Congratulations to Mr. Prewitt. It should be noted, however, that France’s highest order of merit is called the Legion of Honour (Légion d’honneur), not the Legion of Armour, and also that France doesn’t actually have knighthoods in the same sense as Britain does. “Chevalier” (knight) is indeed one of the Legion of Honour’s five levels, and the name is a holdover from the days when France still had an aristocracy, but the French nobility system went out the window with the French Revolution. I once saw a series of amusing cartoons depicting what life in France would be like today if the Bourbon monarchy hadn’t fallen, and one of them showed an irate air traveler standing at the ticket counter of “Royal Air France” and telling the ticket agent “But I’m a baron and I have a confirmed reservation!” The agent replies, “I’m sorry, sir, but the Duke of So-and-so has precedence over you, so we gave him your seat.” In fairness, the same sort of thing actually happens in real-life republican France. A few years ago, there was scandal involving one of the major D-Day anniversaries (I think it was the 50th one), when the French government contacted various hotels in Normany and appropriated some of their existing reservations so that various French officials could have rooms for the event. Some of those rooms, however, had been reserved by foreign veterans of the D-Day invasion. When the story broke on the front page of French newspapers (under such headlines as “Our Liberators Insulted!”), public opinion was outraged and the French government beat a hasty retreat. The prevailing editorial opinion over this affair was: Do this to our own citizens if you want, but don’t do this to the heroes who ended the occupation of France.
You May Be A WWII Junkie
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How about WWII nose art on your car, along with mission markers on the doors….do I qualify?
Next will be the shark mouth with the eyes too
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….If you pretend your Ford Fiesta is an F4-F Wildcat and Japanese SUVs are Japanese bombers during your morning commute.
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….If you pretend your Ford Fiesta is an F4-F Wildcat and Japanese SUVs are Japanese bombers during your morning commute.
lol qualified!
@suprise:
How about WWII nose art on your car, along with mission markers on the doors….do I qualify?
Next will be the shark mouth with the eyes too
hmmm bullet holes interstinglol qualified!
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“You may be a WWII Junkie if … You can identify random silhouette’s of WWII vehicles, and know exactly what they are, when they were produced, what country(ies) they were manufactured by, what theater’s they fought in, and how many may still be running today.”
That be me
And you can ID tanks used in WW2 movies like PATTON, Battle of the Bulge and Kelly’s Heroes from what they really are and scream Bull-Shitake at the screen.
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@suprise:
How about WWII nose art on your car, along with mission markers on the doors….do I qualify? Next will be the shark mouth with the eyes too hmmm bullet holes intersting
Very impressive! Yes, definitely qualified.
I once saw a TV movie in which a somewhat unscrupulous junk dealer was on the phone with a client, trying to sell him a small WWII aircraft (I think a little two-seater reconnaissance plane) he’d acquired. The dealer energetically vouched for the plane’s alleged combat record, saying that “It’s even got a bullet hole in it!” In the next scene, we see a close-up of the plane’s side. The dealer’s hand appears from off-screen and fires a revolver into the plane; his other hand then appears and puts a small sign “WWII Battle Damage” next to the hole.
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@CWO:
@suprise:
How about WWII nose art on your car, along with mission markers on the doors….do I qualify? Next will be the shark mouth with the eyes too hmmm bullet holes intersting
Very impressive! Yes, definitely qualified.Â
I once saw a TV movie in which a somewhat unscrupulous junk dealer was on the phone with a client, trying to sell him a small WWII aircraft (I think a little two-seater reconnaissance plane) he’d acquired. The dealer energetically vouched for the plane’s alleged combat record, saying that "It’s even got a bullet hole in it!" In the next scene, we see a close-up of the plane’s side. The dealer’s hand appears from off-screen and fires a revolver into the plane; his other hand then appears and puts a small sign “WWII Battle Damage” next to the hole.
