World War II

[lord twiggy1]

heres a hint a word from their language is NINE

[war_bloodline]

American,







or German both have nine (English) and nein (German), they sound the same.

[Blueoctober]

no i think it was britain

[everywhere116]

The Germans parachuted into France and Norway, so I would have to guess them.

[dcowboys055]

americans were the first to use paratroopers, in sicily

[everywhere116]

The German invasion of France was before the invasion of Sicily.

[dcowboys055]

ah, got me there

[kcoenich]

I just know that the german invation to Russia was the biggest invation in history... over 3,000,000 soldiers and near 78 divisions of tanks crossed the border in that invation...

with the parachute theme, Germans tried it on Sicily before the americans, but it was a total failure, because of that they didn`t wanted to repeat that practice...

[Blueoctober]

I just know that the german invation to Russia was the biggest invation in history... over 3,000,000 soldiers and near 78 divisions of tanks crossed the border in that invation...

with the parachute theme, Germans tried it on Sicily before the americans, but it was a total failure, because of that they didn`t wanted to repeat that practice...

why woudl the germans invade scicily? its owned by italy. italy+germany=aixs

[lord twiggy1]

everywhere116 has the correct answer

[lord twiggy1]

I just know that the german invation to Russia was the biggest invation in history... over 3,000,000 soldiers and near 78 divisions of tanks crossed the border in that invation...

with the parachute theme, Germans tried it on Sicily before the americans, but it was a total failure, because of that they didn`t wanted to repeat that practice...

why woudl the germans invade scicily? its owned by italy. italy+germany=aixs

not compleatly true. the italians joind the axis after sicily i belive

[lord twiggy1]

must put this to the top so


BUMB

[Serbia]

I recently saw a very good movie about Hitler's last days, as the Russian armies were surrounding Berlin. It's call "Downfall", and is a German language movie. Watched it with subtitles, so most of us here would have to read along. From what I've read, it's a pretty acurate depiction of Hitler, his generals, and the other main players involved on the German side.

If you can find it, I'd recommend it... we got it from our local blockbuster.

[war_bloodline]

How about D-day.
Two point question.

1-In what bay did the invasion take place in?
2-On Normandy there were 25 main batteries that were pointed out towards the sea, all except 1 of them were taken, in fact the one that was not taken was never attacked.
Your question, what was the name of the batterie (ex: Point du Hoc) that was not taken, and what was the closes town to it?

[war_bloodline]

I recently saw a very good movie about Hitler's last days, as the Russian armies were surrounding Berlin. It's call "Downfall", and is a German language movie. Watched it with subtitles, so most of us here would have to read along. From what I've read, it's a pretty acurate depiction of Hitler, his generals, and the other main players involved on the German side.

If you can find it, I'd recommend it... we got it from our local blockbuster.

I will do that, I have not seen very many films about Hitler, unless you want me to count films that are old and are in German.

[Aradhus]

Do any of you that have posted in this topic actually know anything about WW2 or are you just sitting with a wikipedia page opened to give the pretence that you have knowledge?

Mud wrestle between Stalin and Hitler(two of the most fascinating characters from the last century), who wins?

For anyone who is interested, Mein Kampf.

[areon]

not compleatly true. the italians joind the axis after sicily i belive

You got that backwards, they joined the allies after sicily fell. That's why a German army moved in to hold Italy and did a pretty good job of it.

EDIT-yeah you people got a lot wrong the parachute operation was on Crete and it succeeded but Hitler didn't like the casualties needed to carry it out; the same thing happened to the allies when they carried out airborne operations on d-day and market garden, high casualties

[war_bloodline]

Do any of you that have posted in this topic actually know anything about WW2 or are you just sitting with a wikipedia page opened to give the pretence that you have knowledge?

Mud wrestle between Stalin and Hitler(two of the most fascinating characters from the last century), who wins?

For anyone who is interested, Mein Kampf.

