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[Eeyore]

Well, to be fair, the USA was kind of busy fighting the Japanese.
Don't forget, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor (part of the USA), and
seized one of the US territories (the Philippines). Google "Bataan
Death March" someday. Did any European countries help out fighting
the Japanese?

GOOD LORD

Yes, well they do call Burma the 'forgotten war'. Ever seen the movie "The
Bridge on the River Kwai" or heard about the building of the Burma Railway
using forced labour (by British and Empire troops and Asian civilians). Makes
the Bataan Death March look like a picnic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bridge_on_the_River_Kwai
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burma_Railway

Of course, The British, Australians, New Zealanders, Gurkhas and Indians (and
doubtless other Empire troops) helped fight the Japanese. And some Dutch too.

There were Royal Navy ships in your Pacific sea forces too.

As I have always said, you Armericans haven't a clue about TRUE history.

Graham

 

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Well, to be fair, the USA was kind of busy fighting the Japanese.

WW2 started in Europe in August 1939. The Japanese didn't hit Pearl
Harbour in December 1941. The point I was making was that the U.S.A.
might have concentrated on the war against the Japanese in the
Pacific, but did in fact chose to commit troops to North Africa and
Europe as well - for which Europeans are grateful, though we do
appreciate that this was primarily motivated by enlightened American
self-interest rather than any particular sympathy for the countries
your ancestors had come from,

Don't forget, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor (part of the USA), and
seized one of the US territories (the Philippines).  

I'm Australian. My mother's older brother served in Papua-New Guinea
and the islands to the north in the last year of WW2.

http://www.racp.edu.au/index.cfm?objectid=57D8BA7E-BBA8-5D39-133611C9100A5B6A&id=126

Google "Bataan Death March" someday.  Did any European countries help
out fighting the Japanese?

As Eeyore has pointed out, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour was
part of a general attack on a number of European colonies in Southeast
 Asia - the Japanese invasion of Malaysia started almost immedately
afterwards

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/fall_of_singapore.htm

and the Japanese attack on Dutch-held Indonesia began only a few days
later.

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Dutch_Empire/Contents/Japanese_Invasion

The U.K. and Australia lost quite a few people fighting the Japanese,
and it was a U.K-led army that drove the Japanese out of Burma.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burma_Campaign

Maybe then bombing Japan with A-bombs could
have been avoided.  Imagine dropping an A-bomb on Dresden... unthinkable, huh?

I'm sure that if Churchill had had an A-bomb to drop on Dresden, he
would have used it rather than the fleet of 1300 bombers that were
required to ignite the firestorm that killed some 25,000 people.
Hiroshima lost 140,000 people and Nagasaki some 80,000, but Dresden is
clearly in the same class.

 

[Eeyore]

WW2 started in Europe in August 1939. The Japanese didn't hit Pearl
Harbour in December 1941. The point I was making was that the U.S.A.
might have concentrated on the war against the Japanese in the
Pacific, but did in fact chose to commit troops to North Africa and
Europe as well - for which Europeans are grateful, though we do
appreciate that this was primarily motivated by enlightened American
self-interest rather than any particular sympathy for the countries
your ancestors had come from,


I'm Australian. My mother's older brother served in Papua-New Guinea
and the islands to the north in the last year of WW2.

http://www.racp.edu.au/index.cfm?objectid=57D8BA7E-BBA8-5D39-133611C9100A5B6A&id=126


As Eeyore has pointed out, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour was
part of a general attack on a number of European colonies in Southeast
Asia - the Japanese invasion of Malaysia started almost immedately
afterwards

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/fall_of_singapore.htm

and the Japanese attack on Dutch-held Indonesia began only a few days
later.

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Dutch_Empire/Contents/Japanese_Invasion

The U.K. and Australia lost quite a few people fighting the Japanese,
and it was a U.K-led army that drove the Japanese out of Burma.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burma_Campaign


I'm sure that if Churchill had had an A-bomb to drop on Dresden, he
would have used it rather than the fleet of 1300 bombers that were
required to ignite the firestorm that killed some 25,000 people.
Hiroshima lost 140,000 people and Nagasaki some 80,000, but Dresden is
clearly in the same class.

Interesting point about Dresden. It was a MAJOR rail junction and therefore of
significant military significance.

Many of the numbers quoted dead were simply Nazi propaganda.

Furthermore the raids on Dresden were carried out by BOTH the USAAF and the RAF at the
specific request of the Russians.

Graham

 

[Eeyore]

Your level of ignorance is shocking.

As Eeyore has pointed out, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour was
part of a general attack on a number of European colonies in Southeast
Asia - the Japanese invasion of Malaysia started almost immedately
afterwards

Hence .....
http://www.amazon.com/Jungle-Neutral-Soldiers-Two-Year-Japanese/dp/1592281079

"Product Description

THE JUNGLE IS NEUTRAL makes The Bridge Over the River Kwai look like a tussle in a
schoolyard.

