Luckless

I'm Roe, 28 (Jesus Christ I'm getting old), from grand ol' Sweden. I've been in the HBO War fandom since 2013 when I first watched the original shows. I met a bunch of the BoB guys in 2016 during a reunion, which was one of the coolest weekends of my life. I've been very vocal about my love for birds, and I've been a budgie owner since 2005. I still have five little cuties left, but they're all getting old and I'm not planning on getting any more. Mainly because I got a cat in October and he would love a bird for a snack (RIP).

Other than that? I love war history (obviously), and I've got a pretty nice little war and history library at this point. At the moment I've been reading more Swedish war history to make sense of what it was like here during WWII as a neutral (debatable) country. I just finished a book about the murder of the Swedish spy Ebba "Jane" Horney, which was interesting but a little dragged out towards the end.

Anyway, I'm putting the pictures under the cut for anyone that's interested, as well as any info on what they may have used that location for from my memory/comparing the few screencaps I've got saved (I don't have access to the Melbourne episode atm).

“[names of a major and other author] insists that there were no snipers riding the Japanese tanks annihilated in the D-Day attack at Peleliu. I have said there were, because I saw them and shot at them, as did many of my comrades. Major Hough’s authority was my own battalion commander, who was quite properly some distance behind the battle, whereas Mr. McMillan’s is a tank colonel who went over the battlefield after the fight was over. Certainly there were no snipers on the tanks by then; they’d been shot off or pulled down from their slings of camouflage netting.”

“[...] I have usually preferred the account of a man who has been in the battle to that of another who has not, even if that person happens to be the commander of the unit involved.”