Don’t take too much comfort
From having the enemy in view
Because if the enemy is in range
Then by extension so are you
Saturday, 31 July 2021
MILITARY OBSERVATION
Monday, 26 July 2021
THE AVRO SHACKLETON
The Avro Shackleton
Was
a long-range British
Maritime
patrol aircraft
Which
came into service
With
the RAF in 1951
It
was a distant cousin
Of
the legendary Lancaster
Which
evolved first
Into
the Lincoln
And
then into the Shackleton
Its
speciality was
Anti-submarine
warfare
Then
airborne early warning
And
search and rescue
It
was finally retired in 1990
VENGEANCE WEAPONS
Vicious product of the conquered
Exploding
on the unsuspecting
Not
aimed at the soldiers
Generals
or other men of war
Experimental
weapons
Aimed
not at military targets
Nor
at the politicians that send men to war
Chariots
of death
Exploding
on the innocents
Wiping
out whole families
Eliminating
the non combatants
Aimlessly
targeted at a city
People
helpless to escape
Ordinary
people doing ordinary things
Not
foot soldiers on German soil
Spiteful
vengeance of Hitler
THE AIRSPEED HORSA
The Airspeed AS.51 Horsa
Was
a British World War II
Troop-carrying
glider
Used
for air assault by British
And
allied armed forces
Like
other British gliders
Of
the Second World War,
Gliders
were named
After
military figures
Whose
name began with H,
So
it was named after Horsa,
The
legendary 5th century
Jutish
Conqueror of southern Britain.
But
on D-Day 1944
The
Horsa showed
It
was not a conqueror
But
a liberator of Europe
ALL-TIME CLASSIC MOVIE FAVOURITES – D-DAY THE SIXTH OF JUNE (1956)
D-Day
the Sixth of June, Directed by Henry Koster, tells the tale of a love triangle
involving a British Officer, Lt Colonel John Wynter (Richard Todd), American
Captain Brad Parker (Robert Taylor) and Red Cross Nurse Valerie Russell (Dana
Wynter).
The
story unfolds aboard an allied transport on the eve of D-Day shown in
flashback, as the two officers reminisce about their individual relationships with
the beauteous English Rose.
But
who will the nurse choose? A married American Staff Officer or the gung ho
British Lt Colonel.
THE ENGLISH ELECTRIC LIGHTNING
The English Electric Lightning
Was
a supersonic jet fighter
From
the days of the Cold War
Noted
for its great speed
The
only all-British Mach 2 fighter
And
the first in the world
Capable
of Supercruise
Renowned
for its interceptor capabilities
The
Lightning was the best of the best
Sunday, 25 July 2021
THE WACO HADRIAN
The Waco CG-4A
Was
the most widely used
Troop/cargo
military glider
Of
World War II
Named
the Hadrian
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