Ah, God love her…
A remarkable woman. What stories she had to tell….
That’s a fake town built on the roof of Boeing plant in Seattle to disguise it from Japanese bombers in WW2
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Great documentary, the Abyss, on the rise and fall of nazis on rte player. Edit: may have mentioned it already. Just finished it this evening anyway.
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Local lads father was involved in planning that escape…forced to march east afterwards, a nawful carry on. He died just a few months ago.
I’d be yarning to the son at swatragh mart now and again…about killing dockens, the futility of life/femcing, how you should never ever take your boots off because your feet would swell up and the frostbite would kill you etc. It always struck me as a bit far-fetched, until he showed me the obituaries in the English broadsheets
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You can still visit the camp. It’s near Wroclaw.
Thanks for the invitation mate. Does Saturday to Wednesday work for you?
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The new doc on Netflix about WW2 from the frontlines is excellent.
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World Wars are old hat at this stage… Done to death.
Can’t. I’m protesting at Polish TV HQ those days.
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It is, some amazing footage I’ve never seen before.
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All cleaned up and colourised. Top top viewing.
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Nice, what do they each represent or locations?
Mine(s) would have sold them on ebay
He died in a concentration camp… He fell out of a watch tower.
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What’s that link for getting behind subscriptions to read articles? I wanted to read this article:
I’d to have been a paratrooper in world war 2. There’s some serious camaraderie on display.
The Bomber Mafia by Malcolm Gladwell is very informative and worth a read/listen if interested in that period of history