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* At the end of [[Smarmy Host|Bill Grundy]]'s [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p25SdQEnhHI&feature=related notorious interview] with the [[Sex Pistols]], he appeared to mumble 'oh shit' under his breath. 'Oh shit' indeed - the [[Cluster F-Bomb|profanity-laden]] interview [[Creator Killer|turned his name to mud]] overnight.
* The Normandy Invasion in [[World War II]] used [[wikipedia:DD tank|DD Tanks]], a very early amphibious model which had a skirt that extended up higher than the turret, providing buoyancy. They weren't as effective as hoped, and on Omaha beach almost all of them sank before reaching shore, but the first to actually reach Juno beach looked out and later shared their view:
{{quote| I was the first tank coming ashore and the Germans started opening up with machine guns. But when we came to a halt on the beach, it was only then that they realized we were a tank when we pulled down our canvas skirt, the floatation gear. Then they saw that we were Shermans. It was quite amazing. I still remember very vividly some of the machine gunners [[Oh Crap|standing up in their posts looking at us with their mouths wide open]]. To see tanks coming out of the water shook them rigid.}}
** At Midway, the scout Catalina's co-pilot the day before the battle proper happened.
{{quote| It's the whole damn Jap Navy!}}
*** I thought that was what they wanted?
** And later, as the crews of the Japanese carriers were watching the anti-aircraft and fighter cover massacre the low flying torpedo bombers, somebody finally looked up to see the American dive bombers rolling into their dives.
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