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re: Biggest misconception of WW 2 was?
Posted on 3/1/17 at 10:07 pm to Keltic Tiger
Posted on 3/1/17 at 10:07 pm to Keltic Tiger
That's close but I think the story is that the landing commander (or something to the effect of whoever was in charge of anything that landed on that beach) refused to build the special dock and therefore forced MacArthur to land in that way bc as you said, he could not be overruled
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Posted on 3/1/17 at 10:50 pm to sms151t
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Biggest misconception of WW 2 was?
A) We won the war
Once the Germans attacked Russia they never had less than 60% of their forces on that front. Hitler was an idiot but thank god for Stalingrad and Kursk or we all might be speaking German today.
B) Oil was the biggest reason for the war
Germany and Japan had no oil in their countries and Britian had locked down the Middle East in WWI by recognizing the beudoins as rulers so they could get the oil. Folks forget one of the earliest fronts of the war was in Afrika and nothing down there but sand and oil. The sand was damned sure not worth fighting for.
Posted on 3/1/17 at 10:54 pm to TutHillTiger
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blitzcraig
Some dude name craig got blitzed?
The word is Blitzkrieg
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It was actually crystal meth.
Close, but crystal meth is modern. The actual drug was cocaine. Of course back in the day you could wander down to the corner market for a bottle of Coke that actually had cocaine in it at the time.
Posted on 3/2/17 at 9:28 am to sms151t
I posted this in another thread on the OT a few months ago.
Without the Battle of the Atlantic and our constant supplying of Russia via convoys none of this happens.
Ignorant WWII guy: "USA WON THE WAR FOR THE ALLIES"
Semi knowledgable WWII guy: "No you dummy, the Russians were responsible for the victory"
Actuality: The war was won due to the combined efforts and any removal of the Brits, Americans, or Russians would have resulted in a prolonged war with an eventual Allied victory. Russia wasn't doing shite without our supplies coming across the Atlantic though.
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The truth is basically the other way around, Russia did way more damage to Hitler than all the other Allies combined, Hitler was close to defeat by the time Dday happened.
Without the Battle of the Atlantic and our constant supplying of Russia via convoys none of this happens.
Ignorant WWII guy: "USA WON THE WAR FOR THE ALLIES"
Semi knowledgable WWII guy: "No you dummy, the Russians were responsible for the victory"
Actuality: The war was won due to the combined efforts and any removal of the Brits, Americans, or Russians would have resulted in a prolonged war with an eventual Allied victory. Russia wasn't doing shite without our supplies coming across the Atlantic though.
Posted on 3/2/17 at 4:45 pm to SCLibertarian
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The bulk of American fighting was done on the Pacific front and not in Europe.
I don't believe you.
Posted on 3/2/17 at 6:57 pm to Reservoir dawg
Anyone watch the movie on netflix about Hitler being sent to the future and "having to deal with the youtube generation"? I watched the first 15 minutes of it but it's in german and I was doing two things at once so I couldn't read it. Looked like it had potential.
Posted on 3/2/17 at 9:54 pm to Cheese Grits
No it was not. It's early form of meth. There is a whole hour long special on this. We first discovered it on down German Pilots in Battle of Britain. [link=(?https://usat.ly/1iOJMYd via @USATODAY?)]LINK[/link]
Posted on 3/3/17 at 8:49 am to TutHillTiger
Good old pilot's salt (Pervitin).
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Over 35 million tablets were shipped to Wehrmacht soldiers in 1940.
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Posted on 3/3/17 at 9:09 am to sms151t
That Russia almost single-handedly won the war. I always hear people tout Russian endurance and perserverance but none of it would have been possible if Germany had not been occupied with the Western Front.
You can see almost a direct correlation to American intervention (Russia had only one major victory on their homefront beforehand, and many others after) and Russian victories.
You can see almost a direct correlation to American intervention (Russia had only one major victory on their homefront beforehand, and many others after) and Russian victories.
Posted on 3/3/17 at 2:33 pm to TutHillTiger
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It was Crystal Meth not Cocaine as the person above you mentioned. I wanted to see what you came up with first to back your claim up before I responded to it. They also used amphetamines like we use now to treat ADHD to raise awareness.
It was Crystal Meth not Cocaine as the person above you mentioned. I wanted to see what you came up with first to back your claim up before I responded to it. They also used amphetamines like we use now to treat ADHD to raise awareness.
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Posted on 3/4/17 at 4:45 am to sms151t
That there were any real "good guys" in the war. Yes, the Germans and Japanese were clearly the aggressors, and yes, the Holocaust and Unit 731 cast a harsh light on both of those countries' actions during the war, but we can't pretend like our own hands weren't awfully dirty too. The use of indiscriminate massed air attacks against civilian targets is a pretty horrific way to fight a war. The idea, development, and realized capability of laying waste to entire countries by atomic weaponry was an outgrowth of Allied war methods, not Axis.
Posted on 3/4/17 at 11:23 am to TheTideMustRoll
There were good guys on both sides, but u are right about no side being good guys.
In my hometown there was a German guy I didn't know was in the war. I used to cut his grass one Summer.
He told me his story one day. He was stationed in Africa and served under Rommel and he a few soliders ended up being responsible for some American prisoners and as he tells it they were forgotten about after the series of battles etc. they got to be good friends with the Americans, playing cards etc for rest of the war. ( they never got orders etc) they become such good friends that at the end of war the Americans soldiers helped them settle in America and sponsored them and they raised their families together etc and remained friends until I guess they died.
He gave me a gold 1939 buliva watch at end of the summer as an early graduation present. He was a really nice guy.
In my hometown there was a German guy I didn't know was in the war. I used to cut his grass one Summer.
He told me his story one day. He was stationed in Africa and served under Rommel and he a few soliders ended up being responsible for some American prisoners and as he tells it they were forgotten about after the series of battles etc. they got to be good friends with the Americans, playing cards etc for rest of the war. ( they never got orders etc) they become such good friends that at the end of war the Americans soldiers helped them settle in America and sponsored them and they raised their families together etc and remained friends until I guess they died.
He gave me a gold 1939 buliva watch at end of the summer as an early graduation present. He was a really nice guy.
Posted on 3/7/17 at 10:20 am to sms151t
That it was all about ending slavery
Posted on 3/7/17 at 11:26 am to sms151t
That hitler killed himself. He escaped on a sub to Antarctica where Nazis had a secret base that experimented in anti gravity planes.
Also there was never a holocaust. It's pure propaganda that was created by the Zionists and globalist to squash any potential future nationalist uprisings in order to maintain control and further the new world order agenda
Also there was never a holocaust. It's pure propaganda that was created by the Zionists and globalist to squash any potential future nationalist uprisings in order to maintain control and further the new world order agenda
Posted on 3/7/17 at 12:22 pm to TheTideMustRoll
There absolutely were good guys. The US and British had faults but the generosity shown by the victors, other than the commies, was unprecedented. In the throes of world war we definitely engaged in brutal tactics but it wasn't a pillow fight and the the brutality of the Japanese, Germans and Reds faaaar exceeded our own.
Posted on 3/7/17 at 6:45 pm to deltaland
Someone has bought into some serious conspiracy theories
Posted on 3/10/17 at 1:21 pm to Wishnitwas1998
MacArthur was a primadonna without question, but to accuse him of being a butcher that didn't value his own troops lives is beyond absurd. He had an outstanding record of gaining ground with relatively very little loss of life. A large component of island hopping was letting large, fortified Japanese bases(Rabaul for instance) "die on the vine", without a shot fired. Bypass the enemy, and cut them off from supply.
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