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by Florin
Tue Apr 25, 2006 11:22 pm
Forum: Kriegsmarine
Topic: No Bismarck or Tirpitz
Replies: 68
Views: 27468

Re: No Bismarck or Tirpitz

As many of you know, when Bismark was hit by those torpedoes, it was during a maneuver the ship did to avoid the British biplanes and their torpedoes. Because of that, in the moment the ship lost its control over direction, it was facing toward the shore of Great Britain. Then, for hours, to the sur...
by Florin
Thu Oct 27, 2005 4:14 pm
Forum: Philately and Currency
Topic: Stamps - at a size never seen before on World Wide Web
Replies: 3
Views: 8752

Re: For the sake of accuracy

......................................... They are also in the forum of http://www.worldwide2.ro. However, there I introduced them scattered in several topics, among other replies, and it would be not so easy even for me to find them now. I made a typing mistake. Actually the site is http://www.wor...
by Florin
Wed Oct 26, 2005 9:15 pm
Forum: Philately and Currency
Topic: Stamps - at a size never seen before on World Wide Web
Replies: 3
Views: 8752

For the sake of accuracy

For the sake of accuracy:
Actually they were seen once before on the World Wide Web.

They are also in the forum of http://www.worldwar2.ro.
However, there I introduced them scattered in several topics, among other replies, and it would be not so easy even for me to find them now.
by Florin
Wed Oct 26, 2005 5:40 pm
Forum: Philately and Currency
Topic: Stamps - at a size never seen before on World Wide Web
Replies: 3
Views: 8752

Stamps - at a size never seen before on World Wide Web

Enjoy! (And "click" with your mouse on the icons, to see them at full size. You may need then to "click" again on the enlarged picture, to see it in real size.) http://img427.imageshack.us/img427/1153/aaat600ppi3ms.th.jpg http://img427.imageshack.us/img427/1336/paratroopersat600p...
by Florin
Thu Jan 27, 2005 11:59 am
Forum: Foreign Volunteers, Collaboration and Axis Allies
Topic: Japanese Peace Feelers, 1942-1945
Replies: 8
Views: 4243

............. was there anything somewhere? Vatica, Sweden, Switzerlad or something else. Was there any conctact? Bye EC I saw a movie where an elite Allied commando landed in Taiwan (also known as Formosa, in those days) to pick up a Japanese minister, who by the way was sick (physical illness). T...
by Florin
Wed Jan 05, 2005 9:26 pm
Forum: Comments and Suggestions
Topic: I am proud to be a American
Replies: 97
Views: 41055

Florin, I found your answer interesting, but Ithink Germany's donation to Isreal was a healing process. Probably demanded by the victors......... Patrick, The 4.5 billions in Deutche Marks given by the Federal Republic of Germany to Israel, in the 50's, was not requested by any international treaty...
by Florin
Tue Jan 04, 2005 11:46 pm
Forum: Comments and Suggestions
Topic: I am proud to be a American
Replies: 97
Views: 41055

I dont know if I can ask this but what did the Jews do too Germans and Europeans in general to cause such hate? Americans dont understand, because they work hard and are smart, its the slackers we hate. I dont know if this question can be answered objectively. But what the hell. I don't have answer...
by Florin
Tue Jan 04, 2005 11:21 pm
Forum: Comments and Suggestions
Topic: I am proud to be a American
Replies: 97
Views: 41055

Florin Thanks for the insight, I thought it had something too with that. I just dont get your point. Respect Vpatrick Is this regarding the times of Hadrian during the Roman Empire? The point is: Yes, the emperor dispersed the population of Judeea, because "enough was enough". A guy claim...
by Florin
Tue Jan 04, 2005 11:14 pm
Forum: Comments and Suggestions
Topic: I am proud to be a American
Replies: 97
Views: 41055

......US is a country trying sloppily to pick up the pieces of hundreds of years of European mistakes. OK, I promise I'll ignore and I'll spare "SS 2nd Panzer" because he is 14. But if you, as an adult, could write what I am quoting here, and I you believe it, you at least do not have the...
by Florin
Tue Jan 04, 2005 11:09 pm
Forum: Comments and Suggestions
Topic: I am proud to be a American
Replies: 97
Views: 41055

................ They fled to the only place they had any kind of claim, (Europeans ran em out of town, and Aruba was full) Isreal. A country that was broken up by past haters of the jews, and were dispersed all over the world. ..............Vpatrick Patrick, Even though the American history, as le...
by Florin
Tue Jan 04, 2005 10:39 pm
Forum: Comments and Suggestions
Topic: I am proud to be a American
Replies: 97
Views: 41055

Re: I am proud to be a American

.............I am overjoyed to watch the cities of all people who hate America and its people be overrun by our proud and noble military. I realized how much these countries hate America, I find it importent that I hate them as well. I am proud of everything America has done since 2001. I will stan...
by Florin
Mon Jan 03, 2005 8:29 am
Forum: Foreign Volunteers, Collaboration and Axis Allies
Topic: Japanese Peace Feelers, 1942-1945
Replies: 8
Views: 4243

At the start of August 1945, the Japanese were in negotiations with the Americans themselves. The Japanese accepted all the conditions, but requested to keep the Emperor. This was all they still asked. However, this was too much, from the stubborn point of view of "unconditional surrender"...
by Florin
Sun Jan 02, 2005 10:17 am
Forum: Comments and Suggestions
Topic: I am proud to be an American II
Replies: 24
Views: 12535

.................................. It should also be remembered that the US was not primarily in Europe ouit of concern for European interests. It was primarily there for its own interests. It was better that the Cold War front line was in Central Europe than the Central Atlantic. It was also bette...
by Florin
Wed Dec 29, 2004 7:23 pm
Forum: Comments and Suggestions
Topic: I am proud to be an American II
Replies: 24
Views: 12535

Re: I am proud to be an American II

...........WE ...........hate corruption, value honesty, love our kids, value family, willing to help our fellow man, patriotic, brave, proud, democratic, intellectual ........... Usually these are the average qualities of any average citizen of any country of this planet. Maybe with the difference...
by Florin
Fri Dec 24, 2004 7:28 pm
Forum: Comments and Suggestions
Topic: I am proud to be a American
Replies: 97
Views: 41055

Re: I am proud to be a American

How much do you know about the rest of the world? What did you see outside the American borders? . I have never left America and I don't think I would ever want to, unless to serve America. This leads to a question... What is the difference between the average American enjoying his / her ignorance ...