Posted on 02/18/2024 1:47:06 PM PST by 11th_VA
I don’t quite follow, are you saying the earlier Brit Carriers included major (12” or better) gun turrets?
Good, I’m glad you kept out of trouble, and yes, you’d be doing time now for “Crimes Against Humanity” for what you did.
I remember when NJ threatened tax cheats with Fallschirmjager to the tune of Blondie’s One Way or Another….
Also, early war, the German WH collars were green.
Maybe they were Americans from the George Washington Brigade.😉
A battleship is not an aircraft carrier.
Wearing splinter pattern cammo on helmet- definitely Wehrmacht- buy in Montana-
The caption says “Churchill on carrier in Newfoundland, 1941.” If the caption refers to the big picture, that’s a battleship he’s walking on, not an aircraft carrier. If it refers to the inset picture of Churchill, FDR, and Stalin, that’s in Yalta, in 1945, not in Newfoundland in 1941.
My comment was a bit of obscure and pedantic humor. The Japanese did build some hybrid battleship/aircraft carriers, but they proved not useful in either role.
A US carrier (Lexington?) sported turrets for a little while and then they got rid of them after figuring out that they were largely useless.
What tipped you off?
I explained this to the staff. If it had been me, I’d have doubled back on the subcontractor and told them to correct, reprint and express ship the corrected poster. This is now. It would all be on a digital file. Pending that, I’d dummy up a corrected caption and paste it over the original. But this is now. A lot of people neither know nor care enough to be embarrassed about such mistakes.
He is also a command sergeant major (E-9). Probably around 42-47 years old.
Yep.....just kick the Montana Natl Guard while they are down. LOL
Be aware that many public relations and communications firms are staffed by clueless 20 somethings who have no grounding in history whatsoever. The background photo used was probably a stock photo from a buyout library the graphics department had at hand. The creative team simply thought this darkened and softened background was adequate to the topic. The producer and client team only cared about the foreground and print graphic elements. And they all could care less what some old person who knows what Wehrmacht uniforms look like would think… until they got caught. The entire industry is now run by snot nosed weasels who think they know better and there are no adults in the process to oversee the creative process. Witness the marketing driven disaster at Anheuser-Busch that destroyed their company image.
The did Nazi it.
s/b They did Nazi it.
Yeah the explanation can only be, some Antifart wannaba at the graphics company objected to 'promoting Christofascist militarism' in Montana -- not out of the question; or some "Battlefield V" goon obsessed with playing the WWII loser at the same graphics company decided to really give them their money's worth lol.
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