Posted on 07/23/2017 3:18:02 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
When did the lend-lease Act start with England? Was it right after this?
Anybody know?
Bkmk
I thought it looked low budget since there were supposed to be 400,000 people on the beach but it looked like 10,000. Battle scenes in Lord of the Rings were more epic, and this should have been epic, especially since it was real. Also, as I recall, the number of boats was so many it blotted out the horizen. In the movie, it looked like a few hundred. It was disjointed and took effort to see where one strand led to another. Parts were inspring—I liked the fighter pilot and the captain of the small boat. Although I normally don’t care about the French, I would have liked to see parts that showed them holding off the Germans so the soldiers could get away. It was indeed a fine moment for them, perhaps their last.
I enjoyed it, but it was not near as good as Saving Private Ryan or Flags of our Fathers.
Most people don’t understand just how much material we sent the Soviets. It was just simply incredible, it wasn’t just a few planes and tanks. Virtually all of their trucks came from Detroit so they could concentrate on building tanks, massive amount of food, all sorts of strategic materials in large quantities, the list just goes on and on.
I think Hitler like Britain and hoped to negotiate a truce with them so he could go after Russia. If he wiped out 400,000 people on the beach, it would have been difficult to make peace. With hindsight, it was a mistake on Hitler’s part, but thank God he made lots of mistakes.
Another mistake was thinking the Italians would take care of North Africa without German assistance.
They have already started selling it off.
They don’t need it anymore.
There is an immense amount of oil available because of fracking.
The permian basin alone has as much oil available via fracking as saudi arabia biggest oil fields.
But England had a very long history of preventing European unification. And good reasons for that policy.
So I think the US public was his primary concern, British feeling a secondary one (and we were the power to fear if the isolationists here didn’t prevail).
Though I’m no scholar on the time.
Stalin and Khrushchev disagree with you.
Mussolini’s invading Greece was a fiasco too.
Like I said, Mussolini was the best “Ally” we had.
i think the point was he knew he would not get back home and stayed anyway to defend
haha
Haunting.....
I got that point from the movie. Thanks anyway.
“If that invasion starts earlier Moscow falls.”
Soviets fall back to the Urals, the war is extended beyond 1945 and Berlin gets a visit from a Fat Man.
When Churchill heard Italy joined the Axis he said, “It’s only fair, we had them last time!”
“There are so many decisions that “cost him the war” it’s really difficult to find just one.”
dozens. and if any ONE had been different he probably would have been able to fight at least until stalemate.
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