The most important battle of WW2

Originally Posted by DerAdlerIstGelandet

Yes I think that country bashing is not nice and that goes for you too RG Lunatic in your other posts.

Where have I "bashed" any country? Cept maybe the French?

Let me tell you about the damn French. When I was about 4 years old my Dad was on assignment from the USN to train NATO pilots to use air-to-air missiles, we were based in England for about 18 months. A couple of months after Kennedy was assasinated my Dad was in France for 6 weeks training their pilots, and because it was so close, my Mom took me and my sister (a toddler) to France to visit. On multiple occasions we (my Mom, myself, and my sister) were accousted by the French, adult French, who said things like "Your Pres. Kennedy got what he deserved". All my Mom would do was say, "do you speak English, can you help me find my way to..." and they would say hateful things in response. This didn't happen once or twice, it happened repeatedly and we cut our visit short.

So maybe you can understand why I don't like the French. Never have and never will.

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Lunatic

To answer the question of this thread...

I'd say Perl Harbor. That's the day the Axis lost the war!



Lunatic

[cheddar cheese]

Where have I "bashed" any country? Cept maybe the French?

Sorry I was talking to the lanc.

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

I was just refering to posts you have made in other threads. As for the French I sort of agree with, I have had similar run ins with them.

[cheddar cheese]

I dont like France, unless youre nice and near Monaco (or preferably in it)

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

I like the French country side. I think it is a beautiful country. I just tend not to like the people. I have met some nice French but most of them I did not get along with. The best ones that I have met were the French Soldiers in Bosnia and Kosovo. They were alright from what I could tell, well the junior enlisted and junior officers that is, the higher the rank the more arrogant I found.

[the lancaster kicks ass]

that's proberly true of most armed forces..............

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

I can deffinatly say that is the way it is my Battalion, the higher up you go it becomes the "I Got Mine" people.

[the lancaster kicks ass]

which is the typical RAF image of the 30's......................

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

I always pictured the RAF as the flamboyant rich boy pilots with the thick accent who were arrogant and stuff but had the right to be that way because they would take off into the sky and risk there lives day in and day out.

Originally Posted by DerAdlerIstGelandet

I like the French country side. I think it is a beautiful country. I just tend not to like the people. I have met some nice French but most of them I did not get along with. The best ones that I have met were the French Soldiers in Bosnia and Kosovo. They were alright from what I could tell, well the junior enlisted and junior officers that is, the higher the rank the more arrogant I found.

The French are fine when you are not in France. But once you go there, they treat you like trash. When they are visiting your country, they think they are doing you some kind of favor.

I had a friend who spoke fluent French who studied there for a year. That summer he had his girlfriend and her sister and sister's boyfriend come out to France for vacation. Constantly the French would pull him a side and say "why are you with these <insult of choice" americans?".

But the true colors of the French are now exposed for all to see.

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Lunatic

Originally Posted by DerAdlerIstGelandet

I think Stalin would have made is move right around the time that the US and Enland were going to land in France. This would have been the best time for him because the Germans would concentrate there forces to stop the landings and he would not want to the allies to get too much of the land he would get to occupy.

Without the E. Front the US and Brits would not have been considering an invasion of the continent. At least not in 1944.

I don't think there is any way that Hitler would not have invaded Russia by 1942, perhaps 1943 at the latest. So Stalin would have had to strike before that point.

Had Hitler not been forced to war in 1939, the most logical thing would have been for him to strike East right off in 1941, through Poland and into Russia, and hope to appease the West while doing so. He might have claimed he was not invading Poland, just "passing through"

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Lunatic

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

The allies would not have waited though they would not have let him do that even if they were already anti communist.

[the lancaster kicks ass]

The allies would not have waited though they would not have let him do that

actually we were determined to stay out of the war as long as possible, it was only because we pleged that we would help defend belgium if they were invaded thet we came into the war....................

[MP-Willow]

Hi all when was Hitler "forced" to war in 1939?

I agree that Hitler could have waited until 1943, but he hated the Russians as much as the English, or more.

But the Eastern Front was needed think if all those Fw 190s were to come our over the West, the RAF and USAAF would have been tost

But as for the bid that Pearl Harbor was the day the Axis lost, I think not