Posted on 06/10/2018 1:39:20 PM PDT by Ennis85
French underground may have helped delay Das Reich, but there was NO battle with the French resistance that "battered" Das Reich. Usually the French resistance was "battered" which makes sense since the French were poorly armed with no heavy weapons. For instance at the village of Le Port and at Rouffilac, Das Reich quickly swept aside the French resistance. It was the US air force strafing anything that moved that battered Das Reich.
"Fighter bomber were essential to the success, disrupting german troops everywehere. Here P-47 attacking a german convoy." https://www.avialogs.com/index.php/avialogs/d-day-from-the-air.htm
I'm pretty sure everything you said here is an old wives tale and not factually true.
"Women can go longer without sleep"...before they burst out crying and melt into a puddle on the floor maybe?
Sorry, my experience precludes me from buying what you are selling.
What do you not understand about the difference between action taken by the resistance in JUNE, 1944 versus action taken by the “ US Air Force” in AUGUST of that year? By the way, the US Air Force did not exist at that time. It was the ARMY Air Corps and did not become an independent Military Force until President Truman signed the papers creating the US Air Force , Sept. 18, 1947, over two years AFTER the war ended.
It was a “running battle” from the time Das Reich left Montaubahn until it arrived in Normandy. Montaubahn is near Toulouse in the Southwest Department of Tarn-et-Garonne.
Of note also to some is the fact that the Mona Lisa, smuggled out of Paris, spent part of the war hidden in a wine cellar in Montaubahn under the noses of the Germans. It was never discovered.
An excellent research museum specializing in the Resistance and Deportation is also located in Montaubahn.
Also of note is the fact that the bombardment of the Normandy coast by the Air Corps prior to the landings on June 6th were ineffectual as they overshot the target by several miles. Most of the casualties of the bombing were French civilians.
Perhaps you are the victim of the “Barbie Dolls” so prevalent today.
Ignore historical fact at your own peril.
You wouldn’t recognize historical fact if it hit you on the head.
Your ignorant dismissal of fact is truly revealing. Obviously you are simply a joy stick militarist. You don’t even know anything about the places I am talking about, let alone what really occurred there in the war years.
Calling me names doesn’t do anything but show your childishness. You repeatedly try to denigrate me. It won’t work.
So is this video game giving women manufacturing roles? Man if I wanted to play that I might as well just work the job instead.
IMO Video games are an addiction that people do to waste time.
The Air Force had female clerks and supply sergeants...
One of my TIs in Basic had served in Vietnam...
I was told when I went to Basic that only women who were at least an E-4 sergeant would be sent...
By the time I was that rank they were no longer sending women...
However several squadrons of E-1 young men went from Basic to Nam ...
Hmmmmmmmmmm
Theres a whole lot of men living in the cold climes where I refuse to go...I hate the cold ...I like it warm...
I need my sleep...lots of it...
Pain ??? Who said ??? Men don’t have babies but I know of a lot of women who screamed and acted like fools regards of the level of “pain”
Our bodies have the same need for water...
Endurance ??? Its not the men who compare their operations...
If you don’t like the cold you have missed a lot of fun. etc. etc.etc.
If you wish to side with the men on this thread who believe women do not deserve recognition for their acts of bravery in the past, just say so.
How do you know they were “brave”
Kid I’m 70...
when I was young it was considered brave of a female to murder her baby through abortion...
Hillary Clinton is considered brave”
Sandra flake is considered “brave”
Michelle Obama is considered “brave”
Samantha Bee is considered “brave”
People who arrange their own “assisted suicide” AKA euthanasia are deemed “brave”
Homosexuals who claim to be females are called “brave”
Who’s idea of “brave” do you demand I agree with ???
You insist I take up sides with you against the men or else ???
How Hillaryesque and sexist of you...
Kid I’m over 80! So, kid, my definition of Brave is different than yours simply because I am from the 50’s and you are from the 60’s when all the things you listed became the ideals of the “feminists.” I am NOT a “feminist” and detest the hoards of lame brained me too idiots who inspire the destruction of women. I am from what used to be called “Frontier stock” in that I fight my own battles and achieve my own goals through my own personal efforts and sacrifice. I ask no quarter and I give none.I do not depend on others to think for me. I am independent and like it that way. My children and grandchildren are patriots of the first order. They do not belong to the nut-job set.
Brave is defined by the actions one takes in dangerous situations. Brave is the opposite of coward. Coward seems to be the desired classification of far too many today. “Be nice. Don’t be mean” seems to be the teaching of barbie doll mothers today.
My Mother and Father were born a hundred years ago in the Florida wilderness. My Father served in the 208th Engineer Combat Battalion. He was in real combat.
My Mother was the best person I ever knew. She was kind, Gentle and Loving. I don’t know you but I would bet my Mother could have given you lessons on toughness.
She did not do anything special in the war. She took care of their 4 children. I was born after the war.
Let me just say that military ranks from any era can be researched on the internet.
In WWII, they did not use the modern rank structure, and sergeant was the 4th rank because there were only 2 private ranks, not three as there are now. The practice of calling them “E-#” did not exist, as there was a different nomenclature at the time.
Thus, I am correct in saying that E-4 has always been corporal or specialist, and E-5 a sergeant. I think you are remembering a time that predates the modern rank structure, before “E” ranks and the addition of a third private rank.
Your FIRST comment out the gate starts with name calling.
“You are a first class jerk!”
So you lose the ability to criticize me for “name calling”.
I spent 8 years in the AF. 4 in a flying assignment in a fighter squadron as their flight surgeon. I’m intimately aware of the physiological and mental requirements of military service. I’ve since worked with every branch of the military except for the Coast Guard. I currently work at Ft Bragg.
“While the numbers of women were inferior to the numbers of front line troops”
Inferior? Can you count at all? There were hundreds of millions of men in the military in WW2.
Your “facts” are wild anecdotes that you spew in an attempt to justify a bizarre position that women were a significant component to combat in the Second World War. That’s a lie. Period. A handful of women were involved in combat. Period. If none of them had been involved nothing substantive would have changed. Period.
The fact, again, is that over 99.9% of the actual fighting and dying in the Second World War was done by the men. That sweetie is a fact.
The topic was a video game where the SJW crowd are busy re writing history to emphasize Grrll Power! That’s a fantasy.
LOL. About 15-20% were women, and most of those never pick up a weapon let alone swung a robot arm with a barb wire spiked club....
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