Yes, some of us are very big on history here.
I am sure some of us are going to college on a history degree.
I am in AP American and AP World History and AP Gov. and I am only a sophomore in high school, favorite topic warfare and tactics of warfare, main war area I study the most are The Middle Ages, WW1 and WW2.

To answer your question, how could we prove Hitler of Stalin could win, it is the tactics that stand out to them, not hand to hand combat.

[Aradhus]

I was mocking with my question.

Hitler wasn't tactically aware, was he. He took the victories of his generals and paraded them as his own. That went to his head and he started to believe that he actually was a great military tactician. That's when he started to interfere more with the work of his generals and he caused more harm than good.

The Russians were just caught with their pants down.

I have no doubt in my mind that Stalin was the greater man.

[war_bloodline]

I was mocking with my question.

Hitler wasn't tactically aware, was he. He took the victories of his generals and paraded them as his own. That went to his head and he started to believe that he actually was a great military tactician. That's when he started to interfere more with the work of his generals and he caused more harm than good.

The Russians were just caught with their pants down.

I have no doubt in my mind that Stalin was the greater man.

Hitler did have a very bad plan for how to start to the war and keep it up, and Stalin did not care how many died under his command, both losses in my book.

The Russians were just caught with their pants down.

mmm, yes and no.
Stalin wrote letters to his generals that he did not trust Hitler to keep his peace with Russia (mainly because Stalin knew Hitler was a anit-communist).
Yet no because some of his letters never made it to some of his generals, and he never made any real set up for defence, if he was it was only hoping that winter would hold the Germans back.

[kcoenich]

aradhus wrote:

Do any of you that have posted in this topic actually know anything about WW2 or are you just sitting with a wikipedia page opened to give the pretence that you have knowledge?

I do have knowledge of the events of WWII its maybe my favorite historical topic to talk about...

[everywhere116]

How about D-day.
Two point question.

1-In what bay did the invasion take place in?
2-On Normandy there were 25 main batteries that were pointed out towards the sea, all except 1 of them were taken, in fact the one that was not taken was never attacked.
Your question, what was the name of the batterie (ex: Point du Hoc) that was not taken, and what was the closes town to it?

D-Day was June 6 1944. I dont know the name of the battery, but I am guessing it was closest to Carteret

[edmundomcpot]

questions to disscuss

what would of happend if d-day never happend or happend later then it did?

what wwould of happend if the ships in pearl harbour were ready to fight the japanese planes?

what would of happend if Russia lost in Stalingrad?

who would of succeded hitler in the Nazi regieme if the planned assainations were successful?

[war_bloodline]

what would of happend if d-day never happend or happend later then it did?

Then the forces could have come in from Italy, remember Italy had already been taken by the allies by this point. Now if the forces did have d-day yet if they were driven back to the sea, well then our moral would have droped and it would have been a diffrent story.

what wwould of happend if the ships in pearl harbour were ready to fight the japanese planes?

It still would have been and act of war weather we were ready or not.
The change would have been that a lot more planes would have been shot down, and the carriers from Japan could have been sunk by ships sent out to find them.

what would of happend if Russia lost in Stalingrad?

Stalin would not be very happy and a lot more commanders would have been shot. I don't know I don't think Germany would have ever taken Russia, it would just be to hard to pull it off, and to far away from Germany.

who would of succeded hitler in the Nazi regieme if the planned assainations were successful?

Well infact the one that was to take control of Germany if Hitler died, did take control for the short time after Hitler's suicide, his name was Karl Doenitz, and if he died I think it would have been, Franz von Papen.

[war_bloodline]

How about D-day.
Two point question.

1-In what bay did the invasion take place in?
2-On Normandy there were 25 main batteries that were pointed out towards the sea, all except 1 of them were taken, in fact the one that was not taken was never attacked.
Your question, what was the name of the batterie (ex: Point du Hoc) that was not taken, and what was the closes town to it?

D-Day was June 6 1944. I dont know the name of the battery, but I am guessing it was closest to Carteret

No it was not near Carteret.