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  1. Β @mariuszkowalski6472Β  I hope your grandfather managed to live his life as well as can be hoped through those tortured years in Poland Mariusz, Thank you for his service & All the best to you as well.
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  2. I wonder what William Shirer had to say about the industrial grade network of extermination camps across eastern Europe?
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  3. Luck has its part to play in ALL combatants efforts. Witness Bismarck's hit on HMS Hood.
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  4. It must always be kept in mind that 75% of the Fighter Command pilots that turned the tide of nazism in Europe during the battle of Britain were British born.
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  5. No, Britain WAS alone, that is unless you can provide us with the details of the luftwaffe air assaults on Canberra, Ottawa, Delhi and Wellington? Or how the German army stood poised to launch its invasion of the Indian sub continent or Canada? Or how the Kriegsmarine attempted to strangle the British Empire out of the war by enforcing a u-boat blockade of Australia and New Zealand? Oh news just coming in...... NONE OF THOSE THINGS HAPPENED because the ONLY nation facing ALL of those threats between July 1940 and May 1941 was the United Kingdom ALONE.
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  6. What you MEAN to say is that the British people were not entirely alone (nearly but not quite) at this early point in the war, the commonwealth was a distant mostly vocal supporter of the UK with VERY few actual troops in the British Isles. By the time of the expected invasion in Sept 1940 the British army in the UK was fielding 2 British Armoured divisions 2 British Armoured tank brigades 15 British infantry divisions (full strength) 7 British infantry divisions (under strength). 7 British independent infantry Brigades 2 British motor machine gun Brigades 1 Canadian infantry division (full strength) (plus some small under equipped subordinate units of a 2nd division) 1 NZ infantry "division" which was called the "2nd NZ Expeditionary Force" but which in reality was actually 2 understrength NZ infantry Brigades but with an attached British motor machine gun brigade. 2 Australian infantry brigades (both under strength & under equipped) In addition to these forces were the 1,500,000 million men of the British "Home Guard". As you can see, as well as being the ONLY country being threatened by nazism from July 1940 to May 1941, the defence of the UK was a +95% British affair at this early stage of the war. It was in the following years AFTER 1940 that the size of the British Commonwealth forces really started to grow.
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  7. Large battleship guns ALWAYS used to cause a degree of damage to the firing ship. Imagine what the forward NINE 16" guns of the Nelson class class did to their mother ship !!! Even smaller guns could cause damage to their own ships when firing. When the RN's heavy cruiser HMS Suffolk's fired her forward 8" guns abaft at one point during the Bismarck saga they blew in her own bridge windows leaving the captain & bridge staff to deal with dreadful North Atlantic weather until she eventually returned to port for repairs. (Mind you HMS Suffolk was lucky.... HMS Norfolk who accompanied her still had a completely OPEN BRIDGE that the Royal Navy seemed to prefer (well at least the admirals sat in their warm offices back in Whitehall seemed to prefer !!!).
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  8. Jeschonek, a self assured but ultimately weak planner who blew his own brains out when grim reality broke into his fantasy world.
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  9. Could you please provide us with the details of the luftwaffe air assaults on Canberra, Ottawa, Delhi and Wellington? Or how the Wehrmacht stood poised to launch its invasion of the Indian sub continent? Or how the Kriegsmarine attempted to strangle "the British Empire" out of the war by enforcing a u-boat blockade of Australia and New Zealand? Oh news just coming in...... NONE OF THOSE THINGS HAPPENED because the ONLY nation facing the FULL weight of the German Wehrmacht anf ALL of those threats between July 1940 and April 1941 was GREAT BRITAIN ALONE.
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  10. Do you believe the Saxons who died on Senlac Hill also died in vain? Just so modern day corporate globalists could flood the country with the brown tide?
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  11. YOU FORGOT TO MENTION HOW WHEN THE SCHARNHORST AND GNEISENAU SANK THE BRITISH AIRCRAFT CARRIER HMS GLORIOUS AND HER TWO DESTROYER ESCORTS (HMS ACASTA & ARDENT) ON 8TH JUNE 1940 THEY REFUSED TO MAKE EVEN THE MOST RUDIMENTARY EFFORT TO RENDER ASSISTANCE TO 1500 DROWNING RN SAILORS, AND INSTEAD SAILED OFF LEAVING THEM ALL TO DROWN. THE RN HAD EVERY RIGHT TO ABANDON THE RESCUE OF BISMARCK SURVIVORS, SEEING AS THE NAZIS HAD DIRECTED U-BOATS TO THE AREA OF BISMARCK'S FINAL BATTLE. WHOOPS LOOKS LIKE MY "CAPS LOCK" BUTTON HAS STUCK. (No need to thank me for ridding you of your absolute cluelessness).
