Photo downloaded from the internet, IIRC an article about Remembrance or "Poppy" Day events in England.
The article said that the C-47 Skytrain in the photo was an ex-RAF Dakota, despite it being painted in US Army Air Force livery, but it earned it's invasion stripes dropping paras behind Sword Beach on June 6th.
And, yes, those are poppies.
Today's rabbit holes include:
Obviously, I was in a mood to Say Yah to da UP, eh today. Holy Wah and all dat.
That particular Wikipedia Rabbit Hole exploration was actually sparked by a Tweet in Iowahawk's Twitter weekly (or more often) feature #DavesCarIDService. (URL included, since embedding tweets these days is a mess in my browser.)
(Look, I understand if you don't want to get on Twitter, but Dave "Iowahawk" Burge's feed is worth it, if only for #DavesCarIDService, especially if you have old family photos featuring cars. Tweet him with the hashtag, and he'll try to get it when he can.)
Speaking of Iowahawk and old cars, another Wikipedia expedition started out with the
*If so, I don't blame them, especially since they probably discouraged tourists, and it sounds like it was pretty hard to get to. Also, closed by the time I was old enough to visit on my own.
I want you to imagine picking up every resident of a medium-sized city, everything they'll need to eat and drink and rest for a few days, any vehicles they might need, gasoline, of course, plus lots of guns and ammo -- did I mention this was a hunting trip? -- and then moving them all in a few short hours a distance of anywhere from 30 to 125 miles or so.
Now imagine you have to move all those people and all that stuff partly by air, but mostly across heavy seas in foul weather.
Under enemy fire.
I should also mention that if you messed up any of the big details, a lot of your people are going to die, and then you're going to have to figure out how to move them all back without getting too many more of them killed.
