Posted on 05/08/2020 5:26:26 AM PDT by C19fan
Two brothers from Boston, Lincolnshire, built an incredible, full-scale Second World War trench and bunker in their back garden during lockdown. Alfie Oglesbee, nine, and his big brother Jacob, 11, decided to construct their amazing creation just in time for the 75th anniversary of VE Day. The pair both love learning about the Second World War so they decided to find out all they could about the life of the soldiers and recreate it.
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I remember getting my 10 year old son a WWII helmet at a garage sale and he would get dressed up as a soldier with his BB gun and play war. I had a premonition at that time and 8 years later he was jumping out of planes and helicopters with the 82nd Airborne Division. Two years after that he was in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. Thank God he came home in one piece.
Awesome!
This is how kids used to play. And learn.
One would think the world would have celebrated the 75th like the 50th, but I guess the coronavirus got in the way.
Where are the rifles?
Ooooops! forgot......British civilians are now disarmed by their draconain socialist government.
Love to see them again with at least their Lee Enfield Mark IV s
But not having guns is a kind of soft Brit historical revisionist porn.
I call it, “Bleating sheep boys witout guns.”
Ha.. wait till Dad gets home from work and sees the hole in his back yard lawn... You think the GERMANS got an arse-whuppin’, you ain’t seen nothing yet...
My recollection of the tales of WWII does not involve trenches.
Am I forgetting something?
That's what happened to the cousins and me when we dug a hole that deep out back of the house one day.
Amen !
These lads have clearly learned some basic infantry skills at a young age!
In WW II trenches were often used as shelters against attacking aircraft. Dig a trench. Jump into it when the planes appear. Back to work after the planes leave.
The boy on the right appears to be holding a rifle, and just to the right of the boy on the left appears to be a Thompson with a drum magazine.
That’s where they are...
My old man was WWII Airborne, and if I’d dug a hole like that in my tiny rowhome back yard in North Philly... Yikes, I’d probably still be buried there... :^)
Aha!
Now I remember.
Thanks...
God bless you & your son.
My son wore camo to first grade, played with airsoft guns and became an Army Ranger. He too, thankfully, came home and just wrote his LAST paper for college and is now looking for a job!
Not to be a party pooper but parents need to keep an eye on kids in trenches. A collapsed wall could be a potential killer.
We constantly re-fought WWII when we were kids. The younger brothers had to be nazis (my older brother tried to reshape my plastic helmet into a German ducktail, but ended up melting it altogether), except one older kid whose parents were of German origin, and who always shouted “dummkopf” and “schweinhund” during the mock battles. He always wanted to lead the Nazi faction. He even had a swastika painted on his treehouse. I wonder what happened with that guy.
Forts Win Wars!
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