Thanks Tom, I have a very nice girlfriend who also helps me out with typing the War Diaries on the site,
I have the same once and awhile with the questbook Rob, they are working on it, but when clicking on another topic, and then back, is shows up again.
I want to add a new topic on the site regarding badges, I want to include shouldertitles/regiment/formation signs/capbadges so if any one can help me out with any it would be most welcome, is has to be unit IDs that fought in the netherlands
since two weeks its possible to put You tube fragments on my site, so have posted a nice one about 25 pounders/ MK 25 pdr/artillery sup
since two weeks its possible to put You tube fragments on my site, so have posted a nice one about 25 pounders/ MK Nieuwe pagina Like it!! How accurate is A Bridge Too Far? Always liked watching it and wondered if it was true to life?
only accurate at some points, I know that John Waddy and John Frost were present for advise but most of the time they were ignored, most realistic is still the movie Theirs is the glory"
since two weeks its possible to put You tube fragments on my site, so have posted a nice one about 25 pounders/ MK 25 pdr/artillery sup Nice addition to your site, Philip. Like it!! How accurate is A Bridge Too Far? Always liked watching it and wondered if it was true to life? No mention i'am afraid of XXX Corps, 5AGRA support with the 7th Medium Regt and particualy the action of the 64th Medium Regt's shelling for the Airborne. Rob
Only to make money Rob, there should be made a new one with more accurate facts, even that will make enough money, with the special effects they have today
That 64th Medium Regiment almost killed my father. He was in the school on the Annastraat. They hit the postoffice next to the school wich went into flames and i believe the school aswell but surely Philip knows the facts better then me, it's just what i was told. Ron..
Ron Thank God your Father was ok! I'am making no excuses for the Regt, but can't realy understand what they were doing in school at this time. The Regt were firing completely 'Blind' for some time and trying not to hit own troops, untill Loder-Symonds Op Officers became their 'Eyes'. Rob
Which day was this Ron From what i understood it was the last day, they had to leave and ended up at the "Bakkerstraat" in Oosterbeek wich was not his home and after that they evacuated to Harskamp. They were in the school because they had to leave their house on the "Van Deventerweg" on orders of the Germans when it became German Occupied territory. Ron
Ron Thank God your Father was ok! I'am making no excuses for the Regt, but can't realy understand what they were doing in school at this time. The Regt were firing completely 'Blind' for some time and trying not to hit own troops, untill Loder-Symonds Op Officers became their 'Eyes'. Rob They were probably in the school because it had a descent cellar, more people from the village were in there. Would they have known on forehand that later it became the border of the perimeter they probably would have made another choice. Ron
I think I have 99.9% of the artillery graves in Netherlands, still have to go for the ones in Belgium and Germany and England who were killed or wounded in the Netherlands. But could always have missed out some, so if you noticed this please let me know. Also have a list on my site with graves whom I am not able to identify to a certain unit, so any help with this would also be welcome.
I sent you information by PM and e-mail 8 months ago about men killed in Holland and buried in Belgium. You never used it.
Re the Glossary, 'Zeroing' may have applied to anti-tank guns (not sure about AA) it does not apply to field artillery. The field arty equivalents were 'sight tests' that checked the alignment of the sights with the axis of the bore by aiming the latter at a distant object and then adjusting the sights if necessary (could also be done with ATk and AA guns) and calibration which derived an updated muzzle velocity, which was then set on the sight range scale. 'Murder', the definition doesn't make sense, a concentration on a single point, was Mike, Uncle, etc.