Part of the problem that the US Navy ran into when it went to war was that – like many military forces before or since – it had to learn some things for itself before it believed them. The British had over two years of experience fighting the Battle of the Atlantic at that point, but the Americans didn’t feel that they needed any advice from them on the matter. It didn’t help that Admiral Ernest J. King was an Anglophobe, in addition to having a generally abrasive personality. (His wife reputedly once said: “Ernie is the most even-tempered man I’ve ever met. He’s always in a foul mood.”) As a result, the Americans made mistakes in their early ASW methods of operations which could have been avoided. In fairness, the US Army had similar learning-curve problems in North Africa, notably at Kasserine Pass if I remember correctly.
You May Be A WWII Junkie
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You may be a WW2 Junkie if when playing other war games like Battlefront Heroes on facebook you notice the level 1 tanks look like Panzer IIs, the level 2 tanks look like Panzer IIIs, looking at tanks other people have you see Tiger Is
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If you were watching Discovery Channel’s Wings and Field of Armor instead of Saturday morning cartoons as a teen, you may be a WW2 junkie.
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@ABWorsham:
If you were watching Discovery Channel’s Wings and Field of Armor instead of Saturday morning cartoons as a teen, you may be a WW2 junkie.
I’ll 2nd that.
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If you grew up watching Jonh Wayne movies
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If mash potatoes generally cause you to think of potato smasher grenades, you may be a WWII junkie. Just happened to me in the kitchen 8-)
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@ABWorsham:
If mash potatoes generally cause you to think of potato smasher grenades, you may be a WWII junkie. Just happened to me in the kitchen 8-)
Lol now that’s bad…
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Lol ><
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You may be a junkie if your vanity plates on your car are 1181942.
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My son had some Axis and Allies submarines out on table next to his tablet. I told him, your tablet makes a great U-boat pen.
That makes you a WW2 junkie.
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If you see the headline of the article linked below and immediately wonder why they stuck an “s” on the end of Sir Arthur’s nickname, you might be a WWII junkie:
https://winnipegsun.com/sports/football/bombers-harris-earns-star-of-the-week
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LOL !
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If you actually know what the War of 1941 is.
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@Caesar-Seriona said in You May Be A WWII Junkie:
If you actually know what the War of 1941 is.
And if you know that there were two of them: the Russian one and the American one.
Also, if you know in which country you can (supposedly) find a few small commemorative monuments to the war of “1939-1940”.
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If you recognize someone as looking like Albert Kesselring in a drive thru, you might be a WW2 junkie.
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