See my post 13 for the link.

Ahh yes, didn’t spot that while I was flicking through the thread 🙂

Just wondering, isn’t the flag on his arm the wrong way round?
I know it sounds strange having it backwards but wasn’t that an old heraldry / civil war thing of always carrying your banner `into` battle.

I’m probably wrong and it’s a nice figure.
I’ll post my 1/6th Para this evening if I get the time.

On Mythbusters they did a test where they fired a bullet perfectly vertically up in the air. These bullets fell to earth harmlessley. Given just a slight off center and the rounds came down leathally if not to cause serious injury.

So I would expect a shell case to not do much damage (cannon shell might hurt I guess), but the rounds fired from the guns would probably smack into the ground with some force.

I’m surprised no one was killed on the ground by falling rounds rather than cases.

What all these things demonstrate is that some people have no compassion, which I think is a very sad indictment for mankind. To kill is one thing, but to have not a jot of feeling for the one you kill (whether man or beast) is very, very sad.
Where I live we have seen children trample a fawn to death, a man decapitate a swan and I read somewhere of children who suffocated small kittens in a bag.
Why?

Lets send in the carriers and the harriers, oh wait…, what the hell we still have the Vulcan.

Did the Falco’s score any hits, kills during the BoB? They must have mixed it a bit as the one at RAF Hendon was shot down.

I noticed the other day when watching the filme Cruel Sea the word “INERT” stamped quite clearly on the side of the Depth Charges in the scene where they fire them off to attack a sub. Funny but I’ve watched that film so many times and never spotted it. It’s so obvious! A bit like the Star Wars stormtrooper head on door frame gaf.