@RJL518:

i sometimes wonder what would have happened if Germany had put together a massive battle fleet in the Atlantic like Japan did in the Pacific

They  didn’t have the naval knowhow that Japan and US had. The Germans had plans for building carrier vessels, but they weren’t able to do it.

But if they had done it, it would be much easier to knock out UK pretty early, and then Barbarossa also would be easier, but far from guaranteed.

Hi, just want to share this nice music with all of ya.

If you like soft metal, you will like it for sure.

It’s call Sabaton, try it on youtube. Their musics is based on history and the majority of their songs is about world war 2. I like to listen to them when playing axis and allies. Very nice music

Try panzerkampf, stalingrad, rise of evil or ghost divison.

And for the series, for those who speak french, like me :-D, there is a wonderfull serie called Apocalypse. For now it’s only in french but this is by far the most exciting world war 2 serie iv’e ever seen. It’s about the world war 2 with old videos and a narrator. They are now in color…nice songs…very good…take a look if you can find your way out, some videos from the serie are available.

Good game

http://apocalypse-la-serie.tv5.ca/

@Fishmoto37:

My favorite–They Were Expendable with Robert Montgomery and John Wayne. Has been since I was a kid and when I was a kid the Dead Sea was only sick.

Great Movie!

The Poles fought very bravely twice in II. WW…both times cheated and beat by Russians and Germans… :cry:

In your opinions…were the British justified in boarding the Altmark while it was in Norway’s waters?
Did they violate the Neutrality of Norway before they were invaded by Hitler?  Was there any other way of rescuing the British prisoners held in the Altmark?

Looking fwd to your answers…

@Sergente:

In october 1942, the italo-german army in North Africa were defeated by the british 8th army in the Second Battle of El-Alamein. Here’s an italian movie (with english subtitles) dated 2002 about the men who fought that battle by the wrong side.

Part 1/11: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzyPMTAfQ1A&feature=related
Part 2/11: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOhzMZc567U&feature=related
Part 3/11: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJmvYSVse5I&feature=related
Part 4/11: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrsq_8Brplw&feature=related
Part 5/11: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMGqnEQIm1c&feature=related
Part 6/11: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IesGvfVE9dE&feature=related
Part 7/11: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMt9XPnRChA&feature=related
Part 8/11: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMDaadoj–E&feature=related
Part 9/11: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYe9WPD2Guc&feature=related
Part 10/11: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRPdEQMzUpo&feature=related
Part 11/11: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjnQUaSjMAo&feature=related

Good flick.

@RogertheShrubber:

Whatever the real stats are between the Finns and Soviets, it takes nothing away from the impressive victory between two Finnish divisions (11,000) and elements of the Soviet 9th army (45,000).

youre right about that Roger…a lot of people dont realize that this was actually a PIVOTAL battle very early in World War II…bcuz the Finns held out in this battle…it prevented Russia from winning the Winter War at that time…

i agree…Stalin would have LOVED this outcome…

There are many good books on the ordeal of Black Americans in WW2…amazing what they had to go through in the armed forces and most of the time they were the fiercest fighters around…

of course i forgot about Ray Spruance…the true hero of Midway and one of the best Admirals of the war

didnt see much action in the war cuz it was almost over…but the B36 Peacemaker was one BIG sucker!!!

still amazing how the Finns held off such large numbers of soviet troops with those ski battalions of theirs

The Allies would have lost. Hitler’s turning on Russia at the time and place he did was one of the biggest reasons his thousand year Reich failed when it did. I am sure most people on these forums have tried out the USSR neutral scenario. Just with them neutral the game becomes much more difficult.

FDR was playing for time prior to Pearl Harbor. He had already comment the US to a virtual state of war in the Atlantic and had sent Pacific naval units over to the Atlantic already. Maybe the atom bomb could have still shifted the balance. But the allies weren’t the only ones working on technology. Conflict with Japan was coming, their preemptive strike on Pearl Harbor brought the USA in too early.

