Remember the hero's....

[VanDamMan]

The military has strong connection with stars, the Army & marines sleep under them, the navy navigate by them and the RAF judge hotels by them

That’s cause the RAF sleep in nice beds not camp beds...full English in morning not oat meal blocks and canned milk

 

[Eli]

That’s cause the RAF sleep in nice beds not camp beds...full English in morning not oat meal blocks and canned milk

Camp beds ha ha , I should be so lucky ha ha

 

[Mooncat]

Not entirely sure how appropriate it is having my German Panzerwagen in this photo?? Maybe I should have set it on fire (the Panzerwagen, not the Union Flag)

 

[Tim Sparkes]

I'm going to have a guess, was it sold to Argentina and subsequently renamed the General Belgrano, and was later sunk by the UK's finest?
Or something like that???

Bob on. It survived Pearl Harbour and was subsequently sold to the Argentinians, renamed General Belgrano and sunk by HMS Conqueror.

 

[DaveD]

Bob on. It survived Pearl Harbour and was subsequently sold to the Argentinians, renamed General Belgrano and sunk by HMS Conqueror.

Tim, I enjoy military history but I didn't know the answer, or that it had survived Pearl Harbour. It was obvious from the question that the USS phoenix had a significant role, I knew it wasn't one of our ships so it had to be Argentinian, and I only knew of one that had a significant role, the Belgrano. The Argentinians knew that their navy was no match for ours so they didn't seek a conflict at sea, but it was a military conflict and the Belgrano was engaged in military activity.

 

[Pete C]

This is vaguely relevant. Our first trip abroad in our T6 camper was to near Ypres in Belgium. Amongst other things, we visited the grave of my great uncle, who died in France, aged 18, right at the end of the First World War. He was on a bridge with others, when the Germans blew it up.
In the picture below, his grave is the one with the small cross in front of it, which we put there. I was only the second family member to visit his grave since he died.

Pete

 

[Ghost]

25 Years ago, was the last street party I can remember, that was on 15th of August for V-J day.
Today we going to have a community based socially distanced VE Day party.
With most of the shops closed, sorting the bunting was a little “make do and mend” , but feels more in the spirit to celebrate VE Day.

 

[Jay]

Socially distanced street party all set and ready to go.

 

[Mooncat]

This is vaguely relevant. Our first trip abroad in our T6 camper was to near Ypres in Belgium. Amongst other things, we visited the grave of my great uncle, who died in France, aged 18, right at the end of the First World War. He was on a bridge with others, when the Germans blew it up.
In the picture below, his grave is the one with the small cross in front of it, which we put there. I was only the second family member to visit his grave since he died.

Pete

In 2014 I had the honour to parade at the Menin Gate in Ypres for the Last Post Ceremony.

 

[Pete C]

Excellent. We attended that ceremony when we were there.
Ypres is an great place to stay over for a few nights. As well as the Menin Gate, the museum is really good, and there is a decent campsite in comfortable walking distance from the centre too.
It’s not far to drive from the Channel tunnel terminal either.

Pete

 

[Mooncat]

We'd taken four of the RAF Air Cadet Squadrons on a WW1 historical tour for a week. At the Menin Gate the marching band from Darlington played for the ceremony and I had the easy part and just had to stand still and give the salute for the Last Post (it's a known military fact that officers can't march). It's when you realise that the 54k names at the memorial are those that have no known graves that reality sets in.