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- Tue Nov 28, 2006 11:36 am
- Forum: The Allies in WWII
- Topic: British feelers to Germany
- Replies: 128
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Germany war aims were, at least since Summer 1941, a nightmare of exterminations camps. Britain's one were a paradise of plunderage and undervelopment. Two different kinds of crimes, of course, but both crimes. Bye EC PS Egypt was yet defended by the Western Desert and had to face a defensive role o...
- Tue Nov 28, 2006 11:29 am
- Forum: The Allies in WWII
- Topic: British feelers to Germany
- Replies: 128
- Views: 46030
I agree that Italy's policy (a legitimate one, at least according the fashion of the last 35 centuries) was an aggressive one trying to seize, both in the Risorgimento, the Liberal and the Fascist times, any opportunity to increase the Kingsom borders and, above all, economical chances. But it was a...
- Tue Nov 28, 2006 11:21 am
- Forum: The Allies in WWII
- Topic: British feelers to Germany
- Replies: 128
- Views: 46030
- Tue Nov 28, 2006 11:15 am
- Forum: The Allies in WWII
- Topic: British feelers to Germany
- Replies: 128
- Views: 46030
The Danzig crisis stopped the program, but after a typical wait and see phase, Britian come back to the same war path with the total naval blockade to coal shipments to Italy since 1 March 1940. There was a chance for peace (John Lukacs, Five days in London, May 1940) by Churchill but at least the o...
- Tue Nov 28, 2006 10:45 am
- Forum: The Allies in WWII
- Topic: British feelers to Germany
- Replies: 128
- Views: 46030
Hello Sid, take it easy, please. If anything which doesn't fix with your onw schemes are preconceived ideas any scientific debate would be quite difficoult indeed. Any government studies different and, sometimes, opposite choices, and maybe prefers to save for the archives only the memorandum which ...
- Mon Nov 27, 2006 11:46 am
- Forum: The Allies in WWII
- Topic: British feelers to Germany
- Replies: 128
- Views: 46030
- Fri Nov 24, 2006 11:49 pm
- Forum: The Allies in WWII
- Topic: American Troop Jewish Company - Shanghai 3 Sept. 1939
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2035
American Troop Jewish Company - Shanghai 3 Sept. 1939
Hello Gentlemen, I was able to find on http://home.adelphia.net a detailed order of battle of the British Army on 3 Sept. 1939 in the colonies and mandates. I discovered the existence of an "American Troop Jewish Company in Shanghai. What the hell was this Company, the last members of Benedict ...
- Fri Nov 24, 2006 12:13 pm
- Forum: Kriegsmarine
- Topic: E-Boats v PT Boats
- Replies: 37
- Views: 33582
- Wed Nov 22, 2006 2:25 pm
- Forum: Soldatenheim
- Topic: Airfix in receivership??
- Replies: 81
- Views: 20000
- Wed Nov 22, 2006 10:20 am
- Forum: Kriegsmarine
- Topic: E-Boats v PT Boats
- Replies: 37
- Views: 33582
Hi Dave, I confirm it's the forst time I know about a UN PT action on that night in Sicilian waters. I'm puzzled they had to be German S boats, as the Italian motosiluranti were patrolling north of the Strait and the German ones south. As no Italian action is recorded that time are you sure those sa...
- Tue Nov 21, 2006 12:54 pm
- Forum: Soldatenheim
- Topic: Airfix in receivership??
- Replies: 81
- Views: 20000
Hello Gentlemen, I'm impressed to see how many among us grew with Airfix. Later enterprises did, sometime, better toy soldiers, but my hearth belongs still with the first version of the Sixties. The Afrika Korps original type, the Infantry Combat Group, gee! I lose them (I had more than fifty boxes,...
- Sun Nov 19, 2006 10:08 am
- Forum: The Allies in WWII
- Topic: Juba River, Somaliland, Feb. 1941
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5850
- Sat Nov 18, 2006 4:28 pm
- Forum: Kriegsmarine
- Topic: E-Boats v PT Boats
- Replies: 37
- Views: 33582
Hello Dave, I did't know about a clash between USN and German MTBs off SAicily in Aug. 1943. May you add some details (date, position, ect.)? I know about an encounter on 28/29 July 1943 night between PT 203, 214 and 218 off Capo d'Orlando (Sicily north coast) and the Italian MS 21, 53, 65 and 66 wh...
- Sat Nov 18, 2006 10:20 am
- Forum: The Allies in WWII
- Topic: British feelers to Germany
- Replies: 128
- Views: 46030
Hi Sid, Mussolini had war aims against Britain, of course, but this was typical of any Italian premier since 1861 (that same year there was the first big clash, in greece, between the just born kingdom of Italy, supporting the Hellenic King, and UK, which at least overthorw him changing that client ...
- Sat Nov 18, 2006 6:39 am
- Forum: The Allies in WWII
- Topic: British feelers to Germany
- Replies: 128
- Views: 46030