F. SPENCER CHAPMAN, the book's unflappable author, narrates with typical British aplomb
an amazing tale of four years spent as a guerrilla in the jungle, haranguing the
Japanese in occupied Malaysia.

Traveling sometimes by bicycle and motorcycle, rarely by truck, and mainly in dugouts,
on foot, and often on his belly through the jungle muck, Chapman recruits sympathetic
Chinese, Malays, Tamils, and Sakai tribesman into an irregular corps of jungle fighters.
Their mission: to harass the Japanese in any way possible. In riveting scenes, they blow
up bridges, cut communication lines, and affix plasticine (I assume he means plastic
explosive) to troop-filled trucks idling by the road. They build mines by stuffing
bamboo with gelignite. They throw grenades and disappear into the jungle, their faces
darkened with carbon, their tommy guns wrapped in tape so as not to reflect the
moonlight.

And when he is not battling the Japanese, or escaping from their prisons, he is fighting
the jungle's incessant rain, wild tigers, unfriendly tribesmen, leeches, and undergrowth
so thick it can take four hours to walk a mile.

This classic tale has been compared to Lawrence of Arabia's classic account, The Seven
Pillars of Wisdom, and the gritty account of day-to-day operations is so accurate that
the French Foreign Legion used the book as a primer on jungle warfare. It is a war story
without rival."

It's a stunning read !


Graham

 

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Hasn't anybody read any history?

The US was not prepared, militarily or politically, to enter the war
in 1941. But we had already chosen sides, and were helping the British
just short of a declaration of wat against Germany. And arming at a
frantic pace.

After Japan attacked, and threatened Hawaii, Alaska, the Alutians, and
even the US west coast, FDR met with Churchill and decided on a
"Europe first" war policy, sending most of our resources to europe and
atempting a minimal holding pattern in the Pacific. A near miracle in
the Coral Sea, and a genuine miracle at Midway, and some superb code
breaking, let us barely get away with it.

The Brits helped a little against the Japanese, but their resources
were minimal. They were especially weak in aircraft carriers, and the
Pacific war was mostly a carrier war.

The British did operate some aircraft carriers in the Pacifc at the
end of the war. They were fleet carriers with armoured flight decks,
where the American carriers had wooden flight decks, which allowed the
British carriers to shrug off kamikazee attacks. The impact of the 500
pound bombs typically involved didn't distort the British armoured
flight decks to any significant extent, and planes could land and take
off within minutes of a kamikazee impact - the times listed in the URL
below are 25, 40 and 60 minutes

http://www.navweaps.com/index_tech/tech-042.htm

 

[Eeyore]

That's funny: you snipped it to spin it in your preferred negative
direction, and you can't remember why.

Are you trying to deny the words ?

Graham

 

[Eeyore]

Your aircraft certainly weren't !


Not a lot of choice really.


BRITISH code breaking. That you guys initially ignored at the cost of many US
seamens' lives with East Coast sinkings.

The British did operate some aircraft carriers in the Pacifc at the
end of the war. They were fleet carriers with armoured flight decks,
where the American carriers had wooden flight decks, which allowed the
British carriers to shrug off kamikazee attacks. The impact of the 500
pound bombs typically involved didn't distort the British armoured
flight decks to any significant extent, and planes could land and take
off within minutes of a kamikazee impact - the times listed in the URL
below are 25, 40 and 60 minutes

http://www.navweaps.com/index_tech/tech-042.htm

Very true. The British carriers were much tougher. Whatever persuaded the USN to
use wooden decks is unfathomable.

Mind you, a guy I know did during his service see an F4 Phantom go through a
British carrier deck and end up in the Officers' Wardroom !

Graham

 

[Richard The Dreaded Libertarian]

Yes and had you lot not been attacked at Pearl Harbor and Germany then
declared war on you, all of Europe would have finally fallen to Russia.

Come on, Graham. You can't be claiming that there was no one in Europe who
had a clue how to save their own ass? And that without US intervention,
you'd have _all_ gone down? Sounds a lot like "US 1, Them, 0."

And, when it comes to being dominated, has no one in Europe ever heard of
"civil disobedience?" >:->

Oh, yeah - when you weren't paying attention, your authorities disarmed
all of you and taught you to be subhuman obediant sheep, devoid of even
a trace of self-respect.

Sorry if my noticing this phenomenon offends you.

Cheers!
Rich

 

[Eeyore]

I have no idea what "deny the words" could possibly mean; the web page
exists. You did snip Kristol's sentence to better align with your
prejudices.

He is right, of course. Kristol is a very smart and funny guy.

And a fascist. Heil Palin !

Can't you even see the disaster your country is creating ?

Graham

 

[Eeyore]

Come on, Graham. You can't be claiming that there was no one in Europe who
had a clue how to save their own ass?

Yes us, the British. Sweden, Switzerland, the Irish Free State and
Spain/Portogal stayed out of it by being Neutral

Graham

 

[Eeyore]

I see the world getting better, more prosperous and more
democratic

Bwahahahahaaaa !

