In a light hearted aside if the Germans had invaded Gibraltar would they have been able to retain their equipment. I have visited Gibraltar twice...
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I am terrible for being diverted from the original thread of investigation and keep finding things that appear perhaps more interesting. I really...
Thank you Florence , and also your friends, for making this wonderful time capsule available to us. I have visited benkaplow.com and its a great...
I started using computers at work must be 20 years ago to control lathes. Now its just for leisure. Hooked up the internet about 10/12 years ago...
Salute ..a great entertainer who will be long remembered far and wide...richardS
From The Sidelines What a Battle of the Giants..and I dont mean Great Britain and Prussia. Absolutely fascinating and so well researched....
Chechnya is ,like a lot of places, a dangerous place to ask questions of the wrong people. It seems the usual thing in some parts the ex USSR...
Thank you brndirt.1 for that. I was ignorant of what you have told me. I was puzzled because way back in your Civil War the British supported the...
Knee and elbow pads come as standard issue .I reckon you may spend a lot of time falling off. Look about as useful as adult mini scooters that...
I like quotations, however one never finds out who thought the original line good enough to use as a quotation. ( I think that makes sense.?)
Kruska hello. Your references to " those Southerners" also puzzled me. I know little of US internal politics pre WW2. I thought the pro Germany...
Carl, great post about the canon in somebody's garden. I know some people own tanks in the UK but I have never heard of an artillery peice in some...
One of the eight British soldiers came from the small country town in which I live, another from the industrial town in which I was born. I...
My Dad had no objection to the RN but anything with US on it he could not stand. However no need to be offended my Dad did not like anybody US ,...
When I was a kid I wanted to work on a USNavy Aircraft carrier. I even applied to join. You may think it strange as I am English. They were kind...
Kruska,I admit when I saw the first post I thought it was prime Troll material, but the many members who have posted here have made this an...
Thank you Slipdigit. I did not want you to think I was treating the forum with disrespect. " Two Nations separated by a common language" came to...
Slipdigit if that was aimed at my post you have read something in it that was not there. Starting from the first quite simple question I have...
British Tabloids are notorious for printing scandal , half truths and lies. If they can pay a celebrity to put their name to it even better.The...
