LRO: Re: Rovers in WWII

From: Larry Smith (lodelane@home.com)
Date: Tue Apr 03 2001 - 17:34:29 EDT

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    The one I liked was the latest WWII submarine movie (U-286 or whatever)
    where the "commandos" are off loading their ammo from a truck and the crates
    are marked with U.S. Department of Transportation hazard labels.

    Larry Smith
    Chester, VA
    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Faure, Marin" <Marin.Faure@PSS.Boeing.com>
    To: "'Land Rover Mail Group'" <LRO@works.team.net>
    Sent: 03 April, 2001 01:44 PM
    Subject: LRO: Rovers in WWII

    > Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 10:05:41 -0400
    > From: "A. P. \"Sandy\" Grice" <rover@pinn.net>
    > Subject: LRO: Rovers in WWII
    >
    > "Alex Maiolo" <Rovernut@nc.rr.com> wrote:
    >
    > >I can't think of any WWII movie that's been lame enough to use a Land
    Rover,
    > >although I have seen quite a few with much later issue jeeps.
    >
    > I saw a bit of a low-budget WWII movie a few months ago on TV. The part
    > I saw had some agent being picked up at a remote airfield to be taken into
    > or out of Germany. The plane came in to get her (I think the agent was a
    her),
    > and it was a Cessna 206. Can't get much more accurate than that.
    >
    > There's also a scene in the Pearl Harbor movie "Tora Tora Tora" where a
    > Jeep drives down a pier next to a ship. The Jeep has Warn hubs on it.
    > ___________________________
    > C. Marin Faure
    > (original owner)
    > 1973 Land Rover Series III-88
    > 1991 Range Rover Vogue SE
    > Seattle



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