I was browsing the Internet and came across this amusing link, and model idea of course. It combines two things very close to my heart.
http://zythophile.co.uk/2014/06/06/y...s-in-normandy/
Amazing what you find.
To the bar! Just done get your pint from the wrong pump!
I was browsing the Internet and came across this amusing link, and model idea of course. It combines two things very close to my heart.
http://zythophile.co.uk/2014/06/06/y...s-in-normandy/
Amazing what you find.
"What are you doing, there's a war going on".
"Don't you worry none, it will still be there. Right now the beer has just landed"!
Great story. Some things will never change. People have priorities!
An amazing read thank you for posting
lol.... Carrying beer instead of explosives.... Genius idea!!! Nice read, thanks for showing us the link. But I wonder if they ever tried to drop beer in the german soldiers...
Read about this before, but this article is more expansive than what I had seen. Certainly shows the lengths troops will go to get their beer!
Karl
It is impossible for a man to begin to learn what he thinks he knows. -- Epictetus
Reminds me of Adrian Warburton's escapade on an observation flight from Malta.
He claimed he was forced out to sea by enemy aircraft and had to put down in Greece for refueling.
On return his aircraft was full of bottles of Greek wine.
Rob.
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
It all depends on what kind of fuel one needs.
Marvellous!
Thanks for posting!
Could have been a happier war if every one did that
Maybe that should be attempted. Send lots of beer across the lines instead of bombs and bullets! Hmmmm, maybe an idea for a scenario.
What a splendid article - it would be cool to convert the Ares Spit IX with invasion stripes to have it carrying a couple of kegs...
Thanks for posting the link, Nigel!
All the best,
Matt
Reminds me of a memoir I read years ago by a Churchill tank commander. His outfit "liberated" a distillery early in the Normandy campaign, and filled a tanker truck with Calvados, which besides being good for morale, eased their supply issues for the entire campaign....
He was lucky with that; the Germans had a habit of destroying and/or booby-trapping such placesOriginally Posted by Dom S
Reminds me of a memoir I read years ago by a Churchill tank commander. His outfit "liberated" a distillery early in the Normandy campaign, and filled a tanker truck with Calvados, which besides being good for morale, eased their supply issues for the entire campaign....
Guess they knew where the troops would go first
Karl
It is impossible for a man to begin to learn what he thinks he knows. -- Epictetus
The Aussie Pacific area Ace Clive Caldwell used the same method to get Grog to his Aussie Squadron at Moratai but the HQ wallas took a very dim view!
+1
Nice. I once read a story about guys using the drop tanks to make ice cream.
Ice cream was made and then carried over from the UK by Republic P-47Ds in their drop tanks. The stuff stayed frozen as they flew higher than we did at 15,000 feet and above. I think the article mentions an incident where a bunch of fairly new P-47D pilots dropping ice cream mistook a bunch of British Hawker Typhoon Ibs which were flying low to drop beer for Fw.190s nearby ... Somehow there wasn't a blue on blue - would have been awful if there had been but all traces of the offending cargoes would of course have gone up in flames had anybody been shot down.
And the next day, a comic with this in mind:Reminds me of a memoir I read years ago by a Churchill tank commander. His outfit "liberated" a distillery early in the Normandy campaign, and filled a tanker truck with Calvados, which besides being good for morale, eased their supply issues for the entire campaign....
Karl
It is impossible for a man to begin to learn what he thinks he knows. -- Epictetus
Nice one Karl.
Rob.
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
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