@Gargantua:

In any war, you don’t want to put your opponents back to the wall, his life at risk.  You want him to surrender, and take the “easy” path, where he can go on being worriless and cared for in a POW camp, that has far better luxuries then he is currently accomodated with.

LOL!! Try telling that to a Imperial Japanesse soilder in WWII!  :lol:

War, for the troops who are actually doing the fighting, is not about killing, but rather about surviving today and seeing tomarrow. All soldiers want peace. and Christmas day is the day that christians celibate the birth of the Prince of Peace. :-)

Yeah, but big guns are really cool, just like big trucks!

If Japan didn’t bomb us, then we would’ve still got in to the war, just alittle later. Hitler wasn’t going to let us just sit around being nutral the whole time.

66th Aniversry of the Libertor!!  :mrgreen:

Excilent plane indeed.

LMAO at Keanu

@frimmel:

Agreed. It is sometimes like he can’t remember what it is he wants to tell us. Or he has so much to tell he forgets not to say it all at once. I like that it is taken a lot from the common soldier’s experience but Ambrose does get off track frequently and a little too mired in the details.

Although that can be good too. In D-Day when he talked about all the stuff the guys carried I felt weighted down with equipment.

He’s still quite readable.  I just feel like Cornelius Ryan beat him to the punch and did a much better job.  Ambrose certainly goes for the empathy angle.

@frimmel:

@tcnance:

the war of the rats is a good book, made a movie out of it  cant remember the name but it is based on the german-russian front. it centers on 2 dueling snipers in stalingrad

Enemy at The Gates?

Exactly what I was thinking.

yea, like I’ve got 1,100 bucks…not including the bbs and batteries, ect.

http://www.wwiiguns.com/index.php

They got all kinds of awsome stuff here, airsoft and even those cap firing. Basicaly there mock shells with a cap on each one, when fired, it gives off smoke, flying catrages, and looks real. But still too expensive for me…that is if someone wanted to loan some money over  :wink:

I  watched it on PBS, They repeated it today starting at pearl habor.

Awsome show.

I’ll put that book on my Christmas wish list, thanks Flashman.

I played WaW once. Didn’t like it much. But I’ll give it another try if you think it is worth it.
  What do you like about it?
  Crazy Ivan

yeah,he bombed to german ships confiscated from WW1…one was a battleship one a battle cruiser i think.

The history and evolution of words is always interesting.

:-o
  Barbarossa was started too late to get the job done by the onset of winter, but they had to wait for the rains to let up and the dirt roads to dry out anyway. that pretty well covers the "too damned BIG " part of the problem.
  :roll:

PACIFIC 42

uk1-
1sub>  sz45( both subs) submerge)
1destroyer> sz59 wol
noncombat:
1 trn > sz 40 pickup newzealand and drop off in australlia
1 fig india sz > india
1ac, 1trn, india sz> egy sz

j1-  1 fac to manchuria
battle of midway(sz 52)-
1 bb, 1 ac, 1 sub, 2 fig( 1 sz 50, 1 sz37) > vs. 1 sub, 1 ac, 1fig ( retreats with 1 bb, 1 us ac still alive)
batttle of the coral sea
1 ac > sz 46(empty)
1fig sz 37> sz 40  vs. 1 trn (no survivors)
1 destroyer sz 50 > sz 45 (sinks sub)
china campgian
1bb > sz 59 wol
3inf( 1 man, 2 kwantwang), 3 fig, 1bmb > china cleared with 3 fig 1 bmb.

us1- buys, 1 factroy for sinkiang,
1bb, 1 trn( 2inf), 1 ac, 1 fig > sz 45 wol
2 inf( sz 45), 1 fig hawaii> sol islands wol.

the russian one was incrediable moslty the artillery barrage in the beginning was incrediable.

I understand, Life happens every single second…

Wow, this one is even better than the civil war one.  Nice find Jermo!

I learned that lesson the hard way.  :-P

@yamamato456:

Well actually the battle of britain itself was not necassarily a German mistake.  The way the battle of britain was fought was a mistake.  In the beginning of the battle the Germans were smart to only target the British airforce.  However, the air battle was lasting longer than Hitler wanted… so he decided he would bomb London instead.  All of the german generals thought this was a huge mistake and wanted to keep attacking the airforce.  In fact on the day that they started targetting london there were only 14 operational planes in the whole UK.  If the German generals would have had their way the Germans would have won the battle of britain.

Even assuming Germany “wins” the air war, they never win the battle of Britain. Britain never gets successfully invaded, Germany just doesnt have the operational power to do so.

The mistake was in attacking Britain, rather than the Med. Taking Egypt (and gaining access to Iran/Iraq oil) and depriving UK of supplies was the only way to “win” (which eventually would not have worked as the USA would eventually enter the war and supply Britain with whatever was needed).

Had the med been conquered and become an axis lake, you could delay Torch till 44. Perhaps egypt is never retaken until 45. Which would give Germany time to mass produce its "super-weapons). This also assumes the blunders on the eastern front are also ignored.

Squirecam