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Convoy of carnage: A heroic British flotilla planned to save Malta from starvation in 1942... but U-boats were ready to pick off our ships like sitting ducks, writes MAX HASTINGS in one of the most dramatic forgotten chapters of the war
UK Daily Mail ^
| April 30, 2021
| Max Hastings
Posted on 05/01/2021 4:31:50 AM PDT by C19fan
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posted on
05/01/2021 4:31:50 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
Sadly... All the chapters of World War 2 have are being forgotten. I talked with a young woman in her 30s the other day... She didn’t know who Winston Churchill was. It’s depressing to discover that todays youth are not being educated about history.
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posted on
05/01/2021 4:40:58 AM PDT
by
jerod
(Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
To: C19fan; Army Air Corps
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posted on
05/01/2021 4:41:05 AM PDT
by
KC_Lion
To: jerod
My parish priest is from Malta and speaks of this often. St. George Cross was awarded to the people of Malta for their courageous stand against Nazi Germany.
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posted on
05/01/2021 4:44:33 AM PDT
by
mware
(RETIRED)
To: C19fan
To: jerod
Oh, that is very sad.
God blessed the Allies with so many, many brave men.
RIP, heroes.
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posted on
05/01/2021 5:42:24 AM PDT
by
Bigg Red
(Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
To: jerod
That is how you make a culture disappear...
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posted on
05/01/2021 5:42:40 AM PDT
by
kearnyirish2
(Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
To: C19fan
Thanks for posting - lost an uncle there.
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posted on
05/01/2021 5:51:32 AM PDT
by
tje
To: C19fan
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posted on
05/01/2021 6:04:48 AM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: C19fan
To: C19fan
There was already a very good book on this celebrating the two Americans who basically brought in the last ship more or less by themselves.
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posted on
05/01/2021 6:43:26 AM PDT
by
LS
("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix) )
To: jerod
And this is the reason the Republic is lost. New generations that have no idea what it is all about and what happens if it is lost.
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posted on
05/01/2021 10:43:50 AM PDT
by
Sequoyah101
(Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.)
To: jerod
Go to You Tube every Saturday night and watch Indy Neidell’s “WW2 Week By Week’’ series.
He does an excellent job presenting WW2 literally week by week.
He previously did a week by week series on WW1.
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posted on
05/01/2021 9:19:42 PM PDT
by
jmacusa
(The result of conformity is everyone will like you but yourself.)
To: C19fan
The Allied (mostly British) forces sent a lot of Axis ships and men to their ends, too.
In a way, this part of the war was ultimately all about the Axis (mostly the Germans) need for oil.
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posted on
05/02/2021 12:08:33 AM PDT
by
Paul R.
(You know your pullets are dumb if they don't recognize a half Whopper as food!)
To: jmacusa
Thanks for the suggestion.
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posted on
05/02/2021 2:05:51 PM PDT
by
jerod
(Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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