Battle of Britain Warriors

This Bf 109 came down in Kent during the Battle of Britain when its engine failed. It now tours the Home Counties raising money for Service Charities.

The original crash site.

Wizard Prang chaps.

Note the Messer-killer, back left.

Ripping Yarns

As a child of the 50s, I have a nostalgic fondness for Ripping Yarn type stories such as filled my schoolboy comics.

The very nice chaps at Warm Acre sent me these for free by way of an apology after a minor posting error, which was jolly decent of them.

Meet the Twingo twins, feared heroines of the SOE, who set the continent ablaze, to use Churchill's words - which, in general, are better than mine.

Mud Movers

It's an odd thing to note but the best use of an airforce outside of airspace defence is to assist the army with close support, so why do all airforces fight tooth and nail to do anything but? You might think that the air marshals had religious convictions on the subject such is the venomous level of their irrationality.

For example, the A10 here was one of the most valuable weapons in the USAF's armoury, which is why they scrapped it to make room for high tech, high performance monstrosities like the F22, or white elephants like the stealth planes.


The lower pic is of a Thunderbolt, the best all-American fighter of WWII. Fast, robust, well armed, upgradable, it was able to give a good account of itself as a fighter at all altitudes and had a pretty good range. But it was most useful as a mud mover, carrying out the traditional role of cavalry. Along with the Typhoon, it was a truly lethal weapon of war.

Die Mister Bond

Dr Maybe, James Bond baddy, shows off his giant triffid.

From Crooked Dice - 7TV.

I spent yesterday in a Lambshead Family Picnic at the Imperial War Museum at Duxford, Cambridgeshire and took lots of pics, the best of which I shall feed into the blog in irregular posts as I sort them out.

Above is the Battle of Britain Hurricane, Fighter Command's primary fighter in 1940. The first modern monoplane design for the RAF, it was very similar to Hawker's biplanes. It had a decent performance, inferior to the Bf 109E in all but firepower, strength and agility, but not much inferior. This is the plane that mainly won the Battle of Britain. Germany invade Russia with fewer planes than it had for the Battle of France. The Hurricane was largely responsible.

Comet, the last British cruiser tank. This is the weapon that the army could and should have had in Normandy instead of the Cromwell and Sherman deathtraps. Equipped with a gun similar to and only slightly inferior to the superb 17pdr crammed into the Firefly.

Patton and Montogerery both claimed that a Sherman 75 was a perfectly adequate tank and killed the urgency for replacements, with disastrous consequences.

Daily Mail for all your Medical Advice

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There is a great site that monitors the Daily Wail Cancer reportage called Kill or Cure.

Here is a quick list of things that will strike you dead with cancer according to Lunchtime O'Booze and Glenda Slagg, fearless mail correspondents.

Alcohol, Asperin, Asbestos, Babies, Baby Bottles, Baby Food, Bacon, Barbecues, Beef, Being Born Black, Being Born Male, Being Born Southern (English), Benzene, Biscuits, Bisphenol, Black Cohosh,Bras, Bread, Breastfeeding, Breast Implants, Broken Hearts, Bubble Bath, Burgers, Caffeine, Calcium, Canned Food, Carbohydrates, Cars, Cayenne Pepper, Cereal, Cheese, Chicken, Children, Childlessness, Chilli, Chinese Medicine, Chips, Chlamydia, Chlorine, Cholesterol, Cities, Cleaning, Climate Change, Clomiphene, Cod Liver Oil, Coffee, Computers, Constipation, Contraceptives, Cooking, Cordless Phones, Cosmetics, Counterfeit Medicines, Crayons, Crispbread, Crisps, Cured Meat, Curry....

OK, I'm only up to C and I'm losing the will to live.


We are all doomed I tell you, doomed.

Rebel Girl

Rebel girl with machine pistol. She could be anything from Free French to one of Blake's people.