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Old 12-02-10, 06:40 PM   #54
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Originally Posted by ajrimmer42 View Post
Somehow i knew that would be Snow Drift at Bleath Gill before i clicked it lol, such a good film!
Classic stuff, that, the Elizabethan Express and the Night Mail are my favourites.

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Originally Posted by Dan D
No kidding, I mentioned the cold weather to an old guy yesterday and he said: "On December 1 in 1941, it was colder. I was 19 years old and I was 18 kilometers before Moscow wearing boots with hobnails (which are nails inserted into the soles of the boots) and summer uniform. That was cold! I realised we would lose this war."
Very humbling indeed, the beginning of the end of the Third Reich there. Lucky guy to make it out of the Eastern Front with everything still attached.
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