Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2010 9:06 am Post subject:
Overlord's Anniversary
Subject description: June 6th, 1944
Operation Overlord, the invasion on Normandy, reaches another anniversary today, June the 6th.
Another year passes after the iconic landings in France and attempts to cripple the Nazi war effort and end the Second World War, as far as is my understanding.
We've come a long way from there and then - we have movies about the heroic landing, we even have a nice mod to look at - but we still have to look back and remember where the world has been, and the people sent to change it, without the filters and heroism, and just at the sacrifice. QUICK_EDIT
Can we ever really understand how terrible the war, or the operation alone, was? I think the movie "Saving Private Ryan" depicts it quite well. _________________ QUICK_EDIT
the Russians did most of the work in the European theater
And the Americans Bankrolled the whole thing. But you lot only got involve once you were attacked. Otherwise you'd have stood idly by whilst the Nazis and the Japanese swallowed all of Europe and asia. _________________ Albrecht never dies, he just goes to the nearest bar to regroup. QUICK_EDIT
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Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2010 6:57 pm Post subject:
Yeah, and we did our part. But unfortunately, American schools try to push more what we did for WWII than what actually happened, and it bothers me a bit. The attitude conveyed to us is that we did most of the work is unfortunately what I remember being taught in grade school.
It wasn't until college that I got any semblance of how much the Russians did. Plus the professor I had happened to play C&C95 and RA1 when he was younger, which was pretty cool despite being off-topic.
Yeah, we did fund a lot of it, but we weren't the source of every victory. _________________ QUICK_EDIT
Uh, Russians didn't do more than the Americans? ztyping foolish. the russians lost millions of people, civilian and military, fighting against the nazi war machine. If I'm not mistaken, it was the USSR who conquered Berlin.
Doesn't matter who payed for it. I'm sure teh soldiers who fought and died would agree. QUICK_EDIT
Yeah, and we did our part. But unfortunately, American schools try to push more what we did for WWII than what actually happened, and it bothers me a bit. The attitude conveyed to us is that we did most of the work is unfortunately what I remember being taught in grade school.
It wasn't until college that I got any semblance of how much the Russians did. Plus the professor I had happened to play C&C95 and RA1 when he was younger, which was pretty cool despite being off-topic.
Yeah, we did fund a lot of it, but we weren't the source of every victory.
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Uh, Russians didn't do more than the Americans? ztyping foolish. the russians lost millions of people, civilian and military, fighting against the nazi war machine. If I'm not mistaken, it was the USSR who conquered Berlin.
Doesn't matter who payed for it. I'm sure teh soldiers who fought and died would agree.
WWII was won with Russian blood armed with American guns shipped from British Ports. We foulght alone from the fall of france til Barbarossa so give us a little credit, at the very least we are the most awesome amphibious assault ship ever and at the best we were a vital ally.
Fighting a war from across the atlantic is impossible without a secure base at one end, an amphibious landing right into the continent would have been a disaster for the US. Luckily there was this handy stepping stone of an estranged parent in a convenient position... _________________ Albrecht never dies, he just goes to the nearest bar to regroup. QUICK_EDIT
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Overlord's Anniversary
