The European Air Arms Race 1935 - 1939 part 2 of 2
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[2012-04-30 19:51:36] alpinorico - only if you learn ...
only if you learn your history in bars or from comic book
[2012-04-04 02:28:34] MrStringedbean - how so? how so?
[2011-10-20 09:17:09] 13341ggcaus - France = biggest ...France = biggest loser, worst shameful surrender in ww2.
[2010-12-19 01:18:26] impCaesarAvg - "... woe betide an ..."... woe betide an agressor."
[2010-10-30 00:10:59] binaway - Lord Sopwith used ...Lord Sopwith used his own money to build the first 100 hurricanes before receiving the first government contract. The RAF therefore had 100 more hurricanes than it would otherwise. He possibly saved his country by doing this.
[2010-10-22 02:38:28] muzlinkage - biggest burden in ...biggest burden in Burma. "Pakistani" troops, courageous, resilient, tough, earned the respect of everyone they worked with. It was their old style chain of command that restricted their enterprise. T One of my best friends, black Guinea African, devout muslim- i drove to the airport monday. I'm no racist. Call me Anglo again, i'll get on a plane, fly to Karachi, hunt you down and kick your bottom...
[2010-10-22 02:30:23] muzlinkage - to units PAKISTANI ...to units PAKISTANI them let me see them and I will apologise unreservedly and stand corrected. You WILL find, Kashmiri, Gudjerati, Sihk, Rajastani etc along with what is now known as Indian troops. The 4th Indian were excellent static defence troops but cumbersome in attack (very much more British standing orders) Well respected by the Aussies.4th Indian was made up partly by troops from what is known to history since 1947 as PAKISTAN. Indian troops (+ Pakistan) bore the (cont)
[2010-10-22 02:21:27] muzlinkage - You are normally ...You are normally quite composed and i have to say, in amongst all of the trolling and abuse on youtube, your absence of profanity refreshing and your advocacy for the case of recognition of Pakistani people is quite understandable. It is obviously a sore point with you. What you don't seem to understand is that your redacting of history is for personal reasons. To say Pakistani units were in action is a nonsense like my supposed racism. If you can find and reference at all (cont)
[2010-10-20 07:57:21] swanningaround - Not really ...Not really interested. You are talking anglobabble. I didn't spit the dummy when I called you a racist. It is obvious you are. You play that India/Pakistan game to deny the Pakistani people any credit for the valuable part they played in WW2.
[2010-10-19 23:17:23] muzlinkage - What the fuck is ...What the fuck is anglobabble? you are exposing yourself. Do you know my race? no not that it would matter. You subvert history in the service of that chip on your shoulder. you contradict yourself repeatedly. you do not care for dialogue. i once judged you incompetent when you included Pakistan in the Nth African battles and you spit the dummy! called me a racist! what race am i? doesn't matter to you. your mind is poisoned by inferiority complex. It was the 4th Indian in Africa
[2010-10-19 23:07:04] muzlinkage - I made the mistake ...I made the mistake of debating with him once- it was excruciating
[2010-10-19 12:18:32] LordGodofMercy - Yes Swanningaround ...Yes Swanningaround is a 24 Carat Jackass. He has nothing to say apart from bad mouthing English people. I think his boyfriend ran off with an English girl.
[2010-10-12 22:43:22] swanningaround - I have no idea what ...I have no idea what all that means. Anglobabble I guess. By the way, I meant England, not any ot the others you mentioned.
[2010-10-11 22:46:38] muzlinkage - I've met this ...I've met this character online some time ago. Let me tell you, he is so completely confident of his superiority and so utterly bereft of any serious analysis of the subject that it is a COMPLETE WASTE OF TIME TALKING WITH SWANNINGAROUND. I'm warning you, his stupidity is prodigious. Just when you think he has said something particularly ludicrous in such a condescending way, he keeps going with something mind-numbingly ridiculous in a dismissive way. Avoid this clown.
[2010-10-11 22:39:17] muzlinkage - By England you mean ...By England you mean Britain, (who, along with her Dominions, Australia New Zealand Canada Sth Africa India) - The Usa - The Soviet Union - The Free French- Free Czechs and Poles - The Resistance Europe and Asia - make up the ALLIES who,in my opinion, together won the war but hey swanny, don't let a million books and doco's stand in the way of your AMAZING KNOWLEDGE (lol) 'Most countries are far more likely etc" When? in Colonial time perhaps.
[2010-08-03 11:08:33] CaptBubble - Britain paid a huge ...Britain paid a huge sum of money for all US aid in BOTH World Wars, the final instalment of $86 billion was paid in December 2006. They also had to give US all their top tech, like Merlin engines, jet engines, radar, computers and decryting, penincillin, aerodynamics, etc. Thus the US was the only country to become wealthier as a result of these wars, we should never forget that British money and technology made us so wealthy and powerful
[2010-06-14 22:53:50] Alembic25 - The ugly french ...The ugly french bomber at the start of the piece is the Amiot 143. Basically of the same era as the Handley Page Heyford it was obsolete as the war started and they were hacked down with ease by the Luftwaffe. It was very very slow and carried a tiny bombload. Amiot had a new attractive twin engined bomber just entering production in '40 called the Amiot 354 but as usual they ran out of time.
