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I recently read a very interesting book written by Malcolm Gladwell called ‘The Bomber Mafia’. It dealt with the strategy of the USAAF during WW2. The two main protagonists involved were Major Generals Haywood Hansell and Curtis LeMay. Hansell’s tactics were to conduct strategic bombing using...

Wooo! Yeah! Get in the hole! USA! USA! Gard bless ‘merica! :shootself

Going back to my previous post about the Yanks and Scotch whisky, the spivs had them by the short and curlies. Nothing like flogging off a bottle with a legit looking label and filled with cold tea. After a while the Americans wised up to the con and insisted on sampling the goods. Not a...

I’ve now watched the first two episodes. I really am trying to be objective but there are a number things that irk me. 1. You’re on a bomber station in World War 2, yet you have Land Girls raking up hay right by the runway, you have children messing about there as well. Um, surely there would...

Despite Steve McQueen doing his best to pole vault the fence on his motorbike (WTF!!) at the border I can assure you that no Americans were hurt in the ‘Great Escape’. My Dad, who was in the real thing, informed me that the Yanks were moved to the North Camp of Stalag Luft 3 and therefore were...

Greyhound, with Tom Hanks and the wonderful Stephen Graham, is also worth a watch. A WW2 film about naval escort of Atlantic convoy.