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04-16-2004, 04:18 AM
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Originally Posted by Gemhorse When you refer to ' Britain', you should include ' & the Commonwealth '. -The contribution made by these Men of different Nations was profound , and the American ' Eagle ' Sqn. was really a tradition started in WWI , some of which I read about in 74 ' Tiger ' Sqn.'s history, which spanned both War's.- Plus the Czech , Polish , Dutch etc. Sqn.'s, ALL of who were in there ' mixing-it ' early-on , in the BoB.... | Sorry - you're right  - I'd like to thank the Commenwealth pilots too - the Canadians, Aussies, Kiwis and the European pilots too: Poles, Czechs, Dutch, French (  ) Belgian, Finns, Norweigens - sorry if i missed anyone out (i'm sure I did )
I still think we would've won it without them though 
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04-16-2004, 08:58 AM
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Originally Posted by cheddar cheese sure is 
hey do you know we own a harrier? | ah yes! (he told me people, he DOES have one! a Harrier 80 to be exact    ) | no its a harrier 48, ill post some pics here later
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04-16-2004, 01:40 PM
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#63 | | Master of Ewes
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04-16-2004, 02:43 PM
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| woo, go Nederlands! (im Dutch) sorry for the mixup | |
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04-16-2004, 03:57 PM
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| Germans...I for one am still a little confused about your heritage...are you a Dutch-Brazilian living in the USA?
where were you born?
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04-16-2004, 04:54 PM
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| born in US and my parents are Brazilian and my dads dad is Dutch but yes, i live in the us | |
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04-16-2004, 06:46 PM
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| Axis for the Ju87 and le Bf110 I love these planes
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04-16-2004, 07:04 PM
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Country: | A taste for crap then...just joking...wait, no I'm not....
__________________ "When you go home tomorrow, don't expect anyone to know what you have been through. Even if they did know, most people probably wouldn't care anyway. Some of you may get the medals you deserve, many more of you will not. But remember this, all of you are now members of the front-line club, and that is the most exclusive club in the world." - Lt. Col. Matthew Maer CO 1st Battalion, the Princess of Wale's Royal Regiment. Camp Abu Naji, Oct. 2004  To those in that club. | |
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04-17-2004, 01:24 PM
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Country:  | I wanted to thank Vigilante, for that great letter and the reply from the Brits. We are all here to talk and I hope learn a little more. The war was won with the blood of the fighting men and the sarafice of the people at home. I think that is at times forgotten.
As for national pride, yes we all have it.
I agree with The quote that America, is a lawer-breading nation that infact has more then engineers and can come up with a way to try and blame a hamberger for making people fat. well I digress. With out the help of all and the great sacrafice of the Eastern front it might have all been lost. I am not sure how long the Brits could have held out, all alone. But I am shure they would have intill the last man and woman. Hell the Queen never left!! I bet she would have stayed even underocupation 
Or maybe SAS would have sent her to Canada, that is a what if!
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04-18-2004, 01:19 PM
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Country: | the SAS was in africa during the war ( i say during, it was only formed mid-war), and even then they weren't that elete a unit.................
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04-18-2004, 01:21 PM
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04-18-2004, 03:47 PM
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Country: | 1942 they were formed and not that elite?
They did some really amazing things in the desert, and later on. June 1942, a SAS group was involved in landing on the shore of France and dismantle a Radar bringing it back to Britian (Operation Biting). They were a very good unit, and very well motivated.
Driving onto an airfield with 8 Jeeps and shooting up the planes with .30 cals, then planting bombs on them or smashing them up seems like something elite to me.
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04-19-2004, 12:40 PM
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04-19-2004, 04:10 PM
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A taste for crap then...just joking...wait, no I'm not....
| (pssst, hes french, that explains everything)
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04-19-2004, 07:00 PM
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| damn you cc! i was gonna say that (or something along the lines of it) when i was done reading the page!!! | |
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