Number 3…

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...

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

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!

1 hour ago, old dee said:

Don't know ET I was fighting in Poland!

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

 

Cannot believe what was happening in the world 80 years ago

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

Suck it Tigers

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.

13 hours ago, old dee said:

Don't know ET I was fighting in Poland!

Lovely to hear about the War for a change.

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

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.