VE DAY

[Len Rum]

D day in 94 was a big one. 1970 was probably still a little to raw. And the world was full of yoghurt knitters back then.

Nicer than today's meat eating fascists though Gaylord.

 

[BlueAnorak]

Your uncle Jim would probably point out that the British, and Commonwealth forces (The Desert Rats) didn't need the Yanks at El Alamein :-)
I will raise a glass to all the hero's today along with much of my street from the front of our gardens.

I'm as patriotic as anyone. I'm fucking glad the allies won the war but let's face facts. Without the USA the Germans would probably have won.

 

[Cheadle_hulmeBlue]

Entire street was out today. Nice to finally meet some of my neighbours

 

[urban genie]

I'm as patriotic as anyone. I'm fucking glad the allies won the war but let's face facts. Without the USA the Germans would probably have won.

I think instigating Operation Barbarossa affect the germans most in the latter years tbf helped just as much and also most of Italy Joining the allies in 43 stretching germany more

 

[Gaylord du Bois]

Nicer than today's meat eating fascists though Gaylord.

I'll have to take your word for that, Leonard.

I think instigating Operation Barbarossa affect the germans most in the latter years tbf helped just as much and also most of Italy Joining the allies in 43 stretching germany more

Hitler had a soft spot for us. Unlike a few on herr.

 

[give it to gordon]

Just spent a wonderful afternoon in my front garden getting pissed with with my spurs and Chelsea neighbours .....bye for now to pissed to type.

 

[Two Gun Bob]

Was it on penalties?

I cant remember a fing but I initially thought we had lost. I was probably too busy looking at the dodgy scaffolding poles holding the ground up. A dreadful affair and I remained in-clemently tense throughout the whole game. If memory now serves me correctly it was Gerona who we lost against dry bumming us one nil.

Rhine Necker arena below . I think the scaff-poles were on the other side and how that building ever stayed up I will never know. I thought the Germans could build ?

The more I am thinking about it it may have been Gerona's ground that was propped up ?

 

[BlueT]

I'm as patriotic as anyone. I'm fucking glad the allies won the war but let's face facts. Without the USA the Germans would probably have won.

I don't think so, it wasnt just the americans who were beating them with the allies, the russians had been building up their forces and were destroying them. The germans were overstretched. The war would of lasted a lot longer but eventually the russians, british, french, and every other counties in europe, and the world would of defeated them imo.
However god bless the brave american service men, and women for ultimately ending this brutal war with their military might, and bravery.

 

[Metal Biker]

I don't think so, it wasnt just the americans who were beating them with the allies, the russians had been building up their forces and were destroying them. The germans were overstretched. The war would of lasted a lot longer but eventually the russians, british, french, and every other counties in europe, and the world would of defeated them imo.
However god bless the brave american service men, and women for ultimately ending this brutal war with their military might, and bravery.

The Russians were being slaughtered. The main reason they joined the Allies was to persuade the Americans and Brits opened up a Second Front to relieve their struggling forces, giving them time to regroup and rebuild and force the Germans to fight on two fronts. Roosevelt wanted a D-Day as soon as 1942, but Churchill talked him out of it. In the end it was decided to cut the Germans throat (oil supplies) in North Africa, before proceeding with any major European offensive.

Had we not proceeded with Torch and Husky, the Soviets would have eventually been overwhelmed, winter or no. In 1942 the Soviets were in really bad shape. In the end it was the US and it's manufacturing power that was mostly responsible for turning the tide.

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

The Russians were being slaughtered. The main reason they joined the Allies was to persuade the Americans and Brits opened up a Second Front to relieve their struggling forces, giving them time to regroup and rebuild and force the Germans to fight on two fronts. Roosevelt wanted a D-Day as soon as 1942, but Churchill talked him out of it. In the end it was decided to cut the Germans throat (oil supplies) in North Africa, before proceeding with any major European offensive.

Had we not proceeded with Torch and Husky, the Soviets would have eventually been overwhelmed, winter or no. In 1942 the Soviets were in really bad shape. In the end it was the US and it's manufacturing power that was mostly responsible for turning the tide.

Damn you Sir, it was Dame Vera Lynns singing that put paid to the hun, and anyone who says otherwise is a traitor (and probably German).