Originally posted by rhubarb
yes it was. fact!
my dad was an infantryman in the D Day landings and he told me that quite often the command would come down the line 'Fix Rhubarb - CHAARRRGE'
This mainly happened when the ordinary bayonets had become worn or damaged through opening tins of bully beef or other iron rations.
Rhubarb was also used when questioning captured German prisoners, its a well known fact that the average Teuton has little or no resistance to the harmful toxins contained in a stick of rhubarb. Beating them over the head, force-feeding, then inserting a nine incher up the square-heads botty may have contravened the Geneva convention but it was common practice. And it yeilded results.
Valuable information gathered from the 'Rhubarbees' as they were know was used in the successful bombing raid on the Tirpitz when a ten thousand pound 'crumble-bomb' caused a massive dent on one of herr capitaines deck-chairs.
fact!
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