I love watching Pawn Star! Oh wait a minute…nevermind :-D
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I love watching Pawn Star! Oh wait a minute…nevermind
It was the pilot movie for the TV series “Salvage 1”, featuring a home-made spaceship that travels to the Moon. (No, I’m not talking about the first Wallace and Gromit film, though I admit that I hadn’t caught the similarity between the two plots until just now.)
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And you can ID tanks used in WW2 movies like PATTON, Battle of the Bulge and Kelly’s Heroes from what they really are and scream Bull-Shitake at the screen.
Ahhh!!! I hate that. I was young enough when I saw Battle of the Bulge that it didn’t really matter, but now when I watch BotB or Patton, I can’t help but cringe at the would be German (and sometimes American) tanks.
At least they made some effort to disguise the T-34 in Kelly’s Heroes.
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….If you pretend your Ford Fiesta is an F4-F Wildcat and Japanese SUVs are Japanese bombers during your morning commute.
Haha! Love this!
Too bad I own a Honda Civic, but I suppose I can still play.
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….If you pretend your Ford Fiesta is an F4-F Wildcat and Japanese SUVs are Japanese bombers during your morning commute.
Haha! Love this!
Too bad I own a Honda Civic, but I suppose I can still play.
I love this comment!
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Too bad I own a Honda Civic
A regular one or a combat modification of the standard model?
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@CWO:
Too bad I own a Honda Civic
A regular one or a combat modification of the standard model?
Standard model… with the addition of a bass amp in the trunk. At least I will sound cool as I shoot down all those Fiestas and Impalas.
I just need some Red meatballs on my doors and my metallic silver paint job will look perfect. (I should probably remove the Iwo Jima flag raising sticker from my window though).
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Standard model… with the addition of a bass amp in the trunk. At least I will sound cool as I shoot down all those Fiestas and Impalas.
I just need some Red meatballs on my doors and my metallic silver paint job will look perfect.Sounds good. The Douglas Aircraft Company went to a lot less trouble to convert the civilian DC-3 into the military C-47 Dakota: basically, they just added a large cargo door to one side of the fuselage and painted the airplane green. No stereo sound system, regretably. Life was simpler in those days.
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Too bad I own a Honda Civic
I was re-watching the Jerry Bruckheimer / Michael Bay film “The Rock” last night and this amusing line (delivered by Nicolas Cage) reminded me of your post: “Look, I’m just a biochemist. Most of the time, I work in a little glass jar and lead a very uneventful life. I drive a Volvo – a beige one.”
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@CWO:
Too bad I own a Honda Civic
I was re-watching the Jerry Bruckheimer / Michael Bay film “The Rock” last night and this amusing line (delivered by Nicolas Cage) reminded me of your post: “Look, I’m just a biochemist. Most of the time, I work in a little glass jar and lead a very uneventful life. I drive a Volvo – a beige one.”
Never seen it, but I am glad that my simple words could bring some joy to life. :-D
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Never seen it
I recommend it. Top notch military-themed action/adventure movie with good character development, suspense, an unusually complex bad guy, fine acting by Ed Harris and Sean Connery, some bits of well-calibrated (i.e. non-stupid) humour, great pacing, lots of stuff that blows up real good, and an extended sequence of vehicular mayhem in downtown San Francisco which is all the more impressive for the fact that it used real cars and trucks and trolleys rather than CGI. They don’t make 'em like that anymore.
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if you are playing A&A by yourself, while watching WHERE EAGLES DARE on one TV, TORA TORA TORA on another TV, watching SAVING PRIVATE RYAN on your smartphone, and watching MIDWAY on your tablet all at the same moment?
hmmmmmm… i wonder if the psych ward is open today? :roll:
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Wasn’t sure where to throw these, but I found them today on some other forum and thought they were awesome.
Granted this is pre-war, but the re-colorization is amazing. Feels like you are there. This is either Yorktown or Enterprise; likely Enterprise judging by the air group markings. Man were those planes gaudy.
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