DEEJAYKEG Posted October 31, 2010 Member ID: 1238 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 35 Topic Count: 1207 Topics Per Day: 0.23 Content Count: 6083 Content Per Day: 1.18 Reputation: 4984 Achievement Points: 50727 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 11 Joined: 03/12/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 11 Device: Kindle Fire Share Posted October 31, 2010 I've been made aware of a magazine called Britain At War. Its website contains some articles about World War 2 that you may find interesting. You'll find the content at http://www.britain-at-war-magazine.com/baw-online/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Sonovabich Posted October 31, 2010 Member ID: 82 Group: ** Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 1534 Topics Per Day: 0.29 Content Count: 5020 Content Per Day: 0.94 Reputation: 5171 Achievement Points: 131490 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 116 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 1 hour ago Device: Windows Share Posted October 31, 2010 According to Hollywood Britain did'nt take part in ww2 did we? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEEJAYKEG Posted October 31, 2010 Member ID: 1238 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 35 Topic Count: 1207 Topics Per Day: 0.23 Content Count: 6083 Content Per Day: 1.18 Reputation: 4984 Achievement Points: 50727 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 11 Joined: 03/12/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 11 Device: Kindle Fire Author Share Posted October 31, 2010 Sonovabich According to Hollywood Britain did'nt take part in ww2 did we? It's conveniently overlooked that, when France fell, Britain stood alone against the Axis. (Indeed, one wonders what could have happened had Nazi Germany not declared war on the USA following the Japanese Pearl Harbour attack. There's said to be a movie in the works based on a Philip K Dick alternative history.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
GorillaXI Posted October 31, 2010 Member ID: 62 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 73 Topic Count: 480 Topics Per Day: 0.09 Content Count: 4124 Content Per Day: 0.77 Reputation: 1413 Achievement Points: 27905 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 10 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: July 4, 2015 Birthday: 06/16/1972 Share Posted October 31, 2010 If it wasn't for us Yanks you'd be speaking German now. Your Welcome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEEJAYKEG Posted October 31, 2010 Member ID: 1238 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 35 Topic Count: 1207 Topics Per Day: 0.23 Content Count: 6083 Content Per Day: 1.18 Reputation: 4984 Achievement Points: 50727 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 11 Joined: 03/12/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 11 Device: Kindle Fire Author Share Posted October 31, 2010 Gorilla>XI< If it wasn't for us Yanks you'd be speaking German now. Your Welcome So we are reminded quite frequently, but thank you for jogging this forgetful Brit's memory once again. The more likely outcome, I suggest, is that a great many of us wouldn't be here at all, especially those of us whose parents were in uniform when it all happened. (Some of us speak German voluntarily, if badly! ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
GorillaXI Posted October 31, 2010 Member ID: 62 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 73 Topic Count: 480 Topics Per Day: 0.09 Content Count: 4124 Content Per Day: 0.77 Reputation: 1413 Achievement Points: 27905 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 10 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: July 4, 2015 Birthday: 06/16/1972 Share Posted October 31, 2010 My Grandfather faught Romel in Africa, And Yes I speak German voluntarily also. Lest you forget that the Canadians and Australians, and almost every other English speaking nation payed for all of our freedom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarryWeezer Posted November 1, 2010 Member ID: 20166 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 40 Topic Count: 611 Topics Per Day: 0.16 Content Count: 7652 Content Per Day: 1.98 Reputation: 7228 Achievement Points: 53663 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 36 Joined: 10/04/13 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 16 Birthday: 10/16/1946 Device: Windows Share Posted November 1, 2010 Had Japan not attacked us when it did, it would have eventually, as would have Germany. Thanks, our British friends, for holding 'em off until we could get over there. And by the way, about that business where you burned down the White House... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
DEEJAYKEG Posted November 1, 2010 Member ID: 1238 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 35 Topic Count: 1207 Topics Per Day: 0.23 Content Count: 6083 Content Per Day: 1.18 Reputation: 4984 Achievement Points: 50727 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 11 Joined: 03/12/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 11 Device: Kindle Fire Author Share Posted November 1, 2010 Gorilla>XI< My Grandfather faught Romel in Africa, And Yes I speak German voluntarily also. Lest you forget that the Canadians and Australians, and almost every other English speaking nation payed for all of our freedom. As a member of the Royal British Legion, my friend, I am unlikely to forget... My wife's uncle was a Lt Colonel in the New Brunswicks of Canada, stationed locally here and we have a military cemetery full of the fallen of that nation, from two wars, five miles from our home. My mother, who ran a Royal Air Force kitchen, fed some of the pilots from Poland, Czechoslovakia and elsewhere who took to the skies over England to fight off the Luftwaffe in 1940. This is Acting Pilot Officer Billy Fiske, from Brooklyn NY, the first American RAF pilot to be killed, in August 1940: We mustn't forget the brave Yanks who, ahead of their own country's conflict with the enemy, came over to the UK and signed up with the RAF as RAF pilots. Whilst we finally managed to repay the monetary debt owed to the USA, in 2006, we cannot repay the debt of blood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
