Kelly's Heroes - Oddball Traditional Cache
J@cobite: Time for this quartet of caches to be archived. Was out tonight to pick up the geo litter, sadly i couldn't find this one. Strange, as it was found last week.
Hopfully something new will pop up in the area soon.
Thanks to all who visited.
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I've Noticed Alot Of Caches Being Published For Owners Best Bands/Songs Etc.. So I Decided In My Week Off I Will Try Something Similar. I have Dedicated This Mini Series To One Of My All Time Favourite Films "Kelly's Heroes" Featuring Some Of Hollywoods Best. After The Hero's Cashed In On The Cache They Were Set Up For Life. So Here is The Chance To Go For Gold As Private Kelly And His Platoon Did! Hope You All Enjoy Happy Caching Gerrybe1 @@Well Done Johnsar FTF@@
In World War 2 France in early September 1944, units of the 35th Infantry Division are nearing the town of Nancy. When one of the division's mechanised reconnaissance platoons receives orders to pull out while under attack from the Germans. Kelly (Eastwood), a former lieutenant who has been demoted to private following a disastrous assault some time earlier, captures Colonel Dankhopf of German Intelligence. When Kelly notices that his prisoner has a gold bar in his briefcase, he gets him drunk to try to get information about the gold. Before he is killed by an attacking German Tiger tank, the drunken Dankhopf blurts out that there is a cache of 14,000 gold bars stored in a bank vault 30 miles behind enemy lines in the town of Clermont. Kelly recruits the rest of his platoon, including skeptical Master Sergeant "Big Joe" (Savalas), to sneak off and steal the gold. The platoon is only all too eager to sign up for the expedition. Eventually, others have to be recruited (or invite themselves) into the scheme, such as an opportunistic supply sergeant "Crapgame" and a Sherman tank commander from the 6th Armoured Division, "Oddball" (Sutherland).The expedition successfully breaks through a German-held town during a mortar barrage that has been arranged by Kelly. An American fighter plane mistakes Kelly's group for the enemy, strafing their vehicles and destroying them with rockets, forcing them to continue on foot, and three of their Platoon die in a subsequent skirmish in and around a minefield. Meanwhile, Oddball's tanks battle their way through the German lines, but their route is blocked when the last large bridge is blown up by Allied bombers, prompting Oddball to let a bridge engineering unit in on the deal. When intercepted radio messages of the private raid are brought to the attention of hey-ho American Major General Colt, he misinterprets them as the efforts of aggressive patriots pushing forward on their own initiative and immediately rushes to the front line to exploit the "breakthrough".Kelly's men race to reach Clermont before their own army. There, they find it defended by three Tiger tanks from the 1st SS Panzer Division with infantry support. The Troops are able to deal with most of the German infantry and destroyed two tiger tanks, As they prepare to take on the last tank, which is parked right in front of the bank, Oddball's last Sherman breaks down and cannot be repaired. Powerless to defeat the tank, Kelly offers the German tank commander a share of the loot. After the Tiger blows the bank doors off, the assembled crew finds the gold cache. After dividing the gold, the men go their separate ways, just managing to avoid meeting the still-oblivious Colt, who is delayed by celebrating town residents. Cache Placed With The Kind Permission Of South Lanarkshire Council.
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