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    Patton leads German troops against USSR?

    Exactly. And I can't speak for the mood in the US, but in Britain, there was actually some benign feeling for the Soviets and what they'd endured, and the socialist cause had garnered a swell of support in the Labour Party which swept the election against Churchill's conservative party - so any...
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    Patton leads German troops against USSR?

    Ah, but the US had no more nuclear fission material at the end of the war - the two bombs used on Japan used all that they had. So following up with a double-whammy again wasn't a timely option - time was needed to garner more. And I can't believe that there was any appetite amongst the public...
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    Patton leads German troops against USSR?

    The same could be said of the British (and I'm writing as one) - even the Romans knew never to give the Britons a monthly ration of booze in one go as they'd neck the lot and start fighting amongst themselves. There's something about it. Today it's called "binge-drinking" and 70% of intake in...
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    Patton leads German troops against USSR?

    I read once that, had D-Day failed in June 1944, then the US and British/Commonwealth forces would have remained in Britain regrouping and couldn't have launched another attempt on invading the continent until mid-1946 - but by then, the Soviet steamroller would have marched past Berlin, taken...
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    Patch placement on MA-1 jackets?

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    Aero Leather Clothing trial update

    You also have Sharia Law courts. I didn't know until I saw it in the press that a guy in Scotland was caught speeding by the police and fined - and he took it to a Sharia Law court and explained that he had 4 wives and it was necessary to speed in order to see them all. He got off.
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    Patch placement on MA-1 jackets?

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    Just when you think you'd heard the worst of it ...

    A small world indeed! Yes I did - I was born in Chester in 1967 and we moved to Sheffield (where my parents were from) when I was 5 … so as well as Toronto, I call it home. I was back there last year for the first time in 3 years (and was there for the start of the Tour de France and I felt so...
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    Just when you think you'd heard the worst of it ...

    Such good points made since I left the office yesterday … And back in the day and growing up in Sheffield and living there until I was 29, for the longest time, there was evidence of the blitz everywhere if you cared to look for it - the massive stone patch on the Wicker Arches bridge where an...
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    Just when you think you'd heard the worst of it ...

    I checked that too - and me neither! :(
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    Just when you think you'd heard the worst of it ...

    Good thoughts - yes, it could be directed at the Soviets. "The Fall of Berlin, 1945" by Anthony Beevor was a captivating read - but it's just page-after-page of appalling atrocities. I Had no idea of the industrial scale of rape and murder that was meted out to the civilian population...
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    Just when you think you'd heard the worst of it ...

    It seems the German public feels entitled to let themselves off their own hook - if this article is to be believed (a story originally in The Times) from today's press...
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    Patch placement on MA-1 jackets?

    As I always say, Nick - if everyone in the world built models, there wouldn't be half the trouble there is !!
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    Patch placement on MA-1 jackets?

    I find it interesting how we all find out about the similar things we're so interested in… For instance, this would be how I'd learn about Showtime 100, through a good kit review of the aircraft on a model building forum. And in the replies, someone pipes up about Cunningham's misdeeds. Oh...
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    Patch placement on MA-1 jackets?

    Yep, all great points, Big J (and you've given me someone new to look up! Never heard of this Otto fella either!). It's a mixed up, messed up, shook up world alright. But at least there are places like this where these heroic people can be brought to light and considered amid intelligent...
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    Patch placement on MA-1 jackets?

    Well, they do say we should never meet our heroes … But in defence, I also think that it takes a certain kind of person to do what Randy Cunningham - and others like him - all did and not everyone can be a nice guy to boot. It takes all sorts. I can't speak to Randy Cunningham as this is the...
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    Patch placement on MA-1 jackets?

    Who's the artist who did that F-4, Big J?
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    Patch placement on MA-1 jackets?

    Beautiful! A good choice. Very dynamic and nicely balanced. The lines on a Phantom make it one of the most beautiful aircraft ever, IMO. Check your PM's, Big J. Sent you something interesting regarding Japan PM's visit to US.
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    Patch placement on MA-1 jackets?

    I couldn't agree more. And I can't imagine being trained to fly these beautiful jet bombers and being so proud of what I do and feel the value in my service - and then, for political expediency, to be ordered to fly down the same flight corridor with NO deviations and at the same low-level...
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    Real McCoy's are closing down..?

    My 2 cents: I don't care how nice a product may be - mentioning no names at all, I just don't like to buy anything from any country who has my neck of the woods targeted with nuclear weapons and engages my country in cyber warfare and floods us with spies who don't have our best interests at...

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