That's the most idiotic statement I've read on this particular board! WTF do the RAF and Bomber Harris have to do with the first Americans to reach Europe and enter into combat?
If you are complaining about who practiced precision daylight bombing during World War II, you are obviously completely ignorant of the fact that the British only practiced night area or carpet bombing of targets on the German-occupied European mainland from just about the start of the war because the German fighters exacted what the British considered too high a casualty rate on them. The Americans were not only the only Allied Air Forces who practiced precision daylight bombing, but they suffered those higher losses, and many lost their own lives, to minimize the collateral damage on the civilian populations near the target areas, to include France.
And you should know that the Philippines, the country where I was born, was a US Commonwealth until after World War II, and it was occupied by the Japanese after Franklin Roosevelt decided to abandon that US Territory and the 60,000 US troops defending it, in order to focus on defeating the Germans first. Your precious and ungrateful French ass was liberated from the Germans, largely by US troops, before my family was liberated from the Japanese because of Roosevelt's decisions.
Who do we talk to about giving France back to the Germans? :-P
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nickm2
11 years ago
Tom, give the incoherent 'froggy' a break. I'm inclined that either he's "funnin' us"(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfZ5HqXKkBA ) or he used some sort of translation software that didn't quite work.
Why can't you wretched prey creatures understand that the Universe doesn't owe you anything!?
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MadTom
11 years ago
Nick:
The best way to judge is to read the guy's posting history. He doesn't sound like he's "funnin us" but is some brainwashed and probably communist-indoctrinated American-hating idealogue. Sounds a lot like this British guy (who I won't name) whom you and I have both had exchanges with on boards for other WWII-related movies and miniseries, only the Brit has the added hypocrisy of claiming that he likes America and Americans. (Betty Grable! Nice gams! Betty Boop! What a dish! Go fly a kite! Cat got your tongue?)
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nickm2
11 years ago
Hmmmmm....I get along OK with a British Fella especially well informed on Great White Sharks and Dubya Dubya Too.
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Owen-13
11 years ago
I am a bit shocked that the original poster apparently can't even read his own post to see that nothing in the body follows from the first statement at all.
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nickm2
11 years ago
I simply could make no sense out of it--so I assumed it was run though one of those translation software programs...
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smokehill retrievers
11 years ago
The froggie is obvously a fool, or just can't read English well --
but it occurs to me that the inro might not be quite accurate. It may not be considering the OSS troops that were probably aready behind the lines in France, albeit NOT in American uniforms.
I'd have to do some checking to make sure, but I believe we did have some OSS guys in there in 1942.
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