DEEJAYKEG Posted November 1, 2010 Member ID: 1238 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 35 Topic Count: 1207 Topics Per Day: 0.23 Content Count: 6083 Content Per Day: 1.18 Reputation: 4984 Achievement Points: 50727 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 11 Joined: 03/12/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 11 Device: Kindle Fire Author Share Posted November 1, 2010 SgtHarryWeezer Had Japan not attacked us when it did, it would have eventually, as would have Germany. Thanks, our British friends, for holding 'em off until we could get over there. And by the way, about that business where you burned down the White House... LMAO! Harry, you are a star, my friend! If it's not the "we saved your asses" speech, it's the "we whipped your asses" one! LOL! As for the White House, I guess we're in deep crap because there are many Irish in America and they haven't forgiven us for Oliver Cromwell yet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Milky Posted November 1, 2010 Member ID: 1786 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 37 Topic Count: 133 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 1062 Content Per Day: 0.21 Reputation: 729 Achievement Points: 7865 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 2 Joined: 09/11/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 28, 2023 Birthday: 07/21/1985 Device: Windows Share Posted November 1, 2010 Now this in controversial.. but i have actually heard a french dude saying this that UK and USA werent in the war and that France didnt need USA to win the war.. so just so you know the French didnt need you guys... hmm????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
DEEJAYKEG Posted November 1, 2010 Member ID: 1238 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 35 Topic Count: 1207 Topics Per Day: 0.23 Content Count: 6083 Content Per Day: 1.18 Reputation: 4984 Achievement Points: 50727 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 11 Joined: 03/12/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 11 Device: Kindle Fire Author Share Posted November 1, 2010 Milky Now this in controversial.. but i have actually heard a french dude saying this that UK and USA werent in the war and that France didnt need USA to win the war.. so just so you know the French didnt need you guys... hmm????? Ignore such morons and be proud of and remember with honour our heroes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Sonovabich Posted November 1, 2010 Member ID: 82 Group: ** Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 1534 Topics Per Day: 0.29 Content Count: 5020 Content Per Day: 0.94 Reputation: 5171 Achievement Points: 131490 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 116 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 1 hour ago Device: Windows Share Posted November 1, 2010 So when France surrendered in June 1940, it must have just been part of the masterplan to fool the Germans then, cmon Milky read the history for yourself, i really can't believe people don't know about ww2 the biggest most devastating conflict the planet has ever seen, but the younger people in our country are the same too, they ain't got a clue, and that brings me back to my first comment about Hollywood's version of the war Milky, Britain (and it's commonwealth partners) and France went to war together against Germany in September 1939. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GorillaXI Posted November 1, 2010 Member ID: 62 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 73 Topic Count: 480 Topics Per Day: 0.09 Content Count: 4124 Content Per Day: 0.77 Reputation: 1413 Achievement Points: 27905 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 10 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: July 4, 2015 Birthday: 06/16/1972 Share Posted November 1, 2010 World War II in Britain In late 1938, Britain attempted to appease Germany and avoid another world war by signing the Munich Pact. This gave Germany "permission" to invade the contested Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia. When Hitler invaded the rest of Czechoslovakia a few months later, it was clear that this attempt at appeasement did not work. In March 1939, Britain announced that it would support Poland if Germany invaded it. Germany invaded anyway. (In secret, Hitler and Stalin had signed an agreement dividing up Poland between the two powers.) On September 3, 1939, Britain declared war on Germany. This marks the beginning of World War II in Europe. In May 1940, Britain got a more aggressive war-time leader -- Winston Churchill replaced Neville Chamberlain as Prime Minister. That same month, on May 26, 1940, in the face of a large-scale German offensive, British troops on the continent were forced into one of the largest evacuations in history -- the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk on the Belgian coast. From July to October 1940, the English people suffered under the Battle of Britain: intense German bombing. But the Royal Air Force valiantly defended its homeland from the German Luftwaffe, and the Nazis were unable to crush British morale. In March 1941, the U.S. began giving direct support to the British in the form of arms and ammunition through the Lend-Lease Act. After Pearl Harbor, in December, America would become directly involved in aiding the British in Europe. In January 1942, Roosevelt and Churchill agreed to establish a Combined Chiefs of Staff and to the make defeating Germany their first priority. (Winning the war in Europe would come before winning the war in the Pacific.) After three more long years, the Allies did win the war in Europe. Germany surrendered unconditionally on May 7, 1945. All told, Great Britain lost over 300,000 fighting men and over 60,000 civilians in World War II. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonovabich Posted November 1, 2010 Member ID: 82 Group: ** Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 1534 Topics Per Day: 0.29 Content Count: 5020 Content Per Day: 0.94 Reputation: 5171 Achievement Points: 131490 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 116 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 1 hour ago Device: Windows Share Posted November 1, 2010 In hindsight WW2 was over for the germans when they invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 no way back for them after that, as Napoleon found out 140 years earlier,would'nt have mattered if the Brits Yanks or French were in it or not the Russians would have still beat them on their own and instead of speaking German as was suggested earlier we would have been speaking Russian instead. Da or Niet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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