Tuesday, March 12, 2013

History Shows Again & Again ...

Collection of old, some historical photos. Don't miss the one of Fascist HQ in 1934. This is our favorite, an SAS raiding party, which, w/ the Long Range Desert Group, was the inspiration for the American telebision program The Rat Patrol. Of course the rats were Kiwis, Limeys & fucking Rhodesians (Remember Rhodesia?) not Yanks, but that didn't stop the producers.
SAS detachment 19 January 1943
Also worth noting: The jeeps in the tee vee show never carried that many jerry cans.

2 comments:

  1. And two pintle-mounted .303 Lewis guns are far more likely than one great big-ass Ma Deuce. Although trying to keep those snail drum magazines working in the sand must have been an exercise in existential futility...

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  2. Got Nothing But a Juvenile Sense of Humor Editor:
    Heh heh, you typed "pintle."

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