Posted on 08/30/2025 12:49:47 PM PDT by johnnygeneric
“Where are your horses?”
“In the engines, Jerry!”
Did you look at the site?
The Rheinwiesenlager were run by the Americans, not the British. General Eisenhower changed the classification of the German prisoners from "Prisoners of War" to "Disarmed Enemy Forces"; because of this classification, the Americans then denied the Germans basic necessities granted POWs by the Geneva Convention.
(If the information provided on the site is incorrect, show me where. However, if the information upsets you because of your preconceived sentiments about the "greatest generation", I can't help you with that.)
You are counting numbers of infantry killed, there was much more going on than that, for instance for part of that war my father’s ship was fighting Germany out of Brazil.
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Not to mention the 8th air force lost more men killed over Europe than the combined Marine Corps and navy loses in the entire war.
French too? There’s a fleur-de-lis on the city flag of Florence, SC.
I have also read that some German officers knew they were going to lose the war when they saw Americans near the front lines eating cake. They realized that the immense logistical task of baking thousands of cakes, shipping them across the Atlantic, trucking them to the front lines, and serving the to soldiers, relatively often, meant that we had huge logistical capability and organization, which, they realized, would also be equally able to deliver men, weapons, fuel, materiel, ammunition, etc.
I miss Norm.
I think this was a scene from "The Longest Day".
85,000 T-34s, 35,000 IL-2 Stormoviks, at least another 20,000 fighters. And yeah, we did need them. It’s insane to think that if one of them took the whole continent, when we could walk in and take them down.
7 out of 9 Germans died fighting the Red Army.
We made there right move and though terrible. We avoided ten times the losses we would have had.
D-Day and the 8th Air Force effort would have been impossible if the Red Army of 1945 or a victorious Nazi army held everything from France to Vladivostok.
But thanks for playing.
[I have also read that some German officers knew they were going to lose the war when they saw Americans near the front lines eating cake. They realized that the immense logistical task of baking thousands of cakes, shipping them across the Atlantic, trucking them to the front lines, and serving the to soldiers, relatively often, meant that we had huge logistical capability and organization, which, they realized, would also be equally able to deliver men, weapons, fuel, materiel, ammunition, etc.]
Stating the obvious:
Well DUH! We had the BEST of you!
Ironically, we now emulate the worst of you and struggle to retain our identity as your home country demonstrates that after 2 World Wars its leadership caste has learned NOTHING.
My uncle, who landed at Normandy and Sicily, and was at the Battle of the Bulge from beginning to end, probably would disagree with you.
“We fought them in North Africa. But really, we didn’t do that much. Roughly 70–80% of all German military casualties occurred on the Eastern Front.”
Unreal. Try North Africa, Sicily. Italy, southern France, Norway, the North Atlantic, northern France and then pushing into Germany. We fed and gave incredible amounts of ammo to the Red army. That 7 of 9 is true. But we were the prime mover. And the entire time the US Navy was locked in a death match with the German navy. The 8th Air Force wrecked their industrial base and diverted fighters and flak desperately needed on the eastern front to face us.
It’s foolish to minimize the efforts of our military against Germany.
Also airplanes, small arms, and ammunition. And we lost a lot of ships and a lot of men in the process. (Neo)Soviet propaganda glosses over all of that inconvenient truth.
We need to bring the Arsenal of Democracy back to America.
And soon.
I thought it was from Battle of the Bulge because the cake was either from captured American troops or a location they had just retreated from.
That’s storefront Nazi apologia and myth making designed to make Nazi Germans the victim. The US did not commit deliberate mass murder of the surrendered Nazi army.
We were defeating Germany in a global World War at every level and doing it while defeating all of Germany’s allies, no matter where they were, including the Pacific and all of the oceans and the air, Stalin was merely fighting Germany in a grinding slog from his home land.
In one of those "find your ancestors" shows, Rob Lowe found out that his ancestor from the Revolutionary War was a Hessian captured in Trenton instead of a patriot like he thought.
The athletes from the USSR were all told that all the cities they would visit were fake, and that all the vehicles were actually transported from US city to city for them to see.
In September, 1989 Boris Yeltsin visited the USA and was flown to Huston to visit NASA. Afterwords he was taken to a supermarket where he saw, and verified himself, that any American could walk in to our supermarkets, and as long as they had money, they could buy vast arrays of foods that even the top of the Politburo could not get.
In stories written by his aids who had accompanied him, when flying back to the USSR he started weeping for what their Communism had wrought on the people of the USSR. That was one of the linchpins of the fall of the Soviet Union.
What still find amazing is that while we were cuffing the Krauts around, we were kicking the crap out of the Nips and the Pacific theater was kind of getting the leftovers for the first couple of year of the war to boot.
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