Patton is one of the most interesting characters in WW2.

First of all look at how the Germans feared him. They were terrified of the man. Secondly a good many of Patton’s strategic and tactical viewpoints came to pass about both the 2nd World War and the Cold War. The man also had a sense of justice. He forced German civilians that tried to ignore the existence of the concentration camps to walk through the horrors there. As a tactician and commander I doubt we had anyone better than Patton.

The man had his faults certainly. The two incidents of slapping a soldier (he discharged a firearm in at least one of those, not sure about the second), he always seemed to have trouble managing his supply lines, and he always had trouble keeping his opinions quiet. He blundered severely sending troops to liberate a POW camp that happened to have his son in law as a prisoner. Patton never believed in shell shock, “battle fatigue”.

I really enjoyed Rick Atkinson’s first two books (Army at Dawn and Day of Battle). Patton is a major player in Army At Dawn (focused on North Africa). In the second book Patton is involved briefly but you learn many of his predictions about the fight in Italy prove to be correct. I look forward to third which focuses from D-day to the end of the war. I was disappointed in the amount of time Jeff Shaara devoted to Patton in “No Less Than Victory”. True a wealth of information is already recorded about Patton but writing any WW@ novel without Patton would be like writing about the Shenandoah Valley without mentioning Stonewall Jackson.

I believe that some authors portray Patton with a bias and marginalize Patton (most notably alternative writer Harry Turtledove). Part of this is because Patton offers so much stuff to criticize in his character. Part of it also comes from the fact it is popular to criticize anyone that could be considered conservative today.

I’m sure there is some good stuff buried in the archives in this forum.

Maybe said before, but I am too lazy to read all posts.

When D-Day happened the war was already over. As a Dutch man I still am very glad it happened, otherwise the Netherlands, Belgium and France would have the same fate as Hungary or Poland.

I voted battle of Britain. No staging ground for US troops. No Atlantik Wall. Way less soldiers needed to protect the coast. But most importantly: MORALE! The boost to Germans, all resistance movements in France and other countries would have lowest morale possible, Russians fight alone, US not so eager to join the war, less British troops against Japan (or none at all, peace?) etc.

And it is a big difference if those German ships are new (build in 1939, or something), because a lot of British ships were older then that.

I looked through that earlier, it’s not too bad. Still need to find out the ratio of tanks and planes per country, and also how the numbers per nationality altered in the weeks that followed.

I like them all actually…each theater of war had its own atmosphere…

The Eastern Front:  Genocide on a grand scale…the greatest tank battles of the war (KURSK, KHARKOV)  and Operation Barbarossa…the ultimate attack plan…and of course Stalingrad…the ultimate turning point of the war

The Western Front: From the greatest evacuation in history (Dunkirk) to the greatest invasion in history (Normandy) to the greatest gamble in history (Bulge)…nothing like fighting on the Western Front

The North African Front:  Nothing like watching a Desert Fox claim victory wherever he went…ultimate battles such as Tobruk, Kasserine Pass, and El Alamein…and how British General Montgomery finally showed his brilliance…

The Mediterranean Front:  The drive under Europe’s soft underbelly…Sicilly, Salerno, Anzio…the great Italian Campaign and the word PATTON becomes a household name…

The Battle of the Atlantic:  U-boats, BISMARCK, SCHARNHORST, Convoy PQ-17, Operation Torch…need i say more?

The Pacific Theater:  Pearl Harbor, Midway, the Solomons, Leyte, to name a few basically the greatest naval war in history…

The China-Burma-India Theater:  The Burma road must stay open…the Flying Tigers and China’s plight against the Japanese…the most intense fighting in the Pacific War

I know u only wanted a favorite,but where to choose…

BTW…LETS GIVE OUR THANKS TO THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO FOUGHT AND GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THESE THEATERS OF WAR…FOR WITHOUT THEM…WE WOULDN’T BE ABLE TO CHOOSE OUR FAVORITES

I agree with you guys…the German Tiger tank i agree was the best all around tank in the war…