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56 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

Number 3…

Who could tell, from this, that just 27 days earlier, had come this, on a much more consequential 'Number 2':

https://www.nfsa.gov.au/collection/curated/asset/96113-menzies-speech-declaration-war

Some learnings, that never seem to sink in...

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    17 hours ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

    @old dee, what was the atmosphere like at the ground? 

    Don't know ET I was fighting in Poland!

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    7 hours ago, old dee said:

    Don't know ET I was fighting in Poland!

    Yikes, I won't ask which side.

    A small snippet of 1940

     

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    Cannot believe what was happening in the world 80 years ago

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    On 06/11/2024 at 17:48, Ethan Tremblay said:

    @old dee, what was the atmosphere like at the ground? 

    I'm not Old Dee, but I can say that from memory the atmosphere was electric.

    Having said that I was pretty young at the time.

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    Lovely to hear about the War for a change.

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    17 hours ago, Fanatique Demon said:

    Anyone else notice, in the first few minutes of the film, how slim people were back then?

    Yeah, 8 years of Great Depression with food rations would do that to a society

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    9 hours ago, Katrina Dee Fan said:

    Yeah, 8 years of Great Depression with food rations would do that to a society

    So true KDF the Great Depression left the population fairly lean and mean, add 6 years of WW2 with food rationing and no such thing as fast food outlets, just basic necessities and yet they got through it. I have watched a lot of history including WW1 & 2 footage all the troops and populace on both sides were lean fit and resilient.

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