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2000th post of Kondi754, hooray, long live our birthday boy !!!

It all went so fast that I didn't even notice it.

kondi754 wrote:2000th post of Kondi754, hooray, long live our birthday boy !!!

Well, live long and prosper, Kondi!
(But did you really need to start a whole thread to congratulate yourself? )

kondi754 wrote:It all went so fast that I didn't even notice it.

Really? After they got the skins working right, you went up to like 20 post/day...

Thanks for the wishes.
I'm preparing a "special" skin of this occasion ...
With this post I wanted to "mark" the date when the two-thousandth post appeared.
(I wrote the most posts during the OoB's beta tests but must admit that the thread about camouflages is growing fast. )

Congratulations on K2k!

Congrats, Kondi!

And now that Gabe popped in just at the right time, we got to see the difference between (regular) Grenadiers and Elite Grenadiers.

Glad I could help.
(Do my ammo crates seem somewhat smaller...? )

I thought this was about the Dieppe Raid aka Op. Jubilee...

'grats!

bebro wrote:I thought this was about the Dieppe Raid aka Op. Jubilee...

'grats!

Thanks,
Promised special gift to celebrate the jubilee below.

Combat Command A from the 2nd US Armored Division crosses the river in the central part of Sicily, mid July 1943.
I will work on improving the US Army camouflage, maybe I will finish it before the Liberation DLC betatests start ...

I am late to this, but congrats, kondi. Keep up the great work.

Andy2012 wrote:I am late to this, but congrats, kondi. Keep up the great work.

Thanks Andy

Stop resurrecting this topic!

13obo wrote:Stop resurrecting this topic!

What topic? Oh, you mean like this?

Speaking of Operation Jubilee, I read this fun fact in the wiki of the operation:

"On 17 August 1942, the clue "French port (6)" appeared in the Daily Telegraph crossword (compiled by Leonard Dawe), followed by the solution, "Dieppe" the next day; on 19 August, the raid on Dieppe took place.[51] The War Office suspected that the crossword had been used to pass intelligence to the enemy and called upon Lord Tweedsmuir, then a senior intelligence officer attached to the Canadian Army, to investigate the crossword. Tweedsmuir, the son of John Buchan the author and Governor General of Canada, later commented: "We noticed that the crossword contained the word 'Dieppe', and there was an immediate and exhaustive inquiry which also involved MI5. But in the end it was concluded that it was just a remarkable coincidence—a complete fluke."[62]

A similar crossword coincidence occurred in May 1944, prior to D-Day. Multiple terms associated with Operation Overlord (including the word "Overlord" itself) appeared in the Daily Telegraph crossword (also written by Dawe), and after another investigation by MI5 this was concluded to be a remarkable coincidence as well. Further to this, a former student identified that Dawe frequently requested words from his students, many of whom were children in the same area as US military personnel.[63]"

That's quite a lot of coincidences!!

13obo wrote:Speaking of Operation Jubilee, I read this fun fact in the wiki of the operation:

"On 17 August 1942, the clue "French port (6)" appeared in the Daily Telegraph crossword (compiled by Leonard Dawe), followed by the solution, "Dieppe" the next day; on 19 August, the raid on Dieppe took place.[51] The War Office suspected that the crossword had been used to pass intelligence to the enemy and called upon Lord Tweedsmuir, then a senior intelligence officer attached to the Canadian Army, to investigate the crossword. Tweedsmuir, the son of John Buchan the author and Governor General of Canada, later commented: "We noticed that the crossword contained the word 'Dieppe', and there was an immediate and exhaustive inquiry which also involved MI5. But in the end it was concluded that it was just a remarkable coincidence—a complete fluke."[62]

A similar crossword coincidence occurred in May 1944, prior to D-Day. Multiple terms associated with Operation Overlord (including the word "Overlord" itself) appeared in the Daily Telegraph crossword (also written by Dawe), and after another investigation by MI5 this was concluded to be a remarkable coincidence as well. Further to this, a former student identified that Dawe frequently requested words from his students, many of whom were children in the same area as US military personnel.[63]"

That's quite a lot of coincidences!!

The facts about crosswords at Daily Mail were known to me before, but I didn't know it was related to children playing together.
Thanks for the valuable information, 13obo.

Yes, now that one topic we were not supposed to resurrect is firmly adressed, we just need to be clear about what other subjects should not be raised.
Everybody, name yours.