[2010-06-02 00:57:08] binaway - The war was won by ...The war was won by a gigantic allied effort. No nation won it by themselves. The Soviets fought huge battles in the east and had 300 fully equipped divisions but 4 out of every six vehicles they used were made in the west. Most from the USA but also thousands from Canada and Britain. The USA supplied the Red army half a million tonnes of steel rail tracks and 26million boots etc etc. The USA had 70 divisions in Europe when war ended and Britain about 12.
[2010-04-09 18:45:01] Rockapebates - LOL you mean from ...LOL you mean from Russia, the Russians destroyed 85% of German forces, they were the major contributors to victory in europe dispite what the Americans like to think.
[2010-02-16 06:01:04] pramboy09 - basically no ...basically no different from ww1.
[2010-02-15 20:59:44] sard37 - How good/ bad was ...How good/ bad was it??
[2010-01-23 09:24:59] pramboy09 - you should have ...you should have seen the french army equipment!!
[2009-12-27 02:06:53] mixedbreed10 - : U sound so ...: U sound so ignorant of the facts. England wouldn't have lasted into 1942 had it not been for the massive aid it received from the U.S.
[2009-12-16 23:05:53] Ralroost - Holy crap that ...Holy crap that Bloch bomber was ugly.
[2009-12-14 01:43:08] swanningaround - allinpryce. You are ...allinpryce. You are correct. England did win WW2. Most countries are far more likely to be attacked by England tnan either Russia or China. It is England that is the warmonger, but people are afraid of England and kowtow to it.
[2009-12-13 23:48:55] allinpryce - wee can go on and ...wee can go on and on m8. bot yes wee did win ww2 & in doing so wee have a safer place. as 4 China & Russia thay are not trying to get a to make the world a safer place wen thay are more likey to stat 1 lol. bot the thing is that thare will allways be a nutter sumware. so the world will never be 100% safe lol. xx
[2009-11-28 00:12:25] nosign87 - if you actually ...if you actually belief what you wrote here you should get back to history class asap
[2009-11-20 19:52:56] swanningaround - Ant. Yes they do. ...Ant. Yes they do. You only have to open up an English newspaper, and they will still be going on about Germans losing the war and Japanese being "cruel" and ""Inhuman". That is what England is like. Every time I go to Germany, there are some English going on about the war. They say "don't mention the war" all the time. Pathetic really.
[2009-11-20 16:25:20] Antarayan - what a load of ...what a load of shit nobody goes on about any of that
[2009-11-19 23:36:47] swanningaround - allin. I guess that ...allin. I guess that is what it is all about. England did win WW2. It has been telling us ever since and rubbing peoples' noses in it. Other countries such as China, Russia and the USA have moved on and want to make the world a safer place. All England wants to do is keep on telling German, Italian, Russian and Japanese people what a bunch of losers they are.
[2009-11-19 23:33:35] allinpryce - england won ww2. ...england won ww2. the us was just in ww2 for 2 weeks not for 5 years like wee was. & u lot just come to help us because of what happend in Pearl Harbor that is all.
[2009-11-10 20:57:59] sard37 - Why are the french ...Why are the french planes so shit? no wonder Hitler had such an easy job.
[2009-11-02 21:13:49] swanningaround - LordGod. We are ...LordGod. We are discussing English attrocities here. As I have mentioned, don't try to shift the blame to other countries for your horrible war crimes. No one is perfect. It is just that the English were so much more dreadful than the others.
[2009-11-02 14:49:27] LordGodofMercy - So swanningaround ...So swanningaround you are proud of the carpet bombing of Japanese cities.I had a hunch you were an arsehole and this proves it.
[2009-09-04 22:05:16] swanningaround - LordGod. Are you ...LordGod. Are you still gloating of your wartime attrocities? All you English can do is call other people silly names. I'm glad I wasn't born in England.
[2009-09-04 21:43:29] LordGodofMercy - Swanningaround So ...Swanningaround So the closet Nazi could be American. What a fuckwit! In fact you are the Fuckwits fuckwit. The supreme Knob, Master of all who apologises for Nazi behaviour. King of the Himmler lovers. He who dreams of felching Hitlers arsehole.
[2009-07-03 09:20:33] swanningaround - Not true. The US ...Not true. The US won WW2.
[2009-06-18 00:19:47] loempia741 - I don't hate the ...I don't hate the Usa but let me set something straight. The last time u fought on European soil, you only fought against the german (and italian) army that was attacked from both sides, having a great deal of his troops fighting in the east against russia. What wud usa do if they had to fight France, Spain, Britain, italy, Belgium, the netherlands and so on, in WW2 and today.. ?
[2009-04-15 18:11:34] Fridomfry - Good catch thanks ...Good catch thanks for pointing at it ! It was so rare indeed that it never saw combat. What a mess The parachutist drop, at 4:, is a rare image too. Pdt. Lebrun at the airshow. De Gaulle wrote of him: "For him to be a chief of state, only two things were lacking: That he be a chief, and that there was a state"
[2009-03-20 08:37:37] sirFlashman - germans are the ...germans are the last one to talk about stealing land and shooting unarmed civilians