Found the image they used, camo pattern matches. Belgian 1A5. The Leopard 1A5 of the Belgian Army in action. | Stocktrek Images
Owen Good detective work but I am also a little disappointed: Simply "Belgium" as location? That leaves you far below your legendary skills....
I don't know if it's classed as a glaring mistake, but I've just seen a book for sale on Ebay, a first edition of 'Enemy Coast Ahead' by Guy Gibson, published in 1947, advertised as 'signed by the author'!
While I'm at it... in "Titanic", Bernard (or, if he's addressing US TV audiences Ber-narrrd) Hill as Captain Edward Smith, Titanic's Master, is portrayed as wearing a George V crested Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Officers' Decoration. An award not instituted until Captain Smith had been at the bottom of the Atlantic for seven years. [He actually had an Edward VII crested Royal Naval Reserve Officers' Decoration]. What's ironic, is that as the ship sails into the sunset, at the stern she sports not a Red Ensign of the British Merchant Fleet, but a Blue Ensign, indicating that her Master is an officer of the Royal Naval Reserve - which is absolutely correct...
Leopoldsburg Barracks ,Limburg Belgium [?] On a different subject the photograph below was titled The Bataan Death March — but that's not really what it shows.( U.S. Marine Corps via AP file) The image was correctly identified Cpl John E. Love who had been haunted by the memory of carrying fallen comrades to a mass grave hollowed out of a Filipino rice field . In 2010 the Associated Press corrected the caption after they were contacted by Love but only after six months of research into the image Love pointed out " That picture is not of the Death March, The Japanese would not have tolerated a bunch of slow marching guys carrying their own dead. They wouldn't have tolerated it just one New York minute." 65 years later, war photo caption corrected Kyle
Shared by Swiper on Twatter. From some marketing wank on the upcoming (Official) DDay/Normandy 80th 'celebrations'. Every. Bloody. Time. Whether the Fish & Chips & other associated toss is a glaring mistake I leave to members to find out.
Could be any Tom, Dick or Harry signature with the prime objective of enhancing its value...in reality fools gold. Gibson's Enemy Coast Ahead was not published until February 1946 and there were two impressions published in 1946,one in May 1946 followed by one in September 1946.In all, there were 10 impressions up to 1951 covering every year, following on from when it was first published by Michael Joseph Ltd in February 1946. Perhaps what the seller does not realise or otherwise is that Gibson had been dead since September 1944.
I will be teaching a class soon about the American WWII novel. To that end, I am reading a biography of Joseph Heller by one Tracy Daugherty. Mr. Daugherty has won numerous literary fellowships and he has published four novels plus essays and stories as well as a 'critically acclaimed biography' of the writer Donald Barthelme. Yet he does not know that the plural of the word aircraft is aircraft.
Should be on left side of picture when displayed with other flags on US soil, but California, so ........
WW1 I know, but I caught a repeat screening of "Rudyard Kipling: A Secret Life" by Odyssey on Sky Arts last night. Interesting enough, but when it came to insightful discussion about "The Gardener," a complex short story about a British woman visiting the grave of her 'son', Lieutenant Michael Turrell, who died at Loos and largely spoken over B-roll images of war graves, as seen from 37:40 at alternative link: Why would she look for him among German graves? She might have a thoughtful visit, but it imparts a sense of any old library footage and detracts from the credibility of the whole.
A Daily Mail article on plans to house asylum seekers at RAF Scampton has the following sentence: 'The officer of the Dambuster's commanding officer, Sir Guy Gibson, is reportedly being stripped bare, along with the airbase's museum.' When did Gibson receive his knighthood, I wonder? Aritlcle: Historians and locals blast 'insane' Home Office bid to use RAF Scampton 'for 1,500 asylum seekers' | Daily Mail Online