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re: World War 2 still boggles my mind
Posted on 11/21/21 at 7:26 pm to Geaux Piggins Geaux
Posted on 11/21/21 at 7:26 pm to Geaux Piggins Geaux
My grandfather moved to San Diego for a better life than Mississippi could offer. My three older Aunt’s all married service men.
That how the rest of my family needed up in San Diego, CA during the war.
During WWI my grandfather fought in some battles. After he was shot and recovered he put shoes on mules. He never talked about the WWI.
During WWII all my older Aunts and grandmother did repairs on planes in San Diego. My grandfather worked on vehicles for the navy.
All they ever told me was it was rough. You had stamps for eggs and other items that were limited. My mother was sick as an infant and needed eggs. They had to end up raising their own chickesn to get her enough eggs.
That how the rest of my family needed up in San Diego, CA during the war.
During WWI my grandfather fought in some battles. After he was shot and recovered he put shoes on mules. He never talked about the WWI.
During WWII all my older Aunts and grandmother did repairs on planes in San Diego. My grandfather worked on vehicles for the navy.
All they ever told me was it was rough. You had stamps for eggs and other items that were limited. My mother was sick as an infant and needed eggs. They had to end up raising their own chickesn to get her enough eggs.
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Posted on 11/21/21 at 7:28 pm to bayoudude
Albert! I thought you were dead!
Posted on 11/21/21 at 7:43 pm to 14&Counting
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Actually a lot of those conflicts are rooted in decisions made after World War I
Yup and that war to me is even more intriguing to me than WW2.
You had a war that started off with some units still on horseback and thinking of how they would position their lancers, to young men dying by the thousands, charging thru millions of rounds of machine gun fire from their trenches.
WWI introduced killing on a scale that human kind thought was unachievable. It was more horrific of a war in my opinion, because no one expected that kind of carnage and literal generations of young men were snuffed out in the mud and misery of trench warfare.
About time WW2 came around, people expected what would happen and the war was also a war of movement, as lessons had been learned by all sides prior to WW2.
Posted on 11/21/21 at 7:45 pm to Geaux Piggins Geaux
Strange…earlier today I was at a pizza shop that had a lot of WW propaganda about the draft and bonds. I had the same thoughts. The scale and loss of life is hard to think about
Posted on 11/21/21 at 8:43 pm to OMLandshark
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To be honest I look at WWI and WWII as one massive war
A lot of the stuff involved in it went back even farther than that. The U.S. and Japan were at odds over Asia in general and China in particular since at least the days of Teddy Roosevelt (who supported Japan in the Russo-Japanese war to preserve the balance of power only to see Japan become increasingly powerful and aggressive). The German expansion went back to the days of Frederick the Great who started the transition of Prussia from a small time nation state to the German juggernaut.
Posted on 11/21/21 at 10:09 pm to Geaux Piggins Geaux
Hard to comprehend we are around the same distance away from ww2 that ww2 was away from the US civil war.
Posted on 11/21/21 at 10:44 pm to JDPndahizzy
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Wait til we see what WW3 looks like….
People have history to look at and they are still clamoring for WW3
Posted on 11/21/21 at 11:01 pm to Jim Rockford
quote:yep
Southeast Europe was a powder keg. The Austro Hungarian and Ottoman empires were on the verge of disintegrating.
quote:I remember reading up on this.
Germany wanted to be the big swinging dick and England said Nah
I forget the source (and like as not it was a lot of bias), but as I recall the Germans (this going into WW1) were actually a lot more similar to the US in economic potential and politics, and they were closing in on surpassing the fading British Empire. And while aggressively moving, they were generally winning the peace before the war.
But the Brits had the all-important shared-language factor, and their navy forced the Germans to do some shitty things that eventually swung support completely behind Britain.
It's generally understood that the Treaty of Versailles skewered the German economy so badly that it forced WW2 to happen.
Posted on 11/21/21 at 11:47 pm to Jcorye1
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If it ever comes out that the PRC engineered the virus and paid off a large portion of the world's politicians, we will see a war that could end the world
Nobody would do shite
Posted on 11/22/21 at 7:54 am to sta4ever
Invasion of the Republic of China has long been a goal of the PRC ever since that government evacuated to the Island of Formosa and several islands closer to the mainland. The close to the mainland islands were captured by the Chicoms 50+ years ago.
The Republic of China was put out on a limb by Western nations until the Chicoms entered Korean Conflict, and that is when the US sent the 7th fleet to guard the straits and signed a mutual defense pact with that government.
