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Bren / Universal Carriers waiting to be scrapped
Lord Oik of Runcorn (You may refer to me as Milord Oik)

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fsn



Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) women working on a Churchill tank at a Royal Army Ordnance Corps depot, 10 October 1942.


Bit obviously staged.
Lord Oik of Runcorn (You may refer to me as Milord Oik)

Oik of the Year 2013, 2014; Prize for originality and 'having a go, bless him', 2015
3 votes in the 2016 Painting Competition!; 2017-2019 The Wilderness years
Oik of the Year 2020; 7 votes in the 2021 Painting Competition
11 votes in the 2022 Painting Competition (Double figures!)
2023 - the year of Gerald:
2024 Painting Competition - Runner-Up!

Steve J

I love the fake wooden bomb, but sad at the sight of all those Universal Carriers waiting to be scrapped.

Raider4

Aye, very sad. And I've read stories of British carriers on their way home from the Pacific dumping all of their lend-lease US aircraft (e.g. Corsairs) over the side, because the Americans didn't want them back and we weren't allowed to do anything else with them (sell on or scrap).

howayman

Love the dummy bomb on the dummy airfield.
To think they risked their lives just for the joke brilliant.  :D

fsn



An Ottoman supply train still resting where it was ambushed by Lawrence of Arabia 104 years ago on the Hejaz railway

Lord Oik of Runcorn (You may refer to me as Milord Oik)

Oik of the Year 2013, 2014; Prize for originality and 'having a go, bless him', 2015
3 votes in the 2016 Painting Competition!; 2017-2019 The Wilderness years
Oik of the Year 2020; 7 votes in the 2021 Painting Competition
11 votes in the 2022 Painting Competition (Double figures!)
2023 - the year of Gerald:
2024 Painting Competition - Runner-Up!

paulr

Interesting they ambushed it so close to what I assume is a station :-\
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Orcs

Quote from: fsn on 23 July 2021, 03:29:45 PM


Bren / Universal Carriers waiting to be scrapped

They would be worth a fortune if someone had kept a few back.
The cynics are right nine times out of ten. -Mencken, H. L.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Westmarcher

Quote from: fsn on 23 July 2021, 03:29:45 PM


Bren / Universal Carriers waiting to be scrapped

When I've played WW2 board games and you can stack various units on top of each other on the same hex, somehow, this is not what I had in mind.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

pierre the shy

Quote from: fsn on 23 July 2021, 03:29:45 PM


Bren / Universal Carriers waiting to be scrapped

A carrier "carpark"?  OK whose being playing Flames of War???  ;)
Though much is taken, much abides; and though
we are not now that strength which in old days
moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are.

paulr

Typical Germans, always overreacting :-<
No need for a sign saying
Caution !
Risk of death
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Lord Kermit of Birkenhead

Almost as good as the Panther hit by several 60 lb rockets on it's back  sign says - "Remove engine before starting"
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Techno II

I like the 'Getty images' stenciled on the bottom one.....That's been done very neatly.  :D

Cheers - Phil. ;)

fsn

Lord Oik of Runcorn (You may refer to me as Milord Oik)

Oik of the Year 2013, 2014; Prize for originality and 'having a go, bless him', 2015
3 votes in the 2016 Painting Competition!; 2017-2019 The Wilderness years
Oik of the Year 2020; 7 votes in the 2021 Painting Competition
11 votes in the 2022 Painting Competition (Double figures!)
2023 - the year of Gerald:
2024 Painting Competition - Runner-Up!

Lord Kermit of Birkenhead

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