yngwies Cat 2:51 Thu Sep 15
Battle of Britain day
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Will be raising a glass to the few tonight.
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Northern Sold
2:12 Fri Sep 16
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Lovely girl Cough son... but the chaps do spoil her...
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SurfaceAgentX2Zero
2:11 Fri Sep 16
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Eddie B 10:09 Fri Sep 16
I agree. I was just making the point to shut up that idiot Antly
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Far Cough
2:02 Fri Sep 16
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Michael Caine's dog?
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Northern Sold
2:00 Fri Sep 16
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.. and the Black Labradors Cough son... the dog of choice of the RAF
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Far Cough
1:46 Fri Sep 16
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Lets not get onto Bomber Harris on this thread, lets talk about Hugh Dowding and Keith Park who were the real architects in the success of the BoB
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Westside
1:36 Fri Sep 16
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Sir Arthur 'Bomber' Harris. To be fair to him, he more than backed up his words with actions.
Which unfortunately led to a loss rate (killed) of nearly 45%, amongst the brave Bomber Command crews.
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Northern Sold
12:49 Fri Sep 16
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Yu was LAZY Eddie... LAZY
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Eddie B
12:41 Fri Sep 16
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I paraphrased his words.
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Eddie B
12:38 Fri Sep 16
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Sir Arthur 'Bomber' Harris. To be fair to him, he more than backed up his words with actions.
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Northern Sold
12:18 Fri Sep 16
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Get it right Eddie you sap... the actual quote was...
The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw, and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind.
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Westside
12:15 Fri Sep 16
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People often do Churchill a dis service and ignore his early (pre wars) domestic political career. A major driving force in improving things for the poor, including the first knockings of a welfare statate.
http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198206262.001.0001/acprof-9780198206262-chapter-5
If you go to the Cabinet War Rooms and Churchill Museum, this early part of his career is well documented, with excellent audio visuals.
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Eddie B
10:09 Fri Sep 16
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You reap what you sow.
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SurfaceAgentX2Zero
1:36 Fri Sep 16
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It's good though that you absolve Churchill of all blame for the strategic air war against Germany in general and Dresden in particular. Or were they not military matters?
Don't tell me, the Jewes are the men that will not be blamed'. Or something.
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Ronald_antly
1:30 Fri Sep 16
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Oh look, it's Mister SNOOZE.
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SurfaceAgentX2Zero
1:27 Fri Sep 16
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Ronald_antly 12:02 Fri Sep 16
'Military decisions of any note were made by the MILITARY.'
Erm... no they weren't.
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Ronald_antly
1:03 Fri Sep 16
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So says you.
Because you were there, weren't you.
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Pedant
1:00 Fri Sep 16
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Erm, no.
He overruled the military many times - and for that matter ordered them to carry actions they weren't too keen on (such as the attack on the French fleet at Oran). Also, of course, he chose the generals.
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stomper
12:40 Fri Sep 16
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He was obsessed by the idea of the 'soft underbelly of Europe' which fucked up royally in both World Wars
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Ronald_antly
12:02 Fri Sep 16
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Agreed, deffers.
He WAS a cunt of a man.
He may also have been a good frontman but I think it's nonsense to suggest that without him Britain was fucked.
Military decisions of any note were made by the MILITARY.
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defjam
11:05 Thu Sep 15
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FC - It's exactly that, no one else could have done it.
A great leader but a cunt of a man.
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Far Cough
11:04 Thu Sep 15
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He was a cunt in many ways but what a leader in a time of crisis, I can't think of anyone at the time who would have done better?
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