This is a well established tradition among allied troops and sailors. Read William Manchester's wonderful book ''Goddbye Darbness '' about...
iN 1989 aMERICAN ACTOR Willem Dafoe starred in the movie ''TIUMPH OF THE SPIRIT'' about the Macedonian Jewish boxer Salman Arusch who survived...
U.S.RANGERS TRAINED AT THE BRITISH COMMANDO training camp in Spean Bridge in the Scottish Highlands in 1942 were atached to convential Canadian...
HOW CAN YOU HAVE A ''POLICY'' for something as unpredictable as ''friendly fire'' incidents which occur in most wars -witness ''Stonewall''...
WITH BENEFIT OF HINDSIGHT I can't get too upset about these British S.S. men as they contributed little to the Nazi war effort unless you count...
Many thanks for your greetings of welcome Krystal 80 and Mountainhunter/Gebirgjaegaer.
Like my old Wyoming buddy Harolds I'm a refugee from a forum that is about to become history itself but Inow that there are qite a few people from...
I also hope that they have invited Coastal Command's only surviving Victoria Cross winner-James Cruickshank V.C. there.Although he now lives in...
I agree Urqh-I have absolutely no sympathy or even patience whatsover with the politically correct morons-most of whom weren't even born when WW2...
Talking of a 9.2 inch shell in the Firth of Forth in 1941, a practice 9.2 shell was mistakenly fired towards the port of Leith from the Inchkeith...
Then there was the guy, I'm. proud to say, attended the same Edimburgh, Scotland, High School as I did and became the only British Royal Marine in...
Yes poor Ted!-but his silly and ignorant view that ''England''was fighting alone in WW2-England hasn't fought a war on her own since 1707- is only...
And yet, J.P. if you visit Fort William deep in the Scottish Highlands you will find a solid granite stone in the central park of that town...
What never happened?- the Jap behaviour in Nanking, China was so bad that even A GERMAN NAZI diplomat was so shocked with what he witnessed there...
Yes and Kai don't forget that the Soviets allowed the Weimar Republic Reichswehr to flaunt the Treaty of Versailles viz tanks by training secretly...
Sloinskip -Whci history books do you read?-''England has never been at war with Germany in its entire history-only the United Kingdom-England,...
Sloniskip-the stuff you quoted was clearly by some revisionist clown!-without help from the U.S.A.- between 1939-41 especially- we British could...
Hey Marne-I too love the song you quoted which we sang as kids in Scotland to the ''Colonel Bogey March'' however, as Goebbels had -I think five...
Hello Sapper!-great post!. Yes, in 1961-aged 19- I made my very first visit to London, England, from Scotland to watch the then annual Scotland v...
Yes Number 9, but didn't a bunch of stroppy Jocks mutiny in the middle of the near debacle at Salerno as described by Major Hugh Pond in his 1961...
