Text 20272, 59 rader
Skriven 2005-12-28 10:48:18 av Ross Cassell (1:123/456)
  Kommentar till text 20234 av Björn Felten (2:203/2)
Ärende: Lack of Gratitude
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Hello Björn!

28 Dec 05 07:36, you wrote to me:

 RC>> US Soldiers suffered the highest casualties on D-day and on the
 RC>> march across France and Belgium they to suffered the most
 RC>> casualties,

 BF>    That's because they had the worst generals and bad equipment. Had
 BF> not Patton insisted on that worthless piece of crap called Sherman
 BF> tank, a lot fewer of those really brave US soldiers would have died.
 BF> First trying to get the crap ashore, and then trying to fight the
 BF> German Tiger tanks.

Patton didnt insist on the Sherman, that was the decision of the war dept and
producing tanks, ships and planes in greater numbers than the germans could was
deemed feasible.

Of all the Allies, it was the Russians whom had a tank, introduced late in the
war, that could stand toe to toe with the german tanks. I want to say it was
the TU36??????

 RC>> When Berlin was Divided, you didnt have a Belgian, Dutch or
 RC>> Swedish sector, you had 4 sectors, Canadian, British, American
 RC>> and Russian.

 BF>    Canadian? I thought the fourth was French. But you were just
 BF> proving the point I was going to make. Why French and not Canadian and
 BF> also Australian. Surely those two countries did more than the French.

Actually you are right, the French had the NW section of West Berlin, I belief
OZ and Canadians helped the British admin the British sector.. France was given
its own sector for political reasons. In 1948 the allied sectors were united
and kept in name only.

 RC>> Felten and Van Der Vlist should keep their yaps shut, their
 RC>> nations did little to nothing.

 BF>    You may want to repeat that to the faces of the widows and orphans
 BF> of those 3,500 Swedish sailors that got their cold and watery graves
 BF> in the North Atlantic shipping supply. Converted to the size of the US
 BF> population that means 105,000 casualties.

and? Point is, you all did little to nothing. I said that when you and VDV
bitch just compare the USA contributions to your countries and thats what I
mean.

This war is what brought us the cold war and is what made the USA into the
belligerent bully you claim it to be, using a little hindsight, you all could
have prevented ww2 on your own.

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