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December 15, 2016, 08:53 AM
AllenInAR
Spitfires and JG 26 Bf109s? I'm in.
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December 17, 2016, 06:55 PM
Rolan_Kraps
Better than making a movie about Dieppe.
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December 17, 2016, 07:55 PM
Windhover
They did make a movie about Dieppe, creatively titled, "Dieppe."
Edited to add: Sorry, not a movie. A Canadian mini-series.
December 17, 2016, 08:17 PM
cyberphobia
Dieppe what a disaster.
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December 18, 2016, 07:55 AM
IrishWind
I saw the CBC mini series Dieppe. It was good.
This movie looks great. I cannot wait to see it.
Lord, your ocean is so very large and my divos are so very f****d-up Dirt Sailors Unite!
December 18, 2016, 07:59 AM
RogueJSK
I'm a huge WW2 nerd. Of course I'm excited to see this.
quote:
Originally posted by cyberphobia: Dieppe what a disaster.
As disastrous as the Dieppe raid was, it provided the opportunity for the Allies to learn some much-needed lessons on amphibious assaults. Without Dieppe, the Allies likely would not have been as successful during the landings in North Africa 3 months later, Italy 1 year later, and Normandy two years later.
Scene is Dunkirk but from Joe Wright's movie "Atonement"
So there are two movies out now about Dunkirk??
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December 18, 2016, 06:14 PM
cyberphobia
All you seem to be interesting about is the Movie.
What about the poor soldiers,sailors,airman and civilians that died!!!!!!
You Americans need to go to Europe to see where all this stuff actual happened.
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December 18, 2016, 06:24 PM
Butch 2340
Atonement - 2007
Dunkirk is the new film
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December 18, 2016, 06:42 PM
Sig2340
Like so many events in WWII, I cannot conceive of the horror that was Dunkirque.
Just the stench and noise would be a challenge to shut out.
And wondering if you are getting home or not.
The same is true for Crete, Iwo, Peliliu, Stalingrad, Tarawa, Tobruk, and dozens of other places known today for being a place where men died in vast numbers. And then there is the bomber war. Missions like Dresden, Polesti, Schweinfurt, and anywhere Lancasters flew.
They were extraordinary men and women.
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December 18, 2016, 06:49 PM
RogueJSK
quote:
Originally posted by cyberphobia: All you seem to be interesting about is the Movie.
What about the poor soldiers,sailors,airman and civilians that died!!!!!!
You Americans need to go to Europe to see where all this stuff actual happened.
And you Brits need to stop painting with such a broad brush. Not all of us are your stereotypical shortsighted, historically-ignorant "Yanks". Many of us happen to be well-versed in history.
Besides, not every thread has to necessarily be a meaningful discussion of the horrors of history and the tragic fates suffered by the people involved. (We have plenty of those, too.)
There's also room for a superficial discussion of an interesting upcoming film, like this one.
Much like we can have threads on guns without every post involving a deep discussion about the awful things that countless people throughout history have suffered that involved firearms.
December 18, 2016, 07:18 PM
LINVS
quote:
Originally posted by RogueJSK:
quote:
Originally posted by cyberphobia: All you seem to be interesting about is the Movie.
What about the poor soldiers,sailors,airman and civilians that died!!!!!!
You Americans need to go to Europe to see where all this stuff actual happened.
And you Brits need to stop painting with such a broad brush. Not all of us are your stereotypical shortsighted, historically-ignorant "Yanks". Many of us happen to be well-versed in history.
Besides, not every thread has to necessarily be a meaningful discussion of the horrors of history and the tragic fates suffered by the people involved. (We have plenty of those, too.)
There's also room for a superficial discussion of an interesting upcoming film, like this one.
Much like we can have threads on guns without every post involving a deep discussion about the awful things that countless people throughout history have suffered that involved firearms.
It doesn't become American history until 1941. We spend far to much time worried about other folks business.
Even in 1941, if we had sat out the war in Europe, a lot of our grandfathers would have lived.
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December 18, 2016, 07:19 PM
RogueJSK
quote:
Originally posted by LINVS: It doesn't become American history until 1941.
America was involved in WW2 well before December 7th, 1941.
quote:
We spend far to much time worried about other folks business.
World history is our history. You can't just try to view it through a lens of "America only", ignoring the rest. It's all interconnected.
quote:
Even in 1941, if we had sat out the war in Europe, a lot of our grandfathers would have lived.
Our entry into the war against Germany was inevitable, and absolutely necessary. Sitting it out wasn't an option.
December 18, 2016, 09:52 PM
andronicus
I seem to remember Hitler saying how he was impressed with how America dealt with the Native Americans. So it is really something when a guy like him is impressed with how we handled genocide.
December 18, 2016, 10:15 PM
RogueJSK
John Toland wrote in his biography of Hitler:
quote:
Hitler's concept of concentration camps as well as the practicality of genocide owed much, so he claimed, to his studies of English and United States history. He admired the camps for Boer prisoners in South Africa and for the Indians in the wild west; and often praised to his inner circle the efficiency of America's extermination—by starvation and uneven combat—of the red savages who could not be tamed by captivity.
Hitler also had a lifelong fondness for "Cowboys and Indians" pulp fiction novels.
