What was your favorite WWII battle of all time? Mine would have to be against Poland, when we wipped them, no offense to anyone who is Polish, it's just my favorite battle.
Wow, things have gone off topic since I last checked my thread. I'am just wondering, but who is this lady you fellows were talking about, and how she cursses?
I'd like to bring up some of the horrors that the Japanese would do during the war.
In the war, the Japanese soldiers would enter a Chinese village and kill pregnant woman, and then they would have a bet on the sex of the fetus, then with their samuri swords, they would cut the pregnant woman's abdomen, and the fetus would fall out, and the money would go to the person who guessed the sex of the fetus right.
Now that is taking things too far isn't it chaps? Honestly, I'am glad that the Americans dropped an atom bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese deserved it.
I think every country is so in love with themselves and so ignorant of other people that it comes to the point where one country doesn't see another nations people as equals and therefore believes its fine to torture, degrade, and carelessly murder them. I think when people experience diversity and actually meet and talk to foreigners, and others from other countries they realize that these other people have some differences, but they are just like me, they worry about similar things, they enjoy similar things, and hey they're not that bad. If people isolate themselves and are ignorant and oblivious to the rest of the world, this can cause problems such as the disrepect that has happened in most previous conflicts.
Gold star for Flipski, what he just said, is true. How many of you out there would rather discriminate someone just because they are a foreigner? Also, how many of you would help them if they by chance were having trouble crossing a street?
This is off topic, but it needs to be out in the air, where people will see it, and act accordingly when they meet foreigners.
Alright, off this subject now, what were some more controversial battles of WWII? I know that there are plenty more out there that people haven't said yet.
The order during the Battle of Britain to shoot down the Seenotdienst (planes equipped to pick up pilots who had gone down in the channel) by Churchill and the War Cabinet was pretty controversial If I remember my history properly. Disgraceful order in my opinion we might as well started taking pot shots at the Red Cross, then again all fair in love and war and all that so it wsa probanly justified.
Your history is exact, the Britains in WWI after the blimps went down, they would leave the pilots to rot if they died, or they would shoot them on the spot. They would never help them at all, since they dropped incinidary bombs from their blimps.
I bascially pefer looking at the eastern front, the Germans, out numbered hopelessly, almost acheived somthing that was thought to be impossible. They good see the Kermlin with Binoculars and telescopes they were so close. Hitler made a lot of bad moves and mistakes. The seige of Stalingrad and Leningrad, the attack on Kursk, and the change in plans for the capture of Moscow.
Most controversial was probably two battles rather than one, the seige of Stalingrad and the battle of Kursk. It is argueable which was the most important. In Stalingrad, Hitler's 300,00 elite troops were nearly wiped out completelty, not to mention a large portion of the 2 million men he sent to support the seige. And Kursk was a huge lost for the German fight to supress the Soviet T-34, one million Russian over whelmed a half-a-million Germans and destroyed most of their best tanks.
Over all, Kursk and Stalingrad were the two last major efforts the germans ever made to conquer the Soviet Union. It was all about defending cities with soldiers from 14-65 and with citizens who weren't well trained from that point untile the end of the war.
I'am glad that Kursk came up again, and it's true, it was a slaughter of Germans. The T-34's are by far, one of the best tanks period, and after them are Tigers (German tanks, only about a 1,000 were produced during the course of the war) and when they have double the tanks you have, you have to either be very lucky, or get slaughtered and loose quite a few tanks.
Also, the siege of Stalingrand was by far, a downright dumb decision. Germany could have taken over all of Eastern and Western Europe, and utterly destroyed the British, but they decided to break the Treaty of Versailles. Which was a pact between the Soviet Union and Germany, stating that they would never attack each other, but Germany did, and it ended with the Soviets defeating the Germans.
Battle of the Bulge was Hitler's last gamble, and it dearly affected him, he lost quite a few troops, in a hope that they would beat the advancing American army.
I agree with Fritz T-34/-85 were the best tanks in WW2. It was massively produced, rumors say that once a t-34/-85 was produced they immediatley go to the battle field, they were also the first tank to be produced with slope armor, so if a German tank tries to fire at one of the sides of a t-34/-85 tank they would ricashey of to the side of the tank, and there were a number of occasions where a t-34/85 would not even try to fire at a Tiger tank, but would instead drive right to it. The t-34/85 was also very good at mobility over 30mph. The firepower was stong, but not as much power as the Tiger tank still good firepower though. So yeah the t-34 tank was the most feared tank in the world.
Stalingrad or the lightning wars onto poland, and all those other small countries that lost nearly as soon as they were attacked (because of brilliant strategy which is the reason the lightning wars were my favourite).
