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They were only caught because they took the Matilda back to exchange it for something with a gun.
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Soeren wrote:
jarndice wrote:The trouble with colourised photographs is that without eyewitness corroboration you cannot trust them and that applies with bells on when it comes to Turret Numbers and unit/division signing.
Mixing a known coloured item "The German Reich Flag" with other signs and emblems merely confuses the issue.......
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That is for sure. :thumbup: We all know that pink with purple and scarlet were indeed the correct German colors :D.
Pink was actually used as a piping color on some uniforms.
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Yep, and Hugo Boss designed the SS uniforms...
And what did the Allies get, green


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midlife306 wrote:Yep, and Hugo Boss designed the SS uniforms...
And what did the Allies get, greenImage


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Don't forget the British sand yellow uniforms in North Africa!
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Spoilt for choice


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This strikes me as the most quintessentially British moment of all time. My wife, who is English, has impressed upon me before that the correct response to any crisis is to put the kettle on.
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Yep had many a deep discussion whilst having a cuppa 8| , especially agreeing the story and what to blame and more important who's telling the boss :haha: .
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Anyone who has been a member of a "Recon" team knows that you spend a lot of your time crawling through mud and finally laying up in an insect infested sinkhole desperately searching for your target usually to no avail, :lolno:
And that is what a "Hexamine" burner and a tea bag were invented for, PARADISE !!! :clap:
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Its great to see those colours
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