Sinking of the Blucher

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besilarius

January 23, 2017, 08:47:06 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ79i11JSnU&t=1s#t=6.627333

A very small part of the movie, The King's Choice, but very well done.
What is rather surprising, is that the torpedo battery (armed with 40 year old White head torpedoes) was kept a secret that the germans were not aware of.
"Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out until too late that he's been playing with two queens all along".  Terry Pratchett.

During filming of Airplane, Leslie Nielsen used a whoopee cushion to keep the cast off-balance. Hays said that Nielsen "played that thing like a maestro"

Tallulah Bankhead: "I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late, start without me."

"When all other trusts fail, turn to Flashman." — Abraham Lincoln.

"I have enjoyed very warm relations with my two husbands."
"With your eyes closed?"
"That helped."  Lauren Bacall

Master Chiefs are sneaky, dastardly, and snarky miscreants who thrive on the tears of Ensigns and belly dancers.   Admiral Gerry Bogan.

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January 23, 2017, 10:49:08 PM
Thank you for the post. I hadn't heard anything about this movie-- but I'm hooked now.
"Take a look at that". Sgt. Wilkerson-- CMBN. His last words after spotting a German tank on the other side of a hedgerow.

besilarius

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January 25, 2017, 07:37:56 AM
Now this is really cool. 
Those are the same guns in the movie, that fired on Blucher.  No CGI or special effects.
They fired blanks.  Probably the first time they have been fired since the 1950s.  That's really neat.
"Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out until too late that he's been playing with two queens all along".  Terry Pratchett.

During filming of Airplane, Leslie Nielsen used a whoopee cushion to keep the cast off-balance. Hays said that Nielsen "played that thing like a maestro"

Tallulah Bankhead: "I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late, start without me."

"When all other trusts fail, turn to Flashman." — Abraham Lincoln.

"I have enjoyed very warm relations with my two husbands."
"With your eyes closed?"
"That helped."  Lauren Bacall

Master Chiefs are sneaky, dastardly, and snarky miscreants who thrive on the tears of Ensigns and belly dancers.   Admiral Gerry Bogan.

besilarius

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January 25, 2017, 07:30:03 PM
Did a little research.  The guns were 11-inch Krupps, that were built in 1892.
The torpedo battery had forty year old Whitehead torpedoes that were built in Austria-Hungary.
The deft Abwehr had no idea that the torpedo battery was there.
The shot in the movie of the guns firing was done using blanks fired by the actual guns.  The fortress has never been dismantled and the last time those guns were fired was in the 1950s.
The next ship was the pocket battleship Lutzow.  They saw the torpedo hits and assumed the channel was mined.
The guncrews of the battery were new recruits who had only reported a few weeks before.  Each gun only fired on round and not reloaded.
"Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out until too late that he's been playing with two queens all along".  Terry Pratchett.

During filming of Airplane, Leslie Nielsen used a whoopee cushion to keep the cast off-balance. Hays said that Nielsen "played that thing like a maestro"

Tallulah Bankhead: "I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late, start without me."

"When all other trusts fail, turn to Flashman." — Abraham Lincoln.

"I have enjoyed very warm relations with my two husbands."
"With your eyes closed?"
"That helped."  Lauren Bacall

Master Chiefs are sneaky, dastardly, and snarky miscreants who thrive on the tears of Ensigns and belly dancers.   Admiral Gerry Bogan.
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