The one doable is Richard Burton and a 101 Paratrooper sharing a cigarette looking at a dead German officer with his boots the wrong way around.
Cheers,
Richard
Cheers,
Richard
Big movie to model.
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Or Red Buttons on the church tower at Saint Mere Eglise.
There's an excellent model of this in the Pegasus Bridge Museum in Caen. I'll dig out a picture tonight
I bet you're thinking of Paul Brickhill? (Wasn't him either!)
Pete
My memory does play tricks but I seem to remember that. Did you show it on the old Military Modelling forum?
Jim
Careful what you say Jim :smiling6: :tears-of-joy:...where's my coat? And your memory is fine.
Cheers,
Richard
I remember this scene and wondered if it really happened and was it in the Cornelius Ryan book.
Cheers,
Richard
Yes, it is in that book. The author of a later book I have could find no evidence that it actually happened, but he was writing so long after the event that he couldn't interview anyone who was there at the time.
I'll continue to believe Cornelius Ryan.
Pete
I too hope it’s true, and, to be completely honest, wouldn’t be at all surprised if it was…….
Another Spitfire vs Bridge!! - story I only read about last year - ( Copied from Wikipedia )
William Cyril Marshall DFC SCM (14 August 1918 – 1 November 2005) was a Thoroughbred horse racing trainer and owner who had the distinction of being the only person to have saddled winners from stables on four different continents.
Born in Newcastle upon Tyne, Bill Marshall was raised on a farm near Chichester where he developed his love of horses. In his early teens, he left home and made his way to Australia where he worked as a jockey for a short time before turning to training. While still only seventeen years old he headed to South Africa where he operated his own stable for a few years until the outbreak of World War II. Marshall returned to his native England and joined the Royal Air Force. In the war, Marshall, while flying back from a mission over France, realised that he was going to be very late for a date in Buckinghamshire. He was supposed to land at Tangmere, in Sussex, but diverted to Marlow, where his date awaited him in the Compleat Angler Inn. His daredevil act of flying his Spitfire under Marlow Bridge (headway Marlow Bridge = 3.86 metres,[1] Spitfire height = 3.86 metres[2]) and performing a roll impressed his girlfriend, but not an air commodore who happened to be in the bar. A report was filed, but Marshall escaped a court martial because it was wartime.[3] As a pilot, he fought in the Battle of Britain thence served with 253 squadron in North Africa before returning to England to serve in the famous 91 'Nigeria' Squadron. By the time the war ended, Marshall had been shot down twice and was the recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross as well as mentioned in dispatches. Discharged from the military, Marshall remained in England and began training National Hunt horses then Thoroughbreds for flat racing
William Cyril Marshall DFC SCM (14 August 1918 – 1 November 2005) was a Thoroughbred horse racing trainer and owner who had the distinction of being the only person to have saddled winners from stables on four different continents.
Born in Newcastle upon Tyne, Bill Marshall was raised on a farm near Chichester where he developed his love of horses. In his early teens, he left home and made his way to Australia where he worked as a jockey for a short time before turning to training. While still only seventeen years old he headed to South Africa where he operated his own stable for a few years until the outbreak of World War II. Marshall returned to his native England and joined the Royal Air Force. In the war, Marshall, while flying back from a mission over France, realised that he was going to be very late for a date in Buckinghamshire. He was supposed to land at Tangmere, in Sussex, but diverted to Marlow, where his date awaited him in the Compleat Angler Inn. His daredevil act of flying his Spitfire under Marlow Bridge (headway Marlow Bridge = 3.86 metres,[1] Spitfire height = 3.86 metres[2]) and performing a roll impressed his girlfriend, but not an air commodore who happened to be in the bar. A report was filed, but Marshall escaped a court martial because it was wartime.[3] As a pilot, he fought in the Battle of Britain thence served with 253 squadron in North Africa before returning to England to serve in the famous 91 'Nigeria' Squadron. By the time the war ended, Marshall had been shot down twice and was the recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross as well as mentioned in dispatches. Discharged from the military, Marshall remained in England and began training National Hunt horses then Thoroughbreds for flat racing
I didn’t know that….but then, I’ve never been to Marlow 
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