Christ you're blind.

Graham

 

[Eeyore]

No, they were pitiful in 1941. But three years later, we had mass
quantities of Hellcats, Avengers, P38s, P47s, P51s, B17s, B29s,
Catalinas, many with microwave radar

Designed by 'Taffy Bowen' from Wales and his boys plus the superb physicists at
Birmingham UK and the work of GEC (nor GE).

and crystal-controlled VHF
radios, all with superb pilots. Those American farm boys, hunting and
shooting and driving cars and tractors all their lives, nearly
fearless, were incredible pilots.


Why no choice? The US had a strong isolationist streak after the
carnage of WWI, but still chose to help Britain. So instead of saying
"thanks", you say we had "no choice."

So you'd have surrendered to the Japanese ?

Not the Japanese Purple code.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_code#Weaknesses_and_Cryptanalysis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Friedman

"In 1941 Friedman was hospitalized with a "nervous breakdown",
generally attributed to the mental strain of his work on PURPLE. While
he remained in hospital, a four-man team — Abraham Sinkov and Leo
Rosen from SIS, and Lt. Prescott Currier and Lt. Robert Weeks from the
U.S. Navy's OP-20-G — visited the British cryptological establishment
at the "Government Code and Cypher School" in Bletchley Park. They
gave the British a PURPLE machine, in exchange for details on the
design of the Enigma machine and on how the British decrypted the
Enigma cipher.

However Freidman was to visit Bletchley Park in April 1943 and play a
key role in drawing up the 1943 BRUSA Agreement."

You don't bother to do any reading or research, do you? You just sort
of repeat rumors you imagine that you heard.

So you broke one code ! Goody for you.

Graham

 

[Eeyore]

Again, you have opinions based on no research, no facts, no history,
just prejuduces.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy#20th_century

"Currently, there are 123 countries that are democratic, and the trend
is increasing (up from 40 in 1972)"

And that's all down to the USA is it ? I thought you liked invading or
usurping nations and removing their elected representatives by means fair
or foul. And you're not averse to backing tyrants (like Saddam) when it
suits the moment.

2 faced shits.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_India

"The economy of India, measured in USD exchange-rate terms, is the
twelfth largest in the world, with a GDP of around $1 trillion
(2008).[3] It recorded a GDP growth rate of 9.1% for the fiscal year
2007–2008 which makes it the second fastest big emerging economy,
after China, in the world."

With a LOT of help and support from BRITAIN.

Graham

 

[Eeyore]

You think war is sensible ?

except maybe for the Irish Free State, which
you must have sweet-talked into getting behind you.

WTF do you mean by that ?

Graham

 

[Eeyore]

Whether it is or not is immaterial.

Hardly IMHO.

The point is that you effectively talked Czechoslovakia into acceding to
Hitler's demands in return for what you thought would be your own
freedom from invasion by Hitler.

Stinks, doesn't it?

Read about it here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeasement

What EXACTLY do you think we could have done to stop it ?


That isn't an answer. If you mean some Irish chose to fight for/with our forces,
that was of their own free will. Despite what you may think, Ireland and Britain
have always had a close association.

Graham

 

[Eeyore]

Uh ?

You think you did it all yourselves ? There wasn't much rebuffing at Pearl
Harbor. At least us Brits were never caught with our pants down like that.

Graham

 

[Eeyore]

All you did, by not confronting it, early-on, was allow it to grow.

Britain doesn't have a border with Germany.

How exactly would we confront it ? What we did was to build up our forces and
defences in advance. Think of planes like the Hurricane and Spitfire that won the
Battle of Britain. Do you think they were designed and built overnight ? Or The
Lancasters, Lincolns and Halifax bombers and the Mosquito and Bristol Beaufighter
twin engined attack and night fighter aircraft with airborne radar. And who
commisioned the the P-51 Mustang ? NOT the USA !. It was all we could do. And it
was a LOT.

Graham

 

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   That's ok.  Everyone can see through their tall tales and don't
expect anything useful from them.

Mike Terrell doesn't know much about electronics outside his rather
narrow areas of expertise, and regularly writes off perfectly
respectable claims as "tall tales", simply because he doesn't knw any
better. But that's okay - we don't expect anything useful from him
anyway.

 

[Eeyore]

---
Oh, OK, you're right then. It is material.

Too bad you weren't smart enough, then, realizing that, to nip WW2 in
the bud, when you had the chance.

No such chance existed as I have reviously explained. The Secret Services did consider
assassinating Hitler, shame they didn't, but doubtless once of his henchmen would
simply have assumed his place.

Graham

 

[Eeyore]

All while pretending to be civilized and polite.

We are indeed both. About a year ago I was with 2 Zambian sisters and the
older one who spends more time in the USA in NY as it happens said "this
country (UK) rocks, there's nowhere else like it".

UK 1: USA ZERO.

Graham