Mr Chris wrote:
Nixon: "This operation will be under British command"
All: "GROAN".
Kissyfur Trufax - I know the guy who played the English tank commander. When we first met him we got him to spend the whole dinner saying stuff like "I'm sure there is a bread roll over there, but if I can't see it I can't butter the bloody thing".
I now have an amusing mental image of Simpsons/Futurama unpopular Nixon being booed at his briefing on princple by the BoB guys.
That is indeed excellent, Mr Chris. Almost equal in excellent to CUS's mighty, "He's the Boom King!" fun. Both items have made me indulge in extra laffs this week, and I thank you for this.
Read some of this book by a German infantryman. He said that the British were poor and easily disspirited in attack, but heroic and tenacious in defence. The Americans were strong and fierce attackers in the morning, but didn't bother much in the late afternoon or evening - and positively hated night attacks. (Unlike the 101st it seems.) Interesting stuff.
I always attributed the groans to the fact that any army hates to be under an ally's command and naturally they think their own side can do better. They probably could, actually. We'd lost most of our good professional troops by that point in the war. How would our troops react if they were told they were under American control? I can never blame Spielberg on this point, and if we had the guts to invest money and talent in war films of our own we could stop bleating in the tabloids that they don't show us 'proper respect'.