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This summer I went to Crete with my wife and daughter. We went to visit several towns and cities, and a few museums and archaeological sites. We also did a trip to western Crete, where the area of the FH2 map “Crete” is. On that day, we visited Suda Bay, Maleme and Chania, to see places where the Battle of Crete raged in May 1941.



First we visited Suda Bay. Apart from the bay itself, there is only the war cemetery to remember the Battle of Crete. It is a very beautiful war cemetery, lying at the side of the bay, giving the Commonwelath soldiers who died on Crete their final resting place. There are about 1500 graves there, not only from the Battle of Crete in 1941, but also some World War I graves and some graves of soldiers who died on Crete later in the war (mostly airmen).

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After Suda Bay we continued to Maleme. The German war cemetery is there, situated on Hill 107. At the foot of the hill, there is a small cafe (fittingly called Cafe 107) and the guy running it also has an exhibition in his garden of his own private war collection.



From the hill you can see the present day airfield of Maleme, which isn’t accessible to the public.



In the private war collection there is a Bofors AA gun, bought by the guy running the 107 cafe. All other stuff he found himself in the surrounding area and other parts of Crete. In summertime he runs the cafe and the exhibition, in wintertime he drives around everyday to find more stuff.



The Bofors


German Kraftstoff


Some barrels. I think they are PAK40 and Bofors, anyone able to confirm?


Parts of Junkers52


No1 SMLE barrels


German ammoboxes


Parts of Pz38(t)


Parachute dropboxes for weapons and ammo


MG15 and MG34


Parts of a BF109


Italian medipack (just like the FH2 one )


German medipack (this one doesn’t look like the FH2 one)


British gear, like helmets, rangefinder, bags, shoes, etc.


German gear, like canteens, gasmasks, medals


German helmets (Wehrmacht and Fallschirmjäger), Eihandgranate and piece of parachute


Me and my daughter in front of the private war collection
 

After Maleme we went to Chania. This is quite a large town and the best example of the scaling of the FH2 map

In Chania there are almost no traces left of the war, only these few bombed out buildings:



We didn’t go to Sfakia (Chora Sphakion), but I read about British soldiers who were at Chania and Rhetimnon (another town on the norhtern coast which was defenbded by the Commonwealth troops in May 1941). Those at Chania went south to Chora Sphakion to be evacuated to Egypt. Those at Rhetimnon didn’t get the order, so they kept on fighting against the Germans until they were eventually captured. The ones who did cross over to the south, had to wait on the beches for the ships to come. First the officers and the older soldiers were being evacuated, and when the ships were full, the soldiers who were still on the beaches were told they had to wait tob e captured by the Germans. When the Germans eventually came, they ordered the British to march back across the mountains to stay in captivity at Chania for the time being. Knowing the infratsructure of Crete being almost non-existent in the 40s, it must have been one hell of a walk, first from Chania to Chorfa Sphakion across the White Mountains, and then back in captivity.

It was a nice trip and I learned yet even more about the Battle of Crete and it was also nice to see the actual places wqhere the battle was fought.

I have to teach on a new subject: the United States and their federal government, 1865-1965. Since I always like to make my lessons more enjoyable by adding some film or documentary (or fragments of them), I'm asking whether any of you guys know good films and/or documentaries about the period 1865-1965.

I need to teach about three topics withtin the big subject:
- economics
- foreign policy
- civil rights

I already have the following:
* Birth of a Nation (civil rights)
* The Untouchables (economics)
* Mississippi Burning (civil rights)
* Tora! Tora! Tora! (foreign policy)
* Malcolm X (civil rights)
* Martin Luther King stuff (civil rights)

Hoi,

Ik vind het een goed plan van Hawkeye om een apart topic te hebben voor ons team, ook al zijn we volgens mij de enigen tot nu toe.

Post hier al je plannen, ideeën, tactieken, en voor de duidelijkheid nog even je deelname.

Ook zou het handig zijn als iedereen post op welke avonden hij/zij public kan spelen om wat te oefenen. Ik zal zelf beginnen:


Ik doe mee met het team!
Ik heb nog geen strijdplan.
Ik kan op woensdag, vrijdag en zaterdag meestal wel spelen.

I have AVG Free version 9.0.707 as anti-virus software, but since I have been using this, my game gets minimized and I go to desktop every 15 minutes or something like that.

When I press Alt+Tab I see of course FH2, and always AVG Free as a running process. When I Alt+Tab a few seconds later, AVG is gone. So, I suspect AVG to be pompted on top from time to time, causing my game to minimize. I don't have to explain how annoying this is: 9 out of 10 times I'm dead when I return to the game.

Does anyone else have this? Does anyone know which setting is causing this? I have been searching, but all I found was that I should change to a different anti-virus program. Also, in my advanced settings in AVG, I have "Gaming mode" enabled. It says: "enable gaming-mode whenever a fullscreen application is executed."



Hey, seems like I found a solution: http://forums.avg.com/ww-en/avg-free-forum?sec=thread&act=show&id=37907

So I'm gonna uninstall and reinstall AVG free 9.0 and see if it works.

Yesterday we were playing Alam Halfa on hslan. I had put my mines in the passage for the axis tanks and then sat in the 2 Pounder.

First axis tank passes, I spot it with the 2 Pounder and when I pressed "Armour", the tank blew up. I thought I accidentally fired at him with the 2 Pounder and 1-shot him, but later a Kubel came along an also got blown up, but... I wasn't shooting at all! So I think they got killed by my mines, and the game turned the killweapin from mines into the 2 Pounder. Here are the screens. Note how you can see that I make both kills, while my ammo stays the same.

I'm not sure whether this is a bug, but yesterday we were playing Mareth Line and all flags had gone British. There were a few Germans left, of which one was a SL. Until yesterday, I was convinced that you couldn't spawn on your SL if your team didn't hold any flags. Yet yesterday this SL kept spawning 1 guy several times in the period of time in which the German team had no flags. I wasn't the only one who noticed, as psykfallet (iirc) was also typing a question about it in allchat. So... what was that about?

I have a screenshot of the guy who just spawned. In the top left corner you can see the killmessage in which Dukat just killed that guy, but you can see him alive again in the screenshot, running away from his SL.

When I started out posting bug reports, I overdid it a little with a pic of every piece of vegetation in Fall of Tobruk. I learned from that: I have only 1 pic now, and it is of a bush coming through the wall of a house on Sfakia 16. I'm posting it because small trees/bushes inside houses is not realistic imo. On the pic it seems small because of the weaving movements it makes, but it is rather big.