“DUNKIRK ... Once in a War there was a miracle” (1 Viewer)

[King & Country]

Hi Guys,

Here’s a little advance “look-see” at our 12 page, full colour “DUNKIRK” brochure which is in the works at the moment.
The “FIELDS of BATTLE” series has always been one of my personal favourite K&C ranges. From a family point-of-view one of my uncles was captured with most of the 51st. Highland Division at St. Valery in France on June 12, 1940.
My Uncle Alec was a piper with the 5th. Btn. Gordon Highlanders and spent the next 5 years in various P.O.W. camps in Poland. Early in 1945 as the Red Army advanced his camp was closed and him and his mates were put on a forced march in the dead of winter towards Germany.
Eventually they ended up in Fallingbostel, north of Hanover and were liberated by fellow British troops in May 1945.
K&C’s “Fields of Battle” series is dedicated to Piper Alec Taylor, 5th. Btn. Gordon Highlanders 1940-45.
Hope you like the layout and a wee bit of family history ...

Best wishes and happy collecting!
Andy

 

[LTC PaulN]

Lads,

Looks like Andy just shared a sneak peek at a couple of new trucks... A Morris carrying litters, and a Bedford(?). I don't really collect the FoB line, but those pieces are new...

 

[Guest]

Lads,

Looks like Andy just shared a sneak peek at a couple of new trucks... A Morris carrying litters, and a Bedford(?). I don't really collect the FoB line, but those pieces are new...

The Morris is an old set and the litters look like the ones from the old FOB set, plus the Bedford is an old one as well, I cannot see anything new, but hopefully I have missed something, great range.

 

[Desertkiwi]

I've been looking for some British & Commonwealth figures suitable for the early Greece & Crete campaigns and have been looking more at the FOB series to see if some of them would fit. I'm not an expert on uniforms, but judging from my research thus far some would work well with that period.

Just wondering what other members thought?

At the moment my focus is creating some opposition for some grey K&C FJ's on Crete.

Thanks in advance.

Toddy

 

[Patton]

Noticbly absent was a French UE carrier. It would have been nice to have a new vehicle rather than rehash current figures or the deleted Bedford.

 

[Panzer ace]

Perfect timing with the upcoming movie by the same name!!!!!!

 

[Patton]

Yes I would have mentioned the 2017 movie but I thought it probably belonged in the movie section.

Dunkirk (1958) had John Mills and Richard Attenborough.

I wonder if either movie has a French UE carrier in it ^&grin^&grin

 

[Desertkiwi]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QijbOCvunfU

When I think of Dunkirk and the retreat across France I'm often reminded of this clip from the movie 'Atonement'.

It's a haunting scene that captures what must have seemed a truly hopeless situation for those on the beach.

Time and time again it was the Navy boys that came to the rescue in those early years of WW2.

Dunkirk, Norway, Greece, Crete & Malta are a few incidents that come to mind.

 

[TomNT]

[QUOTE=Desertkiwi;

When I think of Dunkirk and the retreat across France I'm often reminded of this clip from the movie 'Atonement'.

It's a haunting scene that captures what must have seemed a truly hopeless situation for those on the beach.

Time and time again it was the Navy boys that came to the rescue in those early years of WW2.

Dunkirk, Norway, Greece, Crete & Malta are a few incidents that come to mind.[/QUOTE)

Good clip Toddy, a lot of effort has gone into making the beach scene look authentic.

Tom

 

[Patton]

Have checked wikipedia for the details on the Atonement movie.

Just be aware that the movie is more a tragedy romance than a war movie. The Dunkirk scenes / subplot is just a plot device.


cheers

 

[Poppo]

Dunkirk, Norway, Greece, Crete & Malta are a few incidents that come to mind.[/QUOTE]





What incident happened in Malta? {sm2}

 

[Desertkiwi]

Dunkirk, Norway, Greece, Crete & Malta are a few incidents that come to mind.

What incident happened in Malta? {sm2}[/QUOTE]

My comment you have quoted refers to the Royal Navy coming to the rescue of such places in the early stages of WW2.

I'm a little surprised you don't seem to know much about the Siege of Malta during 1940 to 1942 which pitted the air forces and navies of Italy and Germany against the Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy. The Axis resolved to bomb or starve Malta into submission, by attacking its ports, towns, cities, and Allied shipping supplying the island. Malta was one of the most intensively bombed areas during the war.

As I've mentioned before the Mediterranean Theatre of the Second World War has much to offer in regards to TS and I'm ever hopeful we'll see a little more focus on this area sometime in the not to distant future.

 

[Captain Smart]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QijbOCvunfU

When I think of Dunkirk and the retreat across France I'm often reminded of this clip from the movie 'Atonement'.

