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grizzlymc wrote: ↑Sat Mar 06, 2021 1:56 pm Could BESAs fire that?

Yep, same round. 7.92 x 57mm Mauser.

RMD wrote: ↑Sat Mar 06, 2021 8:15 am Oh and he was built like a brick shithouse. He was a local champion boxer and fought Rocky Marciano, who at the time was stationed here in the US Army. The problem was that it was a bar fight...

So did Rocky get the full "iechyd da" treatment before being "bottled" (public bar) or "glassed" (saloon bar)?

RMD wrote: ↑Sat Mar 06, 2021 1:59 pm When the Australians got the Crocodile, they had the Mk VIII version - 95mm plus flamethrower.

What a combo - Aussies, big gun AND a flamethrower! Almost makes you feel sorry for the Japs.....

Almost.

BaronVonWreckedoften wrote: ↑Sat Mar 06, 2021 2:27 pm

RMD wrote: ↑Sat Mar 06, 2021 8:15 am Oh and he was built like a brick shithouse. He was a local champion boxer and fought Rocky Marciano, who at the time was stationed here in the US Army. The problem was that it was a bar fight...

So did Rocky get the full "iechyd da" treatment before being "bottled" (public bar) or "glassed" (saloon bar)?

History doesn't record and my grandfather only mentioned that he'd had a punch up with him. I didn't believe a bloody word of it, but it was actually recounted in 'Pembrokeshire History' Magazine a few years ago, which identified the pub (the Castle Inn, Maenclochog, which oddly enough is now owned by one of my ex-cadets, who knew nothing about the story when I asked her). Marciano actually fought and lost an official bout against another Home Guard soldier in the county, but as that was an Army match, it apparently doesn't count against his 'unbeaten' record!

BaronVonWreckedoften wrote: ↑Sat Mar 06, 2021 2:30 pm

RMD wrote: ↑Sat Mar 06, 2021 1:59 pm When the Australians got the Crocodile, they had the Mk VIII version - 95mm plus flamethrower.

What a combo - Aussies, big gun AND a flamethrower! Almost makes you feel sorry for the Japs.....

Almost.

Yeah, though like the Indian Churchills, they never got them into action. They would undoubtedly have been involved in Operation CORONET (invasion of Honshu) had that happened, though with two nukes clearing the beachhead ahead of the first wave, they might have been fairly redundant.

But glowingly so.....

BaronVonWreckedoften wrote: ↑Sat Mar 06, 2021 2:50 pm But glowingly so.....

Yeah, sorry. I almost made it sound like a bad thing.

Glowing Jap zombies - there's a game in that somewhere.

+1 bite damage for buck teeth.

Brainzai!!!