General Winter won.
Great post.
The WWI museum at the Somme shows several varieties of german and Allied “portable” armored shields ... and several have been shot through. The high-speed bullets were just too powerful.
Even “tank” armor on the early WWII light tanks could be pierced by large rifle and machine gun bullets.
Hell of an idea though & kept a few factory workers busy making them. Those Finns were just too stupid to understand they would be defeated by an overwhelming force.
president ubama and perhaps Mrs. Clinton, will strangle our military with ideas as equally silly.
If Mrs. Clinton was able to so easily kill a number of good folks as Secretary of State, think what she can do as POTUS. It should scare us all.
Oldplayer
president ubama and perhaps Mrs. Clinton, will strangle our military with ideas as equally silly.
If Mrs. Clinton was able to so easily kill a number of good folks as Secretary of State, think what she can do as POTUS. It should scare us all.
Oldplayer
Yep...WW1 stuff.
The Finns and the Poles are inspirations for defiance in the face of overwheling odds. I only hope those guts haven’t been bred out of them like so many other Europeans.
When I was in elementary school our area didn’t have those nuke drills the rest of the country had. In 5th grade during “social studies” class another student asked why we didn’t have those. Teacher told us it was because we were within 20 miles of the largest army post in the western hemisphere and it would be one of the first targets. We did not have a chance of surviving.
That pretty much freaked me out so that night I brought it up at our supper table. My daddy told us about the winter war that night. (I learned a lot of the best history from my daddy at the supper table.) Since the social studies class in school was requiring some kind of report about communist Russia I decided to write about that war.
It is Texas and my teacher was what I considered an old lady at the time. There was no liberal crap taught in that classroom. She did talk about my report to the rest of the class, telling all that the Finn’s were an example to how our mindset should be in fighting commies. Use every sneaky weapon both mental and physical against them, bring out all age groups, men and women, but they must be defeated.
These days I shudder to think what Mrs. Brown would think of her own country.
One Red Army General stated after the armistice was signed; they had conquered just enough of Finland to bury their dead.
Stalin killing off his best generals got a lot of Soviet soldiers killed.