[Milsurplus] Restriced articles of war (apparently)

[Barry Hauser]

Well, oddball coincidence today.  At the moment, they're showing the movie 
"Anzio" on the History Channel with Robert Mitchum, Peter Falk, etc.

There's a scene after they prematurely dug in and gave Kesselring an 
opportunity to move troops in and surround the beachhead.  Initial foray of 
Rangers gets wiped out and Mitchum, a journalist with seven survivors, 
radios into HQ on what looks like a BC-1000, working intermittently.  The 
group is so aggravated, one of them grabbed the radio, smashed it and most 
of the others join in stomping on the thing.  Someone points out that it 
wasn't a good idea to take it out on the radio.

Here a seller is trying to keep one stateside, and then that movie.  Maybe 
it was just a prop with some loose tubes.  Movie is still running as I write 
this -- I'll have to look at the fine print in the closing credits for "No 
radios were harmed in making this motion picture."  heh heh.

Moral of the story -- I have no idea -- maybe this:  That BC-1000 might be 
safer in Japan -- just don't sell to a movie company or GI's invading Italy. 
I dunno.

Barry



----- Original Message ----- 
From: <military1944 at aol.com>
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Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2006 9:33 AM
Subject: [Milsurplus] Restriced articles of war (apparently)


> 'Well, there is a price differential between the countries. There are less 
> BC-1000's in Japan,
> that's for sure, so  the price will be higher.
> But, i did prevent this particular one, the only one i control, from 
> showing
> up on the back of someone wearing a US WW2 flight jacket at some fashion 
> show overseas.'
>
>
> wow, all this fuss over a BC-1000  !!!
>
> We all thought you were selling George Washingtons personal cherry tree 
> axe.
>
> What a let down.
>
> As for the previous paragraph, anyone else make sense of the grammer ?
>
> BN.
>
>
>
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