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  12. Take a tip... if in doubt, don't comment... the chances are you'll sound REALLY stupid.
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  13. Poor British? We won in BOTH cases !!!
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  14. They needed those assets to COVER the vastness of the North Atlantic Ocean... all 41,000,000 sq miles of it, at a time when satellites and GPS were stories in science fiction books, radar was in its infancy and large areas of the oceans were not covered by aerial reconnaisance. Once stopped from running away from action, Bismarck was dispatched by just 2 battleships and cruisers.
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  15. Β @MotosAndMachinesΒ  BRITAIN ALONE was being assaulted by the might of the Luftwaffe in the summer of 1940. Canada as a commonwealth country supplied men and goods to support her, the US did almost utterly NOTHING without being paid. Don't try and portray it any other way. That is all fact.
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  16. Prinz Oyghen
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  17. Stress fractures caused by poorly designed hatch openings to the ships holds caused a fair percentage of the early liberty ships to break in two
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  18. "Luftwaffe itself lost far more planes" (AND aircrew..... don't forget the more important aircrew they they kindly donated to our PoW camp jamboree)
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  19. I thought I'd create a simple "visual aid" in order to assist people learning about the history of the battle of Britain. There is much ongoing debate about the nationalities and proportions of RAF fighter pilots who took part in the battle, with a furtive aspect which attempts to portray the battle as a victory of mostly "Foreign pilots". Below is an accurate graphical representation of the proportion of pilot nationalities serving within RAF Fighter Command during the summer of 1940. Each flag is roughly equivalent to 30 pilots. πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§UK (2342) πŸ‡΅πŸ‡±πŸ‡΅πŸ‡±πŸ‡΅πŸ‡±πŸ‡΅πŸ‡±πŸ‡΅πŸ‡± Poland (145) πŸ‡³πŸ‡ΏπŸ‡³πŸ‡ΏπŸ‡³πŸ‡ΏπŸ‡³πŸ‡Ώ New Zealand (127) πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ Canada (112) πŸ‡¨πŸ‡ΏπŸ‡¨πŸ‡ΏπŸ‡¨πŸ‡Ώ Czechoslovakia (88) πŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ί Australia (32) πŸ‡§πŸ‡ͺ Belgium (28) πŸ‡ΏπŸ‡¦ S. Africa (25) (1940 flag emoji not available) πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡³ Other nations (France (13), R o Ireland (10), USA (9), Rhodesia (3), Newfoundland (1), Jamaica (1), Barbados (1)) (And just to preempt the idiot lefty "Identity warriors" from protesting about "The lack of credit given to the black pilots who fought in the battle of Britain"... the two pilots from the Caribbean were both of white British descent).
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  20. "mental health outcome" BS didn't exist in them days. You got on with it.
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  21. Yes and 303's highest scoring pilot (indeed he achieved a full 30% of 303's confired kills) was CZECHSLOVAKIAN pilot Josef FrantiΕ‘ek. Credit where credits due !!!
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  22. Stop watching on your phone or TV and get a PC (or if you're that way inclined a mac) install an adblocker, and use the internet as it was originally intended to be used.
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  23. I see Andrew the troll is enjoying a supervised trip out from the secure mental unit again.
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  24. Β @Charlesputnam-bn9zyΒ  The VERY FIRST civilian terror bombing. Carried out by Germany on the 16th August 1914, when zeppelins bombed Liege in Belgium. They just LOVE dropping the stuff on others, but can't take it when it comes to visit them !!!!
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  25. No... it actively ENCOURAGES them while simultaneously assuring the public it's doing all it can to halt the flood.
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  26. They could always have stayed in Poland if they liked?
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  27. Β @Warriorking.1963Β  Not with an ad-blocker install... just uninterrupted viewing pleasure for me.
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  28. I remember back in the 1970s when walking through the city centre where I lived seeing lots of downtrodden middle and old aged men wearing "sandwich boards" proclaiming the "second coming"... "armageddon"..... and so such. It's another "blessing of the internet" that we can now be exposed to the same level of nonsense in the comfort of our own home.