The Republic of China was put out on a limb by Western nations until the Chicoms entered Korean Conflict, and that is when the US sent the 7th fleet to guard the straits and signed a mutual defense pact with that government.
Posted on 11/22/21 at 9:13 am to KennabraTiger
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rigged US election
whoa!
by china?
how?
Posted on 11/22/21 at 9:18 am to CelticDog
Even when you type only 4 words, they still come out broken.
Why are you the way that you are?
Why are you the way that you are?
Posted on 11/22/21 at 9:19 am to CitizenK
Yes, it is mind boggling. I have been WWII fascinated since I was a kid. And I love collecting things from then. Trying to figure things out about the person that had it etc.
I enjoy letters home. Seeing how people lived, what they said etc.
Remember, those people just came out of the great depression era.
People today would freak out if they had to ration gas, tires, bread, butter, eggs... blackouts.
I just completed two books on the 45th Infantry. The war in Italy does not get enough credit.
I have also read two war time publications of Ernie Kyle's books and I just got his book on being in London during the Blitz.
When ever I get a war letter,after reading it the first thing that I do is Google map the address to where the letter was going. It is interesting to see the home that their family lived in back then. But about 50% time now,the address turns out to be a CVS pharmacy or newly built strip mall or dollar general. Makes me sad to see American being torn down to make room for corporate China
I'll add more when I get home to a keyboard.
I enjoy letters home. Seeing how people lived, what they said etc.
Remember, those people just came out of the great depression era.
People today would freak out if they had to ration gas, tires, bread, butter, eggs... blackouts.
I just completed two books on the 45th Infantry. The war in Italy does not get enough credit.
I have also read two war time publications of Ernie Kyle's books and I just got his book on being in London during the Blitz.
When ever I get a war letter,after reading it the first thing that I do is Google map the address to where the letter was going. It is interesting to see the home that their family lived in back then. But about 50% time now,the address turns out to be a CVS pharmacy or newly built strip mall or dollar general. Makes me sad to see American being torn down to make room for corporate China
I'll add more when I get home to a keyboard.
Posted on 11/22/21 at 9:58 am to Strannix
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Ill never understand why we supported international Bolshevism on both sides of the globe, 100+ million souls condemned to death with billions still enslaved in China
People are easily brainwashed- Hitler bad, Nazis bad. But all along, Hitler's goal was to stop what should have been our enemy too- Russian Bolshevism!
The Potsdam Conference was a joke, Stalin got everything he wanted, put us right back to laying the seeds for a potential WWIII. And if you look back at the Paris Peace Conference following WWI, the demands/terms pushed by the British and the French against Germany was never going to sit right with the Germans, laid the hatred and seeds for WWII. Interesting that Britain and France declared war on Germany first, not what most people were led to believe...
Posted on 11/22/21 at 10:14 am to Tiger in Texas
Britain & France declared war on Germany because of treaties with Poland that required them to come to the defense of Poland if invaded. Hitler's goals went way beyond containing Communism: Mein Kemp was extremely detailed in what his goals were & they did not stop at Russia. Look at a map of Europe at the time: every country east of Germany was invaded, conquered & occupied by Germany. Brainwashed ? Historical facts are historical facts accepted world wide.
Posted on 11/22/21 at 10:34 am to Tiger in Texas
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People are easily brainwashed- Hitler bad, Nazis bad. But all along, Hitler's goal was to stop what should have been our enemy too- Russian Bolshevism!
Germany is not defeated without Russia, dont always get to pick your allies
Posted on 11/22/21 at 10:53 am to Dire Wolf
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Germany is not defeated without Russia, dont always get to pick your allies
Bingo.
Posted on 11/22/21 at 11:52 am to Geaux Piggins Geaux
It is inconceivable because it propelled the US to an unprecedented level of prosperity while Europe was left in shambles. Good times lead to weak men, weak men lead to hard times.
TLDR: buckle the frick up
TLDR: buckle the frick up
Posted on 11/22/21 at 12:05 pm to Geaux Piggins Geaux
WWII has always been fascinating to me
Recently stumbled upon the armchair historians YouTube page and it’s been money for me…
Recently stumbled upon the armchair historians YouTube page and it’s been money for me…
Posted on 11/22/21 at 12:09 pm to beerJeep
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Even when you type only 4 words, they still come out broken. Why are you the way that you are?
Because those liberal fruitcakes don’t have anything to offer. Once they open their mouths and start talking they realize that their ways are fricked up but they have too much pride to realize that their ‘side’ is quickly transforming our country into a socialist shithole that’s run by globalist puppets
Been saying it for a long time, but frick anyone who supports the democrats. frick all you liberal assholes
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