They certainly won this battle. ;)
Posted on 07/22/2017 9:06:51 AM PDT by BenLurkin
My great-uncle was with the 38th Battalion Canadian Expeditionary Forces in WWI, and fought at the Battle of Drocourt–Quéant Line. He was wounded on September 2, 1918 while crossing the Arras-Cambrai Road, near the village of Dury, while advancing on the line. He was shot in the body by a German machine gun, and died of his wounds on September 8, 1918. He's buried in Terlincthun British Cemetery near Boulogne, France.
Pas de nouveau cette merde....
This old chestnut again?
The photo is of a crowd watching French troops embarking for overseas French territories and taking famous regimental colors with them to prevent their capture.
<< Why wasn’t the “Great French Republic” defended to the bitter end and then some by it’s citizens? >:(>>
Lessee....
*The specter of four years of bloodshed over twenty years earlier—a good bit of it for nothing—loomed heavily over France’s politics and culture for decades. They began rearming in 1938-39, but unlike the US they had not spent years preparing their industries for the job, and it was a classic case of too little, too late.
*Communists...lots of Communists. Seriously. At the time of the invasion, Stalin and Hitler were still buddies. So guess who the French Communists tacitly backed via industrial sabotage?
*The people as a whole thought France’s “democratic” government was a tad weak.
*The merchant class feared Bolshevism more than the Germans.
*The French officer corps was so conservative (Old World speaking) as to be almost monarchic in their leanings. They weren’t too thrilled about the existing government either. And the top generals were still stuck on the previous war, both in terms of tactics and refusing to recognize that time and technology had moved on from 1918.
All that said, the French sustained casualties of well over 100,000 in the weeks from invasion to surrender. That’s not cutting and running, that’s standing and dying while being out-thought and out-fought.
Worth watching...politics aside, this is really good television:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Un_village_fran%C3%A7ais
yeah the Battle of Britain movie is one of my favorite I actually saw it when it first came out in the theaters had my dad take me
I just watched it again on TV the other day
They certainly won this battle. ;)
They weren’t left out of the movie. They are shown holding the town and at the end they were being evacuated.
There were French.
There were Blacks.
There were women.
All in a story centered around about two dozen English soldiers and civilians.
That’s not a funny meme.
It wasn’t the son that was wounded in the small yacht, but a friend of the son’s. I thought it was great and highly recommend it.
Wow, I haven’t thought of that show in almost thirty years.
I remember some plot point about a famous painting being smuggled about, called the “Fallen Madonna with the Big B**bies”....
(Yes, really. This is a Britcom, after all.)
The French General asked why the British soldiers wore red uniforms. He was explained, it was red because that way if a soldier was bleeding, other soldiers would not notice and panic. The French General promptly order khaki colors for French soldiers.
According to some records Coltitz was under orders from Hitler to burn the city to the ground rather than surrender it to the Allies. Parisians begged him to ignore the order. He surrendered to the Allies without following Hitler’s express orders.
Ironically, it was the French government’s insistence on red pants for their troops (along with a nice shiny brass belt buckle front-and-center) that helped them lose over 500,000 troops in six months in 1914.
There's also "Generation War" (German Title: Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter)
The speaker wasn’t Churchill.
He wasn’t referenced other than 10 seconds at the conclusion of the show...
Disappointed. Thanks for saving me the price of admission.
On a good note HACKSAW RIDGE is on HBO tonight.
I saw only 1 movie in last 15 years, which was by Dinesh D’Souza about Hillary. As one who arrived here at age 20, I never had the opportunity to learn much American History, but learned a lot in that movie.
I do not like Hollywood culture, so I refuse to subsidize them.
I never said he was the speaker I said they stated his speech.
France defaults on their WWI war debt with the US in 1932. Hitler comes to power in 1933.
They then fall under the Johnson Act prohibiting them from selling war bonds in the US. There are also some Neutrality Acts keeping them from buying armaments.
By the time this is all untangled (The French trade bases in the Caribbean to be able to sell bonds) and the American factories are tooled, the Germans are on the march.
Much of the material they bought ended up going to the Brits.
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