It's a haunting scene that captures what must have seemed a truly hopeless situation for those on the beach.

Time and time again it was the Navy boys that came to the rescue in those early years of WW2.

Dunkirk, Norway, Greece, Crete & Malta are a few incidents that come to mind.

This clip was filmed in my 'kneck of the woods' Redcar a little forgotten seaside resort that has seen better days on the North East Coast of England. When its not raining or grey, the beach is a lovely stretch of sand approximately 3 miles long and well worth a visit.

Atonement is a 2001 British historic fiction novel written by Ian McEwan concerning the understanding and responding to the need for personal atonement. Set in three time periods, 1935 England, Second World War England and France, and present-day England, it covers an upper-class girl's half-innocent mistake that ruins lives; her adulthood in the shadow of that mistake; and a reflection on the nature of writing.

Widely regarded as one of McEwan's best works, it was shortlisted for the 2001 Booker Prize for fiction. In 2010, TIME magazine named Atonement in its list of the 100 greatest English-language novels since 1923.

In 2007, the book was adapted into a BAFTA and Academy Award-nominated film of the same title, starring Saoirse Ronan, James McAvoy and Keira Knightley, and directed by Joe Wright

 

[Poppo]

What incident happened in Malta? {sm2}

My comment you have quoted refers to the Royal Navy coming to the rescue of such places in the early stages of WW2.

I'm a little surprised you don't seem to know much about the Siege of Malta during 1940 to 1942 which pitted the air forces and navies of Italy and Germany against the Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy. The Axis resolved to bomb or starve Malta into submission, by attacking its ports, towns, cities, and Allied shipping supplying the island. Malta was one of the most intensively bombed areas during the war.

As I've mentioned before the Mediterranean Theatre of the Second World War has much to offer in regards to TS and I'm ever hopeful we'll see a little more focus on this area sometime in the not to distant future.[/QUOTE]



I know about it.And Mussolini wasn't brave enough to land in Malta. But you mentioned Dunkirk, Norway, Greece, Crete... In all those battles the british army was defeated and left, while in Malta they resisted and won. That is why, I saw no connection among Dunkirk, Norway, Greece, Crete on one side and Malta on the other

 

[LTC PaulN]

After Crete, when the FJ's came off of the Island, there was a thought to try to take Malta by another Airborne adventure. The Op never came off, and the FJ's that were to be the nucleus of a combined German-Italian effort were sent to the Libyan Desert to join the Afrika Korps as the Ramcke Brigade.

 

[Poppo]

After Crete, when the FJ's came off of the Island, there was a thought to try to take Malta by another Airborne adventure. The Op never came off, and the FJ's that were to be the nucleus of a combined German-Italian effort were sent to the Libyan Desert to join the Afrika Korps as the Ramcke Brigade.

Cyprus and Malta.Because the FJ slaughter in Malta was so important that Hilter never allowed big parachutings during the rest of the war.

 

[LTC PaulN]

Malta was pressing as it was along the Mediterranean sea lane vital to resupplying the forces in Egypt and land based fighters and bombers operating from there could interdict vessels sailing between Italy and Libya/Tunisia.

I'm not familiar with the ambition to get Cyprus as well.

 

[LTC PaulN]

You mean the cost of FJ losses in Crete?

 

[Poppo]

Malta was pressing as it was along the Mediterranean sea lane vital to resupplying the forces in Egypt and land based fighters and bombers operating from there could interdict vessels sailing between Italy and Libya/Tunisia.

I'm not familiar with the ambition to get Cyprus as well.

After Kreta Hitler had planned to invade Cyprus, and then Malta.

 

[Desertkiwi]

My comment you have quoted refers to the Royal Navy coming to the rescue of such places in the early stages of WW2.

I'm a little surprised you don't seem to know much about the Siege of Malta during 1940 to 1942 which pitted the air forces and navies of Italy and Germany against the Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy. The Axis resolved to bomb or starve Malta into submission, by attacking its ports, towns, cities, and Allied shipping supplying the island. Malta was one of the most intensively bombed areas during the war.

As I've mentioned before the Mediterranean Theatre of the Second World War has much to offer in regards to TS and I'm ever hopeful we'll see a little more focus on this area sometime in the not to distant future.

I know about it.And Mussolini wasn't brave enough to land in Malta. But you mentioned Dunkirk, Norway, Greece, Crete... In all those battles the british army was defeated and left, while in Malta they resisted and won. That is why, I saw no connection among Dunkirk, Norway, Greece, Crete on one side and Malta on the other [/QUOTE]

No probs. The connection I was trying to make was how the Navy came to the rescue. Malta wouldn't have survived without the supply ships getting through. These were desperate times when nothing seemed to be going the Allies way.