These are for sale on a well known auction site as reproduction WW2 US Flag patches. Good luck with that.
Call me Drew, but I always look for the correct flag in period movies. Usually they fail miserably. Then, there is the whole issue of the tags...
I’m exactly the same, Jeff, and don’t get me started on how often they show the Union Flag flying upside down
I agree, it's one of my pet hates. I've been watching the Tokyo Olympics and it's amazing how many times the Union flag is carried upside down, grrr
Well, not exactly a "mistake", but...... spanish license-built Bf 109 clones HA 1112 "Bouchon" rebuilt as P-51B Mustang for the 1970´s Movie "Patton" Also known as "Messerstang" although "Frankenstein" would also fit perfectly... THE ‘MESSERSTANGS’ HEAD FOR SPAIN
aircraft recognition disaster during preparations for "Eagles over London" painting Spits as Schmitts and Schmitts as Spits
I am really completely baffled: Union Jack upside down? So what?? There you know the Union Jack practically all your life, until the last posts made me realize that the flag is not completely symmetrical at all! At least I now have a very precise idea of what Holmes meant when he said: "As ever, Watson, you see but do not observe."
And from the Imperial War Museum site. The Union Flag carried at the surrender of Singapore. I've given up trying to explain to them that it's upside down. Flag, National, British, Union flag Tim
“So what”? How very dare you sirrah, put ‘em up, put ‘em up To be fair, it is not something you’d probably spot easily unless you were very familiar with it. Of course, many flags are a lot easier to notice when they’re the wrong way up. What’s particularly galling is when, for example, the BBC get it wrong in one of their dramas.
The fiends. What remains with me vividly from film of the surrender, by the way, is Major Wild throwing the white flag down in what I’ve always presumed, perhaps mistakenly, to be disgust at giving up.
I learned about this several years ago via this group too. What do the offset arms signify? They aren't offset in the standalone cross. Saint Patrick's Saltire - Wikipedia
Well you got me there, Dave, as I confess with great shame to never having even wondered that! From the quick checks I’ve just made it would appear to be due to making sure the Cross of St Andrew has precedence, Scotland being the more senior at the time of the Act of Union (1800/1801). Union Jack: The Story Behind The Flag The Union Flag or Union Jack - UK flag
That well know US fire-arm , the Lee Enfield No4 . rifle-helmet-memorial-23649076.jpg (955×1300) (dreamstime.com) rifle-helmet-memorial-23649077.jpg (599×900) (dreamstime.com)
This error fortunately does not matter to the content of the book it is in... Those are clearly Rams (look at the gun mantlets) and therefore not firing at any actual enemies. (For that matter, I don't recognize the rectangular marking on the turrets. Something for an exercise?)
Bit of a slip by Osprey. The volume should either have been entitled 'German Armour in Normandy 1944' or the cover picture of a 7,5cm Pak 40 GW 39H(f) and a 10,5cm le FH18 aux GW 39H(f) changed to one showing tanks. Furthermore, the 10,5cm was self-propelled artillery not ‘Panzer, Sturmgeschuetz and Panzerjaeger’.
