Posts made by tloger

@RJL518:

didnt the Finns also capture a lot of tanks and guns and other materiel?

Very much indeed, from small arms, tanks, artillery to even cavalry horses. I think the more astonishing numbers is when the soviets retreated and made it back to the Soviet-Finnish border they had 1,001 dead, 1,430 wounded, 82 suffering severe frostbite, and over 2,000 missing!  This was a battle of (Finn) 11,000 men vs. (Soviet) 45,000 plus.  The use of landline communication and no radio silence was key.  The Finns new almost every detail to their operations and elemental objectives.

@ABWorsham:

@RogertheShrubber:

My picks Indy, Arz, Minn, and SD

My picks Indy, Arz, Dal and SD

Dallas vs. Minn was a tough one AB.  But i couldn’t decide so I went with the home team, but the 'Boys are playing phenominal ball right now.  I will not be surprised at all if Dallas wins today.

My picks Indy, Arz, Minn, and SD

I concur with Uncle Joe, I use Kiangsu J1.  I like to get an influx of some ground units asap.

Not effectively using radio silence doomed the Soviet command.  The Finns received the Soviet plans through the Raate road over clear radio transmissions the Soviets were sending each other between Dukhanov (Commander of 9th Army) and Vinogradov (Commander of th 44th).  Dukhanov sent Vinogradov’s 44th to link with the 163rd.  The Finns well informed of the link up encircled the two divisions on the road and steadily destroyed them.  The Divisions were strung along 8 Kilometers of road and were cut down piece meal in what the Finns called “motti” battles, meaning little logs of firewood.  The Finns swiftly outflanked them on ski’s along the road.  The Soviets already deprived of upper echelon leadership from purges and being ill equiped were hopelessly out foxed.  The Finns smartly destroyed their field kitchens leaving them stranded and with out any will to fight in severe winter.

Rick Atkinson writes very polished historical war narratives.  “An Army at Dawn” and “Day of Battle” are great reads.  The “Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of the Second World War” by Martin Folly is neat.  Its not your typical book, its a collection of maps in chronological order of major battles and turningpoints of the war.  Each atlas includes a concise overview and a briefing of the event.

@frimmel:

@C_Strabala:

Iowa wins the Orange Bowl!!!

@gamerman01:

What domination in the first half, especially.

Hawks Rock!

Nice job Hawks! Sending the Big Ten out of Bowl season with a winning record and 2-0 in BCS games after the Buckeyes’ Rose Bowl victory.

I partied way too hard after that victory, GO HAWKS!

My personal viewpoint is not the benchmark on determining whether a bowl game is meaningless or not, that my friend is up to you.  I personally only watch the bowls that have BigTen teams in the mix and the BCS, just my own personal areas of interests.  Whether you find all the bowl games interesting or just a select few is up to you, the world is your oyster  :-D.

I would say out of all colllegiate sports that transition to pro, the NFL has the biggest talent gap and transition from college to pro.  It amazes me how some of the most talented athletes in college never develop or become good enough to make it in the NFL.  NBA, NHL, and MLB have kids playing at age 18-20! Alot of that is based on NCAA sanctions that won’t allow football players enter till after their sophomore season, but I find it hard to believe that there is any kid 18-20 that can really step onto an NFL field and be successful without a proper college career.  I agree with you Brain, the NFL takes a special individual and the compititon is noticeably higher then in college.

Although I have always felt that the Cotton bowl should be part of the BCS since it was part of the original line of bowls games.

@Brain:

The Big 5 being the Rose,Cotton,Sugar,Orange Bowls and of course the BCS National Championship Game?

Rose, Orange, Fiesta, Sugar, and of course the BCS Champioship.

Its all in the “eye of the beholder” and in which game your own preferrred football team is playing in.  I was a football manager at Iowa when I was in school and I will go see any bowl game that they play in.  But as far as my excitement was concerned, I was more excited when we played in the Orange Bowl in 2002 then I was when we played in the Alamo Bowl in 2006.  Don’t get me wrong I enjoy all the bowl games, but I would rather see my team play in one of the “Big 5” in January then play in December, thats all.

Not meaningless, just not as interesting  :wink:

Finally, the BCS is here.

@Subotai:

FDR said that if the invasion failed, they would try again.
I thought it was a general consensus that the Normandy invasion didn’t change much for WW2, it helped make it shorter, but mostly, it prevented Stalin taking over most of Western Europe. The Normandy invasion had a bigger impact on the cold war than WW2.

Right on point

The Soviets were already advancing on the Germans before D-Day.  With their war industry tucked away into the Urals and Siberia, Germany could not effectively conduct operations to slow down these factories besides attempts at closing off Lend Lease.  The Soviets were out producing the Germans at a pretty substantial margine by now. The only change would be the Soviets beating the other allies to Berlin by a larger margin and possiblly having covered and taken more control of Germany and Berlin in its entirety.

@ABWorsham:

@RogertheShrubber:

My girldfriend got a Wii, we were playing Mario Kart all weekend.  Also I am almost done paying off my girlfriends engagement ring ($5200), my pops gave me the last 750 to pay it off.

Wow, 5200 for an engagement ring, mine cost 35 dollars, I’m not joking.

The ring was actually priced down.  She cut 400 off since I paid half up front.  Paid the rest off over the past year.  Karat and a half.  I got it back home in Iowa because taxes in Chicago are insane.

I will take head your words.  But I am not sure how I can broach the subject to her.

You must cut down the mightiest tree in the forest……WITH!..A Herring!

Lol, I will have my lawyer draw up the papers tomorrow.  :-D