It Wasn't The Yanks That Won The War...

• Terry Nunn

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  12 September 2012     10:34191004
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  ........or Dad's Army for that matter.
  
  Here's a picture from a slim volume that I found in my Christmas stocking last year. The book is "Railways In Wartime" by Tim Bryan. The picture is from WW1 and shows boy scouts guarding a railway bridge. Did they expect the Germans to come by train I wonder?
  
  

  

  
  
  Terry
  Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
• Guest 710

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  12 September 2012     11:01191009
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  Ah, the joy of the railways of yesteryear, as they crept along to the tune of;dib-dib-dib-dob-dob-dob-dib-dib...
  Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
• howard mcsweeney1

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  12 September 2012     11:18191011
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  terry's comment about the germans coming by train reminds me of the opening lines from spike milligans first book about hitler.
  
  it was along the lines of i was given a rifle, train ticket from victoria and a signed photograph of adolf hitler, i searched the train but couldn't find him anywhere.
• Guest 649

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  12 September 2012     12:28191022
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  They would not have come by British Railway if they did they would not have got here yet.
• Terry Nunn

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  12 September 2012     13:26191032
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  Since I posted that I've had that tune in my head. As a schoolboy we used to sing "It wasn't the Yanks etc" on the bus on some school trip, or horror of horrors on the way to swimming lessons at the freezing cold Duke Of Yorks.
  
  The bus was Dave Reynold's Bedford OB, always in a filthy state, we used to bang the seats to see how much dust would come flying out. It would make Eastonways look pristine. Mind you, Carole Peters is usually clean!
  
  
  
  Terry
  Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
• Guest 641

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  12 September 2012     18:30191104
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  Just imagine the conversation the intrepid boy scouts from the 88th Dover troop would have had with the German troops after they had boarded a train at Dover Marine from all those years ago.
  
  'I say you dastardly Bosch chappies, you cannot pass from this point hence as my King has not given clearance for Kaiser Wilhelm's troops to set foot on our England fair and pleasant land, so be off with you before I trounce you with my trusty staff not to mention what I would do to you with my toggle'
  
  Imagine the badge he would get
• howard mcsweeney1

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  12 September 2012     18:31191106
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  they don't like it up 'em barry.
• Guest 641

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  12 September 2012     18:39191110
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  Those Fuzzy Wuzzies get everywhere, Don't Panic!, Don't Panic!, Don't tell 'em your name, Pike! , Aye, we're Doomed I say, Doomed
• Paul Watkins

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  12 September 2012     19:05191121
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  If you read the Anthony Beevor books on the Second World War, it was the former USSR that won because the Yanks gave it away.
  
  Watty