Posted on 08/07/2017 4:35:31 AM PDT by Kaslin
I like your part about Americans and Brits. The more time goes by the more I like the Brits because I realize more and more how much of our basic outlook came from them. Just have an increasing sense of the heritage.
Well, 300,000 troops is quite a lot of men to toss away in the event you have to fight another battle. I never was a fan of Churchill. He always seemed ready to sacrifice someone else to achieve his objectives.
He planned or at least supported the disastrous Gallipoli Campaign.
When asked how many American soldiers he needed, the response was “Just one and I will be certain to put him someplace where he will be shot.”
Read “Soldier of the Empire” about him in the Boer War. Brave, to be sure but less than an admirable character.
Finally, there is that rumor that keeps percolating out there that he and FDR engineered the Lusitania incident deliberately to kill American civilians to get into WW2.
Churchill had his strongpoints and he probably helped win WW2, but there is no denying he had a very, vary dark side.
And I know, war is war, but even in war there are some limits.
I just knew nothing about Dunkirk and was surprised about the comments about the air cover, but a search of the Net indicated what others have stated - there was RAF air cover, there where lots of German and British air losses and the film was not accurate in this respect.
And I still stand by my assertion that the film negatively presented the British troops there. Brits are brave men and centering it around one coward - the guy they picked up at sea, was unfair.
I think the battle WAS inspiring, but I felt that the movie did not adequately reflect that.
I bought another movie on Dunkirk that came out last year - another British production and I want to watch it to compare it to this one, as well as do some reading on the event.
I tend to avoid World War II as it really was so very very aweful.
Didn’t like the emphasis on the guy the guy they picked up at sea. Didn’t like the little vignette with the French soldier in the sinking ship. Liked the air combat with the spitfire.
Check out the resources on the net about the air battle over Dunkirk. The film was misleading.
A British vet of Dunkirk saw it recently and said it was accurate.
Lusitania?
Wrong war
We get it you loves you some Churchill hate bra lol
I know the Lusitania was WW1, BRO. And I am not black, smart @$$.
Churchill was Lord of the Admiralty in WW1 and his buddy FDR was Assistant Secretary of the Navy. The two of them conspired to have civilians on the Lusitania, the civilian passenger ship packed with munitions in violation of blockade rules, escorted into U-Boat infested waters, abandoned by British destroyers, and information about the munitions leaked to the Germans.
I said bra not bro
That’s surfer dude talk
The province of peckerwoods and slopes
So be nice
I don’t think I have ever seen it. I’ll add the DVD to my Christmas list.
Didn’t realize there was a surf in Tennessee.
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