#second world war

Welcome to Greasy Popcorn’s presentation of “Action In the North Atlantic”, a 1943 War Drama produced by Jerry Wald, directed by Lloyd Bacon and adapted by John Howard Lawson from a story by Guy Gilpatric and starring Raymond Massey and Humphrey Bogart: https://youtu.be/6wODHeHHQlA

paratrooper…

“Wahai Mohammed!” “WAHAI MOHAMMED!” “Moose Heyliger and the American 101st have done the Red Devils a great service, making it possible for us to return and fight the enemy on another day. To Easy Company… victory, and Currahee!” “CURRAHEE!” Just as everyone downed their glasses, the heavy wooden door was slammed wide open. A tall, broad-shouldered Captain wrapped in a thick woollen greatcoat—with a medical stethoscope comically dangling from his neck—stepped into the room, striking an impeccably elegant pose and peering at them intently with his sky-blue eyes. Right on his heels was an earnest, wide-eyed young orderly. “I see several people here drinking without having passed a formal physical examination,” Friedrich tutted, inspecting the room with practiced disapproval. “I do not think this complies with the King’s Regulations. I fear I shall have to confiscate at least a few of those glasses.” He kept his face completely deadpan, letting the silence stretch. “Good evening, Red Devils, and Wahai Mohammed! Good evening, Easy Company, and Currahee! I had rather hoped that my family back in Surrey had taught you lot some basic manners!”

Sometimes, even a chapter that has been sitting in your drafts for two weeks, just waiting to be uploaded, undergoes a sudden, unexpected change. Life happens, and there is so much of my real life in my stories (only the interesting parts, though, as I recently said on reddit - Unhinged AO3 tags.) And Bonnie dying had as much of an impact on me as Ozzy dying last year.

Chapter Six of "We'll Meet Again" was originally titled "A Bridge Too Far... or not?" since it deals with Operation Market Garden, its aftermath, and related actions like Operation Pegasus. Yet, with Bonnie Tyler passing away just a few days ago, a brand-new title completely took over my mind: "Holding out for a hero."

The imagery just fit too perfectly—the British Red Devils holding the line in Arnhem, desperately waiting to be relieved by the tanks, and the boys of Easy Company scanning the horizon, hoping to cross paths with Major Friedrich von Trapp (RAMC). Bonnie surely would have loved the gallows humor and the sheer audacity of this chapter!

Come and relive the grueling, muddy days of Market Garden and Pegasus with us. Let's explore the deep bonds of battlefield friendship, stolen Dutch lager, and the raw realities of war trauma over a tin cup of Nescafé, with a small thought for an 80s icon.

"We'll meet again" is an M-rated Band of Brothers x The Sound of Music crossover by me (BlackandPinkUnicornGuardian), where the Sound of Music part is set in my "Remember Tomorrow universe": the film story takes place in 1926, therefore Georg and Maria as well as the older Trapp children are all involved in Britain's war effort. The Band of Brothers side is fully canon-compliant.

Not a slash fic; all romantic relationships are already established and only serve as a background (ie. Georg and Maria on the home front; Nancy awaiting Friedrich's return from war.)

Read the new chapter here: