"OH BUGGER!" (or Embarrassing Situations)

[Gunner]

Bing was a wonderful, prolific and accurate artist as well as making us laugh with his immortal character, Herbie.

For all of you out there who refer to the Gunners as "Herbies", note the unit sign on the sign post... 10 on red over blue... 1st Survey Regiment, RCA part of 1st Canadian Corps, Italy 1943/44...

Now you know the rest of the story!

Mike

[Gunner]

I guess I should have mentioned the close relationship between the Herbies and the twins- Arty and Marty (Per Arte et Marte- "By Skill and By Valour" sometimes translated as "By Skill and By Fighting") is the motto of the Electrical and mechanical Engineers): these hard working specialists and technicians are the Yang to the Herbies Yang: we break 'em and they fix 'em!

The LAD is the Light Aid Detachment and I suspect Herbie's truck is a bit beyond even their almost magical ability to keep 'em rolling!

to the RCEME!

Mike

[Keith Brooker]

Think he is going down with his ship [car] wonder if it is still there
german car soft ground large.jpg
Original Photo from my collection.

[hrpearce]

A fiew more that were sent to me. The grader in the ice appears to still be running.

[Rich Payne]

I don't remember this one from Getty Images on here before.



Rich

[Keith Brooker]

I thought i parked my bus near the river .
Maybe its a sub
wonder if i can get it going if i give it a wipe down

[Phil Waterman]

I was looking through one of favorite safety sights (http://www.safetycenter.navy.mil/photo/index.asp ) and found this one. Here is the text under the picture:

"One of the truisms of aviation is, “Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing.”

Except this one. Fortunately for the pilot, this was one he could climb away from, as long as he didn’t get electrocuted. In fact, that may be him on the roof, just above the cockpit.

A contributor’s grandfather took this photo in Oshawa, Ontario Canada, in 1918.

Presumably this was an emergency landing. If not, it was a landing that became an emergency. Note the ladder wagon with a ladder on the side of the building, not quite tall enough to reach the plane"