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10-01-2007, 02:44 PM
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| aka Dickcheese   Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Washington State
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| Toodle pip. [Mental note to look that one up]
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10-01-2007, 03:32 PM
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| Older Than Dirt  Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Virginia Beach, Virginia
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| Matt308: I think that's a bit of British... like toodle-ooo and cherrio pip-pip ! Talley Ho..... And all that sort of rot ! Sounds Cockney to me !! BTW did you see where "Miss Moneypenny" (of James Bond) died ? Charles
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10-01-2007, 04:12 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: York, England
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| I really do give up with you colonials……..no culture, do you see? Chin chin!  |
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10-01-2007, 04:16 PM
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10-01-2007, 04:24 PM
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 See post #33!G'night guys - thanks for the Banter! Last edited by Downwind.Maddl-Land; 10-01-2007 at 04:48 PM. | |
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10-02-2007, 03:22 PM
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| aka Dickcheese Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Washington State
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| I get it. Kinda like the US counterpart to "Yo. Yo. Yo. Fo' shizzle, my nizzle." No wonder I didn't get it. It's not the King's English.
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10-03-2007, 01:56 PM
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 (Did you guys know that RAF Officers' (and probably the 2 other Services for that matter) uniform buttons and Service Dress hats have a "King's" or "Queen's" crown emblazoned on them? The King's Crown is domed shaped, while the Queen's Crown is more heart shaped. On the change of Monarch, all one's uniform has to be modified.) Never mind all that - back to the thread. Was the Dam's Mission the most daring raid? No one has yet risen to cross examine.......... Last edited by Downwind.Maddl-Land; 10-03-2007 at 03:34 PM. Reason: syntax | ||
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10-03-2007, 02:19 PM
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| Older Than Dirt Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Virginia Beach, Virginia
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| Downwind..... you are the cat's pajamas ! You take all this "Brit" ribbing good-naturedly...... and, to quote a Brit.... "You give it 'em back !" I love it...... I think the jury's still out on the Dam mission..... Charles
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10-03-2007, 03:35 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: York, England
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| Nah! Just trying the avoid the enema.......   |
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10-03-2007, 05:28 PM
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| "World Traveller"  Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Royal Deeside/St Andrews, Scotland, UK
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  | I would say the Dam's Raid is up there among the most daring of the all. A couple of others to consider would be the Amien's Prison Raid, the Copenhagen Gestapo Raid, the raids on the Norsk Hydro Plant in Norway and of course all the others that have been mentioned as well.
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10-13-2007, 10:33 AM
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| A-Hem.....It’s been 2 weeks since I proposed the Dams Raid; no cross examination or counter responses thus far…… Would it be too remiss of me to claim ‘Case proven’?  |
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10-14-2007, 04:51 AM
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| HOW ABOUT WHEN in 1940 blitz a handfull of german engineers landed in gliders on top of a huge dutch fort and shut it down with satchel charges and shmeisers ...or the mosquito raid on the gestapo prison in france ..or task force baum ,pattons ill conceived plan to spring his son in law ...jap parras take dutch indies airfield with pistoles and grenades ,,, preins scapa flow uboat raid was pretty awsome , doolittles b25s off of hornet ..the eboat raid right before d day .. chenaults tigers raid of siamese jap airshow , first raid ploesti |
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10-14-2007, 05:36 AM
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| Dear majorwoody10. I don't deny any of 'em - at all! Prien's Foray into Scapa, in particular, must have taken gonads of ferric qualities plus more than a little planning and cunning; and I have a particularly soft spot for Doolittle’s soireé to Downtown Tokyo too. However, the thrust of the thread was to debate ‘Which was the most……’ So where are protagonist's arguments (with a small 'a') for the deeds you list? I happen to reason that the Dams raid has the edge and qualifies as the most daring. |
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10-25-2007, 02:30 AM
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| It looks like this could use a poll. For me it has to be PH. It was daring on a unpresidented scale not seen before and never will be again.
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10-25-2007, 04:14 AM
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 | Operation Chariot! The raid on Pearl Harbour was just a larger scale version of Taranto.
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