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Anyone remember this film ?

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awemawson:
There used to be a superb military surplus shop in Pudsey - I remember my Father buying a play tent there for me (aged 5) made out of parachute silk - so that must have been 1955  :bugeye:

hermetic:
I dont believe it!!! I had one of those as well, I will ask my mum what it was called!! My dad loved that shop too!

awemawson:
My Father had an office in Bradford and we lived in Leeds so he went past every day in the car (series 1 1949 Tickford SWB Landrover now worth a fortune! *). On those rare times when we went with him - probably school holidays I suppose - he didn't stand a chance - we HAD to stop. I can remember getting first world war candle lanterns with a slit window, loads of optics - prisms, lenses etc - and a load of aluminium aircraft solenoid valves that we sawed up to recover the solenoids to operate the points on our Hornby Double O train layout. It was an absolute Aladdin's Cave. The war wasn't that long over and presumably the government was unloading as much as possible to pay off the lend-lease debt. I have a feeling that my older brother is still using those solenoids as he has the (now much extended) layout !

(* Identical to the picture but ours was NNW514 - sold for £50 by my brother back in the 1960's  :bang: )

Fergus OMore:
I've just turned 89 years and can go back in time when the lads came back from Dunkirk and the village nurse was cutting the blood blisters that matted their grey army socks.
I remember in the days prior to DDay the Inns of Court regiment, then a reconnaissance lot training to come off landing craft and the final news that  this lightly armoured crowd had been literally wiped out as the faced a Panzer unit!
I recall KGV and HMS Victorious being built  and one was camouflaged as a merchant ship as it lay being fitted out before it sailed secretly to pound Bismarck into submission.

I recall- at 7 years HMS Manchester lining its guns off the Tyne long before it was attacked by Swordfish who mistook it for Bismarck.

I recall being machine gunned prior to going out with my ex sapper father to tackle incendiaries and later to inspect a dud bomb whivh wasn't.

Goldstar31 is Royal Air Force 31 Squadron( the Goldstars) and I recall seeing John Mills in the film Morning Departure and with a couple of days, flying in Devon C1 VP-981 the AOC in C's to try to help submarine HMS Truculent that was rammed and sunk off Sheerness.

No fiction like 'The Machine Gunners' which seemingly was written by  a classmate of mine.

Any one reall the Stars look Down- a film of mining. I went home to find my father in the family tin bath and my mother tenderly removing the grease and filth from his back as he had slipped and fallen on an endless rope in the coal mine.

Forgive me- but I might have come a long since- but mine is sadly real

mcostello:
Wow, real History. Chat on if allowed by this Board.

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