The Film A Bridge to Far

[Niigata Jack]

Just caught the last half hour or so great film seen it a good few times, watching these old war films and the brutality of war is incredible and yet we still have Wars, lesson's definitely not learnt.

Major-General Roy Urguhart played by Sean Connery said near the end that he took Ten Thousand men into Arnhem and came out with less than Two Thousand

 

[Swanjaxs]

A bridge to far... Loughor bridge

 

[RikTights Formally SLOTH]

My favourite war film is "We Were Soldiers"... mainly as it made me read the book it was based on. Hal Moore was a genuine US hero...

 

[Niigata Jack]

A bridge to far... Loughor bridge

A bridge to far for me to walk to, suffer with shin splints if I walk to far fuking painful condition

 

[Darran]

Too not To.

 

[Swanjaxs]

Too not To.

Yes you are correct

 

[TheLoneRanger]

When I was younger, I used to love watching the film,

"To Hell and Back" - the life story of Audie Murphy.​

Murphy received every U.S. military combat award for valour available from the U.S. Army for his World War 2 service.

I was chuffed when my wife took me to Arlington National Cemetery where he is buried.

 

[RikTights Formally SLOTH]

When I was younger, I used to love watching the film,

"To Hell and Back" - the life story of Audie Murphy.​

Murphy received every U.S. military combat award for valour available from the U.S. Army for his World War 2 service.

I was chuffed when my wife took me to Arlington National Cemetery where he is buried.

Sounds a lot like Hal Moore:

"Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore, whose fortitude saved most of his outnumbered battalion in 1965 in the first major battle between American and North Vietnamese troops"

We need more like him... world is going to shit with all this woke bollocks

 

[Neath_Jack]

When I was younger, I used to love watching the film,

"To Hell and Back" - the life story of Audie Murphy.​

Murphy received every U.S. military combat award for valour available from the U.S. Army for his World War 2 service.

I was chuffed when my wife took me to Arlington National Cemetery where he is buried.

I’m reading a book in which he features at the moment. It’s about the allied invasion of Italy.

 

[Professor]

Just caught the last half hour or so great film seen it a good few times, watching these old war films and the brutality of war is incredible and yet we still have Wars, lesson's definitely not learnt.

Major-General Roy Urguhart played by Sean Connery said near the end that he took Ten Thousand men into Arnhem and came out with less than Two Thousand

My grandfather was involved (sarge in the Sherwood Foresters) in 'Market Garden' the operation to take the bridges with Arnhem being the bridge 'too' far. The supply line was very stretched and substantial pockets of the Wehrmacht remained between the receiving infantry and mechanised forces to the paras. He got shot in the buttocks by a sniper. Ended up transferred to South Wales for rehab where he met my grandmother. He stayed in the army until '47 (11 years) and finished as an MP in Palestine-something which gave him bitter hatred of both sides until he died in '97. He lost a leg in the building of the 'then' Port Talbot bypass in the '60s.

 

[Niigata Jack]

My grandfather was involved (sarge in the Sherwood Foresters) in 'Market Garden' the operation to take the bridges with Arnhem being the bridge 'too' far. The supply line was very stretched and substantial pockets of the Wehrmacht remained between the receiving infantry and mechanised forces to the paras. He got shot in the buttocks by a sniper. Ended up transferred to South Wales for rehab where he met my grandmother. He stayed in the army until '47 (11 years) and finished as an MP in Palestine-something which gave him bitter hatred of both sides until he died in '97. He lost a leg in the building of the 'then' Port Talbot bypass in the '60s.

Sounds like he was a great man Prof