[jockparamedic]

I have never been a smoker, but was advised to carry a couple of packs (bright orange boxes) of Du Maurier when patrolling on the Inner German Border. The Russian/East Germnan guards loved them and I obtained a set of KGB collar dogs and a VolksArme belt buckle for just one pack - 20 cigs cost peanuts in the NAAFI!!

Which proves that squaddies are just squaddies the world over no matter what uniform they wear.

 

[Chef]

'Theirs is the glory' (1946) is on Talking Pictures, Freeview 81 at 3:20pm today. A good film on the subject.

 

[Themanwho]

'Theirs is the glory' (1946) is on Talking Pictures, Freeview 81 at 3:20pm today. A good film on the subject.

Thank you, just put on to record!

 

[Chef]

Thank you, just put on to record!

Talking Pictures has some good films on. Theirs is the glory seems to pop up from time to time. Worth looking at the week ahead in the week end mags.

 

[Themanwho]

Talking Pictures has some good films on. Theirs is the glory seems to pop up from time to time. Worth looking at the week ahead in the week end mags.

Yes indeed, I recorded The Guns at Batasi before Xmas on the Channel IIRC.

 

[MoleBath]

Yes indeed, I recorded The Guns at Batasi before Xmas on the Channel IIRC.

Bofors in the direct fire role.

 

[Themanwho]

Bofors in the direct fire role.

Taken out by an angry RSM with a Sterling and a couple of Mills bombs.


Top film!

 

[putteesinmyhands]

Top film!

A JR in the Sgts' Mess? Did nobody think to put him behind the bar?

 

[Themanwho]

A JR in the Sgts' Mess? Did nobody think to put him behind the bar?

Well they stuck him on stag outside on the veranda and he still managed to bang the dolly; imagine the chaos if he'd been allowed in the bar!

 

[Stonker]

'Theirs is the glory' (1946) is on Talking Pictures, Freeview 81 at 3:20pm today. A good film on the subject.

It is - but I can't help thinking a significant proportion of the Officers were taking the pi$$ with the dial set to '11' when they 're-enacted' their own parts in the fight.

 

[CutLunchCommando]

A fascinating look at the quality of maps around Arnhem and the effect on command decisions.

https://www.charlesclosesociety.org/files/Issue87page11.pdf

Even if the maps were poor would there not have been PR and visual/verbal reports once surprise was no longer an issue?

 

[Chef]

It is - but I can't help thinking a significant proportion of the Officers were taking the pi$$ with the dial set to '11' when they 're-enacted' their own parts in the fight.

I'm not surprised at all. I believe a number of them had been at the rehearsal for the film in September 44.

 

[Stonker]

a number of them had been at the rehearsal

Not just 'a number of them'. There's not a single actor in that movie.

All of the people you see in the film were involved in the battle, re-enacting events in which they were involved during the battle.

The movie was filmed in Arnhem/Oosterbeek.​

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All events portrayed in the movie were filmed at the places where they took place in 1944, and the filming took place while the battle was still very, very fresh in the hearts and minds of 'The Cast of Players'.​

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It deserves to be watched attentively, but very thoughtfully, in any number of ways.