Very Strange Video: American Flag Stuck In Ground Next To Russian Runway At Battle Of Stalingrad ?

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[tpanther]

I got so fed up with my local video store, because they decided it prudent to go with hours convenient to them, not me, so I’ve decided to give netflix a try.

So I’ve selected a boatload of movies and while I’m waiting for a couple of selelctions like Hancock to come out, I’ve got ‘World at War’, all 15 or so discs selected.

I remember watching it on TV back in the late 70’s...I haven’t seen it since and I still remember how excellent it was...so I’m looking forward to it.

Going to offer my son a glimpse into real history, as he surely won’t get such in depth WW2 history in school ANY school.

Funny he’s one year younger now than I was when it came out originally in ‘74.

[dfwgator]

Has there ever been a better narrator than Sir Laurence Olivier in The World at War?

[tpanther]

Not that I know of, and this entire series should be part of the history curriculum in every High School.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Stalin may also have feared that the Americans would learn about Russian tactics and equipment.

It was really a shame. The decision to select the Sherman tank over the much heavier Sheridan was based on what was known about the German order of battle from Battle of France in 1940. Some of what the Germans learned fighting the T-34 was the need to up-armor and the effectiveness of the 88-mm anti-aircraft gun. Had the Americans known that, we probably would have deployed armor and anti-armor weapons that enjoyed the same edge over their German counterparts as the P-47, P-51 and P-38 did over the Me-109 and the FW-190.

On the flip side, Stalin my have feared that the Americans, having seen the Russian Army first hand, would develop contempt for their fighting ability, especially after Finland and disasterous start of the War for the Russians.

[colorado tanker]

I've been looking at whether the 777 AVG was real or not and found your posts. I've also concluded it's a fake. Well, to put a finer point on it, a very nicely done fictional unit for a war game with lots of verisimilitude. But some people seem to have taken this as real history.

Have you picked up any additional info on this since your post?

Another indicator to me is a book cited as telling the history of the 777 is Cobras Over The Tundra, much of which is in Russian, but which is a history of the land ferry from Alaska to Irkutsk to send aircraft to the Sov's. It doesn't seem to have any references to a 777 or any AVG.

[RandallFlagg]

There’s one on the Moon too.


"Oh, you're thinking Mars...I think..."