Pickman's model said:the essex regiment, who were separate from the blank'n'tans/auxies - general percival.
Yeh, that's what I meant. They went on joint death-missions though.
Pickman's model said:the essex regiment, who were separate from the blank'n'tans/auxies - general percival.
absinthe said:Wasn't one of the butchers leading the Tans/Auxies later responsible for the defeat at Singapore? Forget his name. With the Essex Reg, brutal bunch of scum they were.
JoeBlack said:Major Percival
And according to (urban?) legend some units of the Japanese army arrived whistling the Boys of Kilmicheal and Tom Barry sent Percival a 'congratulatory' telegram.
"When Pat begins yarning about a supposedly impregnable British fortress in Singapore being liberated by Japanese cyclists singing 'The Boys of Kilmichael', closely followed by a telegram sent from a West Cork post office which read, 'Dear Major Percival. Congragtulations on another fuck-up. Yours etc. Tom Barry', you know it's time to turn the tape off and order another beer."
See also http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=69172 for some bits and pieces about Percival.
butchersapron said:
Divisive Cotton said:Almost....
revol68 said:If in doubt post something about nearly killing Thatcher, fanfuckingtastic.
Of course they never managed it and all they did do was to further strengthen the state. But hey if it gives you a hard on thinking about then why not.
"Look I know you lost your mother and father in an IRA atrocity, but don't worry they nearly got Thatcher"
Dickhead!
absinthe said:You seem to spend a lot more time having a go at the republicans than you do having a go at British Nationalists like the UVF and UDA.
Hmmm.
foggypane said:For the love of God, this thread is entitled 'IRA worship'.
never mind fucking 'Hmmmm,' nobber
absinthe said:You seem to spend a lot more time having a go at the republicans than you do having a go at British Nationalists like the UVF and UDA.
Hmmm.
revol68 said:well when someone starts posting up "heroic" images of Billy Wright and Johnny Adair whilst making excuses for their wee reigns of terror then i'll start criticising.
Believe me grwoing up catholic in small loyalist town I know what a bunch of biggoted murderous cunts loyalists are.
Not a good idea to run a business below UDA headquarters is it.revol68 said:oh come on look at the wee bastard no doubt planning another 800 hundred years of oppression, and don't even get me started on those cunts looking to buy a pound of Whiting!
Because of the collusion aspect and because they went after pretty much exclusively soft targets I think.revol68 said:and why is it only loyalists that get called deathsquads? I mean the IRA where if anything more effecient in their ability to create death by working in squads.
Why not just surround the building and arrest them?revol68 said:Just out of interest, say the Brits had intelligence that senior IRA members where meeting in a west belfast pub and decided to bomb it at it's peak hours of business, what would you make of it?