Love it!

Ty ty ty!!!

V.

Fun story with a lot of lessons.

*smiles... thanks much Helix...

V.

(applauds) Excellent!

*gives him a proper curtsy...

V.

Oh very good! I wonder how the prissy collie will feel when he's in the box being shot at?

I do hope he doesn't piss himself...

V.

Wouldn't be the first time.

Nothing like having your ass handed to you.

Bunners

everyone loves a happy ending, yes?

V.

OOPS... ^_^

yessssss... big oops...

V.

"...just a bit of military history..." with a Vixyy twist. Good one!

*smiles so very big.... thanks old buddy...

V.

You know, I've always wondered what the tally was:

Men killed by tanks
VS
Men killed IN tanks

I really don't know which would be higher.

That would be an interesting study I'm sure... to me, these early tanks were nothing short of incredible just based upon what they had to build with. The same goes for their airplanes. By the end of the war, these aviators were flying and fighting above 12K feet without oxygen.

I read that the very first tank battle was a success, except there was no follow up being that the army had no idea what they had, and never planned that far ahead. Had the attack been properly coordinated, the British cold have broken through the lines and lines of trenches and pushed all the way to Germany.

V.

A rather sluggish Blitzkrieg, but they could've done it, yes. They didn't try using them that way, IIRC.

history always amazes me - but then we look at it in hind sight...

V.

It's very easy to sit back with a century's worth of experience and practice and laugh about how dumb they were not to have done it -this- way the first time out of the gate.

S'also quite disingenuous. Most of the folks laughing couldn't sort out how to do it themselves right now...

*smiles... the Vikings actually had a god of hind sight.

V.

*smiles...

V.

Very good V, yes the whole ancestry thing could get quite complicated! I always found it one of history's ironies that the first commander of the British Expeditionary Forces in WW1 was called Sir John French...

*laughs... that is rich...

V.