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  29. Please provide us with the details of the luftwaffe air assaults on Canberra, Ottawa, Delhi and Wellington? Or how the Wehrmacht stood poised to launch its invasion of the Indian sub continent or Canada? Or how the Kriegsmarine attempted to strangle the British Empire out of the war by enforcing a u-boat blockade of Australia and New Zealand? Oh news just coming in...... NONE OF THOSE THINGS HAPPENED because the ONLY nation facing ALL of those threats between July 1940 and April 1941 was GREAT BRITAIN ALONE. P.S Ignore Mark... he lives in a parallel universe where the murderous nazis are the good guys.
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  30. Well done !!! Looks like you've learned some English words, your next task is to put them in some order that actually constructs a sentence !!!
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  31. If you're going to troll, make it a good one.
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  32. Please tell us more Carlos !!!
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  33. Dear oh dear... WRONG !!! Top RAF Fighter Command "kill tallies" during the battle of Britain. Flt Lt Eric Stanley Lock (English) - 21.5 confirmed kills. Sgt James Harry Lacey (English) - 18 confirmed kills. Flt Lt Archie Ashmore McKellar (Scottish) - 17.5 confirmed kills. Sgt Josef FrantiΕ‘ek (Czechoslovakian) - 17 confirmed kills. Pilot Off Colin Falkland Gray (New Zealand) - 15.5 confirmed kills. Flt Lt Witold Urbanowicz (Poland) - 15 confirmed kills.
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  34. Lancasters weren't in service at this point, and it was the world's then largest navy that the German invasion fleet with it's tiny escort would have had to contend with.
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  35. The standard of some of the postings in this thread is really rather good. Well done.
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  36. Maybe, just maybe, they're completely happy within their own skin. Who knows how YOU will look if you're lucky enough to reach old age.... quite possibly with a completely changed outlook on life, with enormous eyebrows, two small hedgerows growing out of your ears and 2 "shaving brushes" sticking out of your nostrils as well !!! hair stops growing where you want it to, and starts growing where its never grown before!!!
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  37. Tirpitz's capt Karl Topp informed the German naval high command that Tirpitz's crew were not trained well enough for the ship to be considered "combat ready" (Tirpitz eventually became operational in January 1942), but the OKM had already decided that they needed a major success to stay relevant in the run up to "operation Barbarossa" and so decided to go ahead with "Exercise Rhine".
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  38. Obviously you need to weight up what you read Paul, there is a HUGE amount of mis & disinformation regarding history..... more so now than ever before.
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  39. Nothing to do with Germans marching across Europe univited then?
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  40. Possibly the greatest naval pursuit in history.... Over 2500 lives lost...... Over 100,000 tons of premium grade steel sent to the bottom of the Atlantic. And fools still debate over which pronoun to use for one of the ships. I prefer "she" as do many others. It makes not one bit of difference.
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  41. Β @aresee8208Β  Maybe you could provide us with the details of the luftwaffe air assaults on Canberra, Ottawa, Delhi and Wellington? Or how the Wehrmacht stood poised to launch its invasion of the Indian sub continent or the British west African colonies? Or how the Kriegsmarine attempted to strangle the British Empire out of the war by enforcing a u-boat blockade of Australia and New Zealand? Oh news just coming in...... NONE OF THOSE THINGS HAPPENED because the ONLY nation facing ALL of those threats between July 1940 and April 1941 was the United Kingdom ALONE. The Commonwealth was in 1940 mostly a distant vocal supporter. The defence of the UK in 1940 was maintained by 95% British troops and citizens. It was another year or so before the commonwealth contribution in Europe REALLY began to kick in.
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  42. Not in 1941 they weren't
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  43. Likewise without the Spitfire.... taking care of the fighters while the hurris' mainly took out the bombers.
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  44. Hood takes a headshot, Bismarck gets "gang raped" Which option would you take if forced?
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  45. Β @michaelidarecisΒ  ALL empires come to an end, and don't be silly enough to ever think that what fills the void left is going to be any better.
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  46. "she" is customary for 99.9% of English and German speakers. Enjoy your time in the 0.1% club.
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  47. Β @Jeremy-y1tΒ  Don;t be silly Jeremarkyjames.
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  48. Thank you for that nugget, I'm off to do some reading about that situation right now. The RCN did indeed save Britain via its sheperding of a large proportion of transatlantic shipping during WW2.
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  49. Read "War is a racket" by Smedley Butler.
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  50. Β @MarkHarrison733Β  Israel didn't exist during WW2 Mark.
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