Congratulations to Mr. Prewitt. It should be noted, however, that France’s highest order of merit is called the Legion of Honour (Légion d’honneur), not the Legion of Armour, and also that France doesn’t actually have knighthoods in the same sense as Britain does. “Chevalier” (knight) is indeed one of the Legion of Honour’s five levels, and the name is a holdover from the days when France still had an aristocracy, but the French nobility system went out the window with the French Revolution. I once saw a series of amusing cartoons depicting what life in France would be like today if the Bourbon monarchy hadn’t fallen, and one of them showed an irate air traveler standing at the ticket counter of “Royal Air France” and telling the ticket agent “But I’m a baron and I have a confirmed reservation!” The agent replies, “I’m sorry, sir, but the Duke of So-and-so has precedence over you, so we gave him your seat.” In fairness, the same sort of thing actually happens in real-life republican France. A few years ago, there was scandal involving one of the major D-Day anniversaries (I think it was the 50th one), when the French government contacted various hotels in Normany and appropriated some of their existing reservations so that various French officials could have rooms for the event. Some of those rooms, however, had been reserved by foreign veterans of the D-Day invasion. When the story broke on the front page of French newspapers (under such headlines as “Our Liberators Insulted!”), public opinion was outraged and the French government beat a hasty retreat. The prevailing editorial opinion over this affair was: Do this to our own citizens if you want, but don’t do this to the heroes who ended the occupation of France.
Favorite WWII song?
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One of the Russian songs I like best from this era is “Moscow in May” (http://www.sovmusic.ru/english/text.php?fname=moscmay3). Very catchy tune, even if you don’t understand any Russian (which I don’t).
It’s slightly pre-war (1937) and it’s patriotic rather than military, but it shows up in an early sequence of The Battle of Russia, Part 1", one of Frank Capra’s “Why We Fight” series of films, accompanied by shots of a huge parade through Red Square (it starts at 8:50 in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Q1OKMlhRXQ).
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the day the nazi died-chumbawamba
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Wenn Wie Soldaten or Panzerlied for Germany
Any of the partiotic Russian marches
Definitely nothing from Japan…the Godzilla soundtrack is much better.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KecIdlEAKhU Jonny Horton “Sink the Bismarck”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo4pBlLL-wM&feature=related “Ballad of Audie Murphy”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHcunREYzNY&feature=related Vera Lynn “We’ll meet again”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOLOVoO3k3g&feature=related Glenn Miller “Dannyboy”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMDb9n6otaE&feature=related Andrews Sisters “Boogie Woogie”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7Rs8aCHgRc&feature=related “Halls of Montezuma”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH4-tOqLH94&feature=related ssgt Barry Sadler “Ballad of Green Beret”
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=as_d9_3NkB0 Budge - Panzer Division D-Stroyed!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KecIdlEAKhU Jonny Horton “Sink the Bismarck”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo4pBlLL-wM&feature=related “Ballad of Audie Murphy”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHcunREYzNY&feature=related Vera Lynn “We’ll meet again”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOLOVoO3k3g&feature=related Glenn Miller “Dannyboy”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMDb9n6otaE&feature=related Andrews Sisters “Boogie Woogie”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7Rs8aCHgRc&feature=related “Halls of Montezuma”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH4-tOqLH94&feature=related ssgt Barry Sadler “Ballad of Green Beret”
Congratulations Razor you have the WINNER with “The Halls of Montezuma” Fishmoto37
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“Lili Marlene”, “We’ll meet again”, and “It’s a long way to Tipperary”.
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