Heads up: BBC2 22:00 11/3/15
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Bob Viking (your #33) I agree - we must agree to disagree.
Don't blame Rhod. He had to do as he was told by the BBC producer without question (unlike some in the news !). I blame the pusillanimous RAF incumbents at Valley. What were they thinking of?
We all had to work hard for our wings, no problem with that. But, still in living memory, in Bomber Command alone, there must have been roughly 8,000 sets of double wings that ended in the wearer's agony, probably in flame and soaked in blood. Is there no respect any more?
It is sadly true, every fighting Service needs a major war every generation - just to remember what they came into the shop for in the first place. The bottom line is still "Kill or be killed". This is not a game (and never was, and never will be).
The "Plays, Films and TV fiction" argument is a red herring. This was a documentary. Rhod's wings were pure window-dressing, it would have been just as interesting and educative without them.
Danny42C.
Don't blame Rhod. He had to do as he was told by the BBC producer without question (unlike some in the news !). I blame the pusillanimous RAF incumbents at Valley. What were they thinking of?
We all had to work hard for our wings, no problem with that. But, still in living memory, in Bomber Command alone, there must have been roughly 8,000 sets of double wings that ended in the wearer's agony, probably in flame and soaked in blood. Is there no respect any more?
It is sadly true, every fighting Service needs a major war every generation - just to remember what they came into the shop for in the first place. The bottom line is still "Kill or be killed". This is not a game (and never was, and never will be).
The "Plays, Films and TV fiction" argument is a red herring. This was a documentary. Rhod's wings were pure window-dressing, it would have been just as interesting and educative without them.
Danny42C.
Last edited by Danny42C; 14th Mar 2015 at 22:17. Reason: Punctuation.
This was a documentary.
CG
Last edited by charliegolf; 14th Mar 2015 at 21:23. Reason: To change the only thing about my post that a person could possibly disagree with. Oh, and to speel vehicule proper!
charliegolf, this isn't Jet Blast and even Welsh schoolteachers should show some respect to WW2 veterans - your exclamation of 'Bollocks' was as rude as it was inappropriate.
Please edit your post and get one of the kids to give you six of the best - you'd probably enjoy that...
Please edit your post and get one of the kids to give you six of the best - you'd probably enjoy that...
Heads up: BBC2 22:00 11/3/15
Danny.
I have the utmost respect for you and your generation but we don't have to agree about everything.
I'm not saying you're wrong I'm just saying I feel differently about the matter. Maybe it's a generational thing. I personally don't feel it is disrespectful to those who have earned them.
Now if he'd pinned a VC on his chest I'd feel very differently.
I feel like I'm starting to repeat myself now so I shall cease and desist.
BV
I have the utmost respect for you and your generation but we don't have to agree about everything.
I'm not saying you're wrong I'm just saying I feel differently about the matter. Maybe it's a generational thing. I personally don't feel it is disrespectful to those who have earned them.
Now if he'd pinned a VC on his chest I'd feel very differently.
I feel like I'm starting to repeat myself now so I shall cease and desist.
BV
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charliegolf, this isn't Jet Blast and even Welsh schoolteachers should show some respect to WW2 veterans - your exclamation of 'Bollocks' was as rude as it was inappropriate.
Please edit your post and get one of the kids to give you six of the best - you'd probably enjoy that...
Please edit your post and get one of the kids to give you six of the best - you'd probably enjoy that...
I objected to civilian flying instructors being given the same flying badge as regulars, when this was proposed two decades ago, but this was different - Gilbert won't be wearing his "wings" every day.
K8931 was a Blackburn Shark, and as it happens that airframe was the penultimate one of the type to be retired (in July 1944).
