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War to end all wars part 2
This page continues from War to end all wars part 1. It contains mostly photos that also appear on other pages, but it also contains some unique to this page.
Raisa
Incidentally, I was filmed buying this dress in the fashion shop Roberta in my home town. See Christchurch: Quay and Church Street. It was paid for by the university of the Dutch film crew, led by Sophie Dros, who hails from Nijmegen, site of a battle in 1944 in which British, American, and Polish parachute- and glider-borne troops fought German ground units.
Anoushka says the spacing between the trees is to facilitate the movement of T-34 tanks and other fighting vehicles.
And Charlie ain’t no Nazi
She likes to wear her leather boots
‘Cause it’s exciting for the veterans
And it’s a tonic for the troops.
— From the lyrics of She’s So Modern by the Boomtown Rats, 1978
Partisan
Louise and Rihanna (and marine guard photobombing)
When the little ships attacked the Scharnhorst, slipping through the Channel, it is said that a Polish sailor was down on the prow of his torpedo boat, calmly firing at the great battleship with a rifle. The Dutch have a calm, cold courage, and the British pretend, as usual, it is some kind of a garden party they are going to.
— John Steinbeck, War Talk, 1943
Rihanna and Louise plan the invasion
Anti aircraft gunnery training for Rebecca, Caroline, Virginia, and Joanna
It is difficult to see how the housemaids will be able to go back to dusting furniture under querulous mistresses, how the farm girls will be able to go back to the tiny farms of Scotland and the Midlands. This is the great exciting time of their lives. They are very important, these girls. The defense of the country in their area is in their hands.
— John Steinbeck, Coast Battery, 1943
“They couldn’t hit the side of a barn.” (Lina the maid)
Piccadilly commando Caroline
“They dropped what kind of bomb?”
The war ended, but the inhabitants of Teagarden B had suffered irreparable damage. They would never again live as they had done before.
Requiem for a Wren
“I think he was frightfully good as a doctor or psychologist or something because he didn’t do anything at all. He made me sit down in a chair and got a couple of cups of tea from the wardroom and gave me a cigarette and started talking about himself.”
— Nevil Shute, Requiem for a Wren, 1955
(Ah, I guess that would be a male doctor visiting from a nearby planet, Teagarden B being populated only by women…)
Rebecca contemplates an uncertain future
Laura, despite being surrounded by a loving family, was forever afterwards occasionally beset by unfathomable sadness.
Lina and Bianca retell their old flying adventures
Bianca starred in the 2007 movie Lars and the Real Girl alongside real actors. Dave in Canada bought Bianca from the production company after they finished filming. He brought her — just her face — to the UK doll convention in 2012. She borrowed my Caroline’s body for that event.
Rebecca, older
Many years have passed since those summer days
Among the fields of barley
See the children run as the sun goes down
As you lie in fields of gold.
— From the lyrics of Fields of Gold by Katie Melua, 2017, modified from the original by Sting, 1993
That modified song by Katie Melua, who is also a hang glider pilot incidentally, reminds me that none of us — organic or silicone rubber — lasts forever.
Related
Cynthia including some photos in uniform
Lars and the real Everard: My review of the 2007 movie Lars and the Real Girl
Shooting a line, my review of Requiem for a Wren by Nevil Shute, 1955
External link
Katie Melua – Fields Of Gold (Official Video) on YouTube
Brave Guys and Beautiful Dolls 