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Jonny666

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  1. is that the one that was on sale from the NLBA?? kool purchase tho
  2. the last story i didnt know lol it would have been unlucky if it failed
  3. that is satin finish NATO green, but most landys/bristish mv's come out of the factory that colour then get sprayed/over painted in black camo or sand. if you look on my thread i used NATO satin paint in sand and green.
  4. well thats what i thought, and after seeing some pics of 2 series 3 and a 101 in afghanistan in that colour scheme it sort of sealed the deal and i went and got the paint
  5. possibly but i would have to see if i could fit em in lol
  6. there are replicas out there i got one which looks really good http://www.relics.org.uk thats where i get my replicas from and they take about 3 weeks to get to you and they look really good and if you have cash spare they do metal replicas aswell
  7. ouch beat by a girl, i always knew women had a lead foot! lol
  8. yorkshire has had it pretty bad, lucky i live on a hill! the river near us almost cut barnsley off but its all ok now, just those unlucky people down south
  9. kool what did you study? thanks for the welcomes and the world seems to be getting smaller!
  10. lol thats kool, i wouldnt have done it in my landy lol
  11. now i dont know how true they are but i didnt research em lol! The first German serviceman killed in the war was killed by the Japanese (China, 1937) The first American serviceman killed was killed by the Russians (Finland 1940). The highest ranking American killed was Lt. Gen. Lesley McNair, killed by the US Army Air Corps. The youngest US serviceman was 12 year old Calvin Graham, USN. He was wounded in combat and given a Dishonorable Discharge for lying about his age. (His benefits were later restored by act of Congress). At the time of Pearl Harbor, the top US Navy command was called CINCUS (pronounced “sink us”), the shoulder patch of the US Army’s 45th Infantry division was the swastika, and Hitler’s private train was named “Amerika”. All three were soon changed for PR purposes. More US servicemen died in the Air Corps that the Marine Corps. While completing the required 30 missions, your chance of being killed was 71%. Not that bombers were helpless. A B-17 carried 4 tons of bombs and 1.5 tons of machine gun ammo. The US 8th Air Force shot down 6,098 fighter planes, 1 for every 12,700 shots fired. Germany’s power grid was much more vulnerable than realized. One estimate is that if just 1% of the bombs dropped on German industry had instead been dropped on power plants, German industry would have collapsed. Generally speaking, there was no such thing as an average fighter pilot. You were either an ace or a target. For instance, Japanese ace Hiroyoshi Nishizawa shot down over 80 planes. He died while a passenger on a cargo plane. It was a common practice on fighter planes to load every 5th found with a tracer round to aid in aiming. That was a mistake. The tracers had different ballistics so (at long range) if your tracers were hitting the target, 80% of your rounds were missing. Worse yet, the tracers instantly told your enemy he was under fire and from which direction. Worst of all was the practice of loading a string of tracers at the end of the belt to tell you that you were out of ammo. That was definitely not something you wanted to tell the enemy. Units that stopped using tracers saw their success rate nearly double and their loss rate go down. When allied armies reached the Rhine, the first thing men did was pee in it. This was pretty universal from the lowest private to Winston Churchill (who made a big show of it) and Gen. Patton (who had himself photographed in the act). German Me-264 bombers were capable of bombing New York City but it wasn’t worth the effort. A number of air crewmen died of farts. (ascending to 20,000 ft. in an un-pressurized aircraft causes intestinal gas to expand 300%!) The Russians destroyed over 500 German aircraft by ramming them in midair (they also sometimes cleared minefields by marching over them). “It takes a brave man not to be a hero in the Red Army”. Joseph Stalin The US Army had more ships that the US Navy. The German Air Force had 22 infantry divisions, 2 armor divisions, and 11 paratroop divisions. None of them were capable of airborne operations. The German Army had paratroops who WERE capable of airborne operations. When the US Army landed in North Africa, among the equipment brought ashore were 3 complete Coca Cola bottling plants. Among the first “Germans” captured at Normandy were several Koreans. They had been forced to fight for the Japanese Army until they were captured by the Russians and forced to fight for the Russian Army until they were captured by the Germans and forced to fight for the German Army until they were capture by the US Army. The Graf Spee never sank, The scuttling attempt failed and the ship was bought by the British. On board was Germany’s newest radar system. One of Japan’s methods of destroying tanks was to bury a very large artillery shell with on ly the nose exposed. When a tank came near the enough a soldier would whack the shell with a hammer. “Lack of weapons is no excuse for defeat.” – Lt. Gen. Mataguchi Following a massive naval bombardment, 35,000 US and Canadian troops stormed ashore at Kiska. 21 troops were killed in the fire-fight. It would have been worse if there had been Japanese on the island. The MISS ME was an unarmed Piper Cub. While spotting for US artillery her pilot saw a similar German plane doing the same thing. He dove on the German plane and he and his co-pilot fired their pistols damaging the German plane enough that it had to make a forced landing. Whereupon they landed and took the Germans prisoner. It is unknown where they put them since the MISS ME only had two seats. Most members of the Waffen SS were not German. The only nation that Germany declared war on was the USA. During the Japanese attack on Hong Kong, British officers objected to Canadian infantrymen taking up positions in the officer’s mess. No enlisted men allowed! Nuclear physicist Niels Bohr was rescued in the nick of time from German occupied Denmark. While Danish resistance fighters provided covering fire he ran out the back door of his home stopping momentarily to grab a beer bottle full of precious “heavy water”. He finally reached England still clutching the bottle, which contained beer. Perhaps some German drank the heavy water some funny others not too funny but all the same lol
  12. oh yeah i just reminded myself, if anyone has any info on how to install 353 sets i would be very thankful if you could tell me where to look or how to do it. thanks!! on a side note just to let you know i did all the work on the landy myself as my dad has just had kidney cancer so he couldnt help me
  13. i will try to remember that lol although i dont wash engine parts in the sink lol thanks for your welcome!
  14. i have a website that i made for this vehicle so i will tear the restoration blogg i have off there after the pics! i purchased this in 2006 at the war and peace show and it looked like this: http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r296/lordwyatt666/Reacting/20-07-06_2052.jpg[/img] after doing some research and spending all of my grant money (student MV owner!) it looks like this: http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r296/lordwyatt666/Reacting/IMG_0243.jpg[/img] http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r296/lordwyatt666/Reacting/IMG_0234.jpg[/img] http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r296/lordwyatt666/Reacting/IMG_0235.jpg[/img] and heres a pic of it in its glory at the war and peace show: http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r296/lordwyatt666/Reacting/war%20and%20peace/IMG_0256.jpg[/img] its not finished as i in tend to put clansman radios back in they will be hopefully: 2 353 sets, 1 352 set. thanks for viewing comments are more than welcome!
  15. Hi All! My name is jonathan but you can call me jonny/jono i dont mind either, i am new to this forum (as you can see!). I have been into the military world since i was very young i started when i was 9 and now 10 years on i finally took the step in to the military vehicle ownership with a 1977 109 lwb series 3 land rover which i am in the stages of putting the radios into the back of, i purchased it at the 2006 KM war and peace show (i have been going to the show for the past 9 years!) and i have just come back from showing the labours of my work there (i will post pics!). Alittle about me: Age: 19 location: barnsley, south yorkshire, UK occupation: computer animation and special effects student at bradford uni thanks for reading my first post!
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