WWII’s Strangest Battle: When Americans and Germans Fought Together

War history Online ^ | January 19, 2014

[Jacob Kell]

I never heard of this until quite recently. Has anyone?

[cloudmountain]

I haven't but then you know Hollyweird: they HATE Germany, Germans and anything remotely German.

Gee, can't imagine why.

[jwalsh07]

Forget Spielberg, this one is right up Mark Wahlberg’s alley. He would do it justice.

[Paladin2]

Nope, never heard this b4.

[BenLurkin]

Should have teamed up and fought the Soviets.

[Jet Jaguar]

Bump.

[bakeneko]

Tarantino, if he realizes by now that he doesn’t need to pad his cool credentials anymore, would do well with this. Inglorious Bastards was actually a pretty good movie.

[max americana]

he couldn’t even get Tony Stark right in the screen tests..

[skinkinthegrass]

aren't there some incidents, where some German soldiers/pilots either ignored/or actually
disobeyed orders to harm/imprison allied soldiers?..not many but they're out there.

[Paladin2]

"The M3 was an American .45-caliber submachine gun adopted for U.S. Army service on 12 December 1942, as the United States Submachine Gun, Cal. .45, M3.[5] Compared to the Thompson submachine gun, the M3 was cheaper to produce, lighter, more accurate, and was also chambered in .45 ACP."

Never seen this one before either..

[lavaroise]

They do like to make black girls drive those Hitler jeeps from VW at holyweird in many of their movies.

[bravo whiskey]

never seen one? we had 2 per tank in my unit in germany in 1975

[DuncanWaring]

Ye Olde Pub.

[Paladin2]

That one needs a better PR agent.

It's a whole new "Cowboy" action event (1911 & M3).

[cloudmountain]

They do like to make black girls drive those Hitler jeeps from VW at holyweird in many of their movies.\

There were no blacks to speak of. ONCE IN A WHILE, there would be some African blood that snuck in but it was very rare. If I saw two black Saudis in FIVE long years that would be a lot. I can only remember one. And we could see the skin on their hands so color was obvious.
The Saudis are brown to white-white, lots of mixtures of middle eastern browns to white-white. No black.
Hollywood is fantasy. I learned JUST how fantasy there were when I saw WITH MY OWN EYES, what lies I learned from good ole Hollywood.

I kept waiting for Lawrence of Arabia and Omar Shariff to come by on camels....no such luck. They all drove Fords, especially pick-ups. We saw them load their sheep and goats on the back and drive away.
By the way, their sheep have these HUGE triangle shaped tails. WEIRDEST thing I ever saw.

Also, all the camels they use are females. The male camels are too unpredictable, noisy, mean and nasty.

Hubby and I went down to the Red Sea port of Yanbu and also saw the camel races. But, that's another story!

[eartrumpet]

A friend had one in his tank recovery vehicle in the Gulf War.

[Southack]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3018686/posts

[dfwgator]

Tarantino, if he realizes by now that he doesn’t need to pad his cool credentials anymore, would do well with this. Inglorious Bastards was actually a pretty good movie.

He could resurrect Hugo Stiglitz.

[skinkinthegrass]

"I haven't but then you know Hollyweird: they
HATE Germany..Gee, can't imagine why.that's easy; until June 22, 1941(Operation Barberosa) NAZI Germany
& Soviets were "great buddies" after that they're were fierce enemies.
as you know, neither country had any use for the western
democracies, except financial/technical aid (the soviet).

[Argus]

That’s the “grease gun”, no?