Glaring Mistakes

Painful

 

Took me a minute to spot the mistakes. Can't unseen them now. Is this from some fantasy site?

v/r Jeff

 

I hate to admit it but I browse Facebook. I follow a couple of Battleship groups so Facebook sends me a lot of what they think are warship pictures. I can't think of any capital ship that had three superfiring turrets so I don't know what AI or Facebook was thinking

 

Reading these posts earlier today…

…led me to this blooper:

 

When they filmed "No Bananas" we had real rifles.
And no life jackets!
Filmed just off Brightlingsea.
The beach scenes were at Camber Sands, near Rye.

 

Health and Safety would be apoplectic.

This series, presumably:

No Bananas (TV Mini Series 1996– ) ⭐ 7.9 | Drama

I can’t believe I’ve never seen, or even heard of this, unless I’ve just plain forgotten. I shall have to rectify that.

The wonderful Alison Steadman and lovely Stephanie Beacham in it too.

 

Dave 55,

Post 661 has a battleship photo and the notable feature is three turrets at the front and you commented in Post 663:

There was HMS Nelson, a RN battleship that did (as below diagram). It is not the ship in the "enhanced" photo. If you click on the diagram you can scroll through x8 photos. From: HMS Nelson (28) - Wikipedia



There was a "sister" ship, HMS Rodney. See: HMS Rodney (29) - Wikipedia

 

Did not expect to read this in a book published in 2024:

“One major drawback with the new Shermans and the DD variant, however, is described by Robert B. Jarvis in Chariots of the Lake: The Duplex Drive versions of the Sherman M-4 A4 saw the British units supplied with the Sherman V with its Chrysler Gasoline 370Hp Engine, which was much more prone to catching fire when hit and ‘brewing up’, than was the Sherman III with its General Motors diesel engine. Hence the British tanks being dubbed by the Germans, ‘Tommy Cookers’.”

May, Andrew. DD Sherman Tank Warriors: The 13th/18th Royal Hussars through Dunkirk, D-Day and the Liberation of Europe (p. 24). Kindle.

Unless I have overlooked other research, the statement about outcomes from use of different engines and fuel does not seem to square with findings from a document posted by a moderator (dbf).

 

According to The Adventures of Werner Holt, the Soviets had AKs in WW II. Check out the desanti:

 

This is a GDR movie from 1965.
The Wehrmacht actors are quite realistically equipped.
The “Soviet troops” were real soldiers (and tanks) borrowed from the NVA, hence the MPi KM.
The same applies to the German tank destroyers, which are actually Soviet-built SU-76s.

 

The Narrow Road to the Deep North tv series features Australian prisoners of war captured in 1942 wearing metal ID discs. This would not have been possible as they were only gradually introduced to replace fibre issues from late 1943:
Understanding Australian Identity Discs Part 3 : Second World War, Army | Australian War Memorial

 

Described as:
British Liberator bomber shot down near Boulogne on 12 June 1940

The author is clearly more familiar with S-boats
Die Schnellboot-Seite - S-Boote - Kriegsmarine - Westfeldzug 1940

 

Yep, clearly a Me-110 Zestroyer. The radial DB engine is a dead giveaway.

I went to that Schnellboot link and it took me a while to figure out why the "link" page had "left" when translated into English.

 

It's a member of the Potez 63 family (Potez 631 fighter, Potez 637 or even possibly Potez 63-11, both reconnaissance aircraft), probably destroyed on the ground and not shot down as captioned.

 

Undoubtedly a Potez, the V-shaped tail gives it away (Incidentally, the Me 110 had an inline engine)
and almost certainly destroyed on the ground: the left engine protrudes into the sky because the landing gear is extended

 

Wobbler, No Bananas is on youtube

 

I wish I bought one when they were surplused.

Couldn't sleep and watched Armor Command. It's about a 94th Inf Div's armored infantry regiment's I/R platoon. No shortage of mistakes (uniforms very clean, no beards or Jim & Willie look (think Bill Mauldin cartoons), improper handling of civilians, no airbursts) but like the later Battle of the Bulge movie that had M-47 Pattons. This had 90 mm armed M-48 Pattons cleverly disguised to look German by painting a Cross on the hull & turret. The "Germans" panzergrenadiers were armed with M-1 Garands. The Americans naturally were armed with Garands and their armor was M-48 Pattons too. Sidenote: Tina Louise is pretty (Ginger in Gillighan's Island) and Burt Reynolds with a headful of hair was also in the flick.

Should also check out that advanced reticle on the German scope that is shown near the beginning of the flick.

Rated 0/5 out of put me to sleep movie.

 

In the 1960s television show, Combat! Lt. Hadley says he's with the 361st Infantry Regiment. The 361st was a component of the 91st ID, which fought exclusively in Italy. They weren't in France as depicted in other episodes.

 

Fun fact:
The Greek colonel who appeared in this episode emigrated to the United States after the war, changed his name to Theo Kojak, and pursued a career as a police officer.

 

"Who loves ya baby"

"Saperstein!!!!!!!"

Kind regards, lollipop lollipop oooh lolli lollipop. Ear worm moment for the day, always,

Jim.