Comments by "vk2ig" (@vk2ig) on "Afrika Korps - Furthest South Raid" video.

  1.  @rainbowseeker5930  Well, he wasn't that loonie ... he just put himself above everyone else, e.g. stealing water to have a wash every evening despite water being one of their most precious commodities. (The other precious commodities were manpower to make the alterations to the aircraft, and cartridges for the Coffman starter.)
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  2. My grandfather served in North Africa - not exactly sure where though, as his unit (a Workshop in the Ordnance Corps) was split over a number of locations. His brother was an infantryman - one of the "Rats of Tobruk" - and is still there.
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  3. Ernest Borgnine ... I often wondered if there was any coincidence that one of the characters in Star Trek Voyager was a Borg called Seven of Nine ...
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  4. I saw 55 gallon drums with German markings on them in Tunisia late in the 1990s.
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  5.  @barriereid9244  There are still plenty of British and German mines around the El Alamein front line, too. The visitor guidebooks for Egypt warn readers not to entire fenced areas, and to note that the "fence" may consist of a single strand of wire.
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  6. German bombers getting lost at night?
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  7. What you say makes sense. But this is YouTube - the domain of confusion between we're / where / were, your / you're, its / it's, and possessive and plural forms.
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  8. There are advantages to maintaining a channel like this and rejecting the advances of the established media: it's called editorial control. Once the established media get their claws into you, you're theirs - regardless of what you think or know - because they're in it to make money.
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  9.  @45auto82  Likewise, we never hear of 8 of 9 or 9 of 9 - what happened to them. BTW, was your last sentence a Dirty Harry reference: "Well, do you, punk?"
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  10. That's like recent reflections on to whom medals were awarded for an action during the Vietnam war. As someone said, "Mates award medals to mates."
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  11. 7:15 Sergeant Wolfgang Wichmann sent SGÜ IA0WBC 03CH ... which is probably not what he really sent during the raid - it's just what was provided in the overdub of the propaganda film.
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