64 year anniversary

[Shogun Gunner]

Originally posted by Bhruic


How's that?

Everything can be googled.

Bh

/me looks for a Bhruic statue in Germany

[Timmer]

Originally posted by Shogun Gunner


* Shogun Gunner looks for a Bhruic statue in Germany

First off, thanks to Bhruic ! I never knew any of that.
I'd always assumed it was a misforming of "all clear".
Good job !

Second of all, the statue should be sought in Belgium,
not Germany. The stripes on their flag are horizontal.

[Nelis]

OK isn't really an abbreviation.
If you, or anybody, can tell me what O.K. stands
for I'll be greatly impressed and erect a statue
in your honor.

Timmer : OK stands for 0 Killed. During American civil war, the count of dead soldiers was done every day, when nobody get killed the report said 0 Killed (abbreviated to 0.K.).

Later this expression will become O.K. to represent something good.

Where is my statue ? :-)

[Timmer]

Originally posted by Nelis


Timmer : OK stands for 0 Killed. During American civil war, the count of dead soldiers was done every day, when nobody get killed the report said 0 Killed (abbreviated to 0.K.).

Later this expression will become O.K. to represent something good.

Where is my statue ? :-)

OK, that's 2 explanations....

Meanwhile, sorry for the threadjacking.
Now I'm off to turn a review thread into a
discussion of the mating rituals of the fruit fly.

[alva]

Originally posted by Enigma_Nova
It would be cool if Hitler unified Europe then died somehow. Perhaps with a standardised language, the Europeans would have an easier time finding players for video games!

What?! and stoop to the same level as the americans?? I think not.

OK, that's 2 explanations....

Yeah, you should be used to that, still need one for Brussels...

[Nelis]

What explanation for Brussels ?

[alva]

Aren't you from Belgium?
You have two explanations right... one for Flanders, one for the south, so you're still one short for Brussels.

[H Tower]

Originally posted by Diadem
64 years already? That places pearl harbor in '41. Would have sworn it was a bit later. I thought the US didn't get involved in the war until well into '42 or something. But perhaps it was different in Japan.\

December 7th, 1941 The US didn't get involved in the European theater until 1942 because among many other reasons, they had to cross the Atlantic Ocean to get to Europe.

[Stuie]

Originally posted by H Tower

December 7th, 1941 The US didn't get involved in the European theater until 1942 because among many other reasons, they had to cross the Atlantic Ocean to get to Europe.

Right - but the official DOW on Germany and Italy was issued December 11th, 1941.

[Shogun Gunner]

Originally posted by Timmer

Second of all, the statue should be sought in Belgium,
not Germany. The stripes on their flag are horizontal.

Oh, my mistake. Sorry, the American textbooks are filled with Pearl Harbor information to the point that there's like just a half page on the liberation of Europe from Germany. I most have missed that being a yank.

[Dis]

You'd think Dec 7 would be more important in Europe. And in all fairness, it really isn't that big in the U.S. You won't see more than one paragraph on it in U.S. high school history books. In fact, WW2 wasn't a big feature of them. School books are moving away from the fun stuff like wars, and into boring stuff like politics and supreme court decisions. .

And there's always the conspiracy theory going around that Roosevelt knew of the attack before it happened. That's always fun to discuss. But that would be off-topic.

But I really thought someone would challenge me on my assertation that germany would have lost ww2 without direct U.S. involvement. I do believe this, but it wouldn't have been easy. But attacking the USSR sealed their fate. And it's possible they wouldn't have lost per se. But just ended the war with their orginal territories.

[GeoModder]

Originally posted by alva
Aren't you from Belgium?
You have two explanations right... one for Flanders, one for the south, so you're still one short for Brussels.

Perhaps he only knows "Bruxelles"?

[Dale]

Originally posted by Dis
But I really thought someone would challenge me on my assertation that germany would have lost ww2 without direct U.S. involvement. I do believe this, but it wouldn't have been easy. But attacking the USSR sealed their fate. And it's possible they wouldn't have lost per se. But just ended the war with their orginal territories.

Actually, I think it's not so much the fact they attacked Russia, they were winning very decisively in '40 & '41 till a simple little thing like snow occured.

In '40, snow in Poland and the Ukraine stopped supplys getting to army group centre, and consequently they ran out of fuel and ammo 20 kms from the Kremlin. If Moscow had've fallen, the moral damage to Russia's army would've caused Lenningrad's fall (pressed by both the Germans and Fins) allowing Germany to concentrate on Stalingrad. With those big three cities gone, the tank factories near the Urals are next, and after they fall it's a mopup operation till Hitler shook Hirohito's hand in Vladivostok.

So it all came down to early snow in Poland and Ukraine which stopped army group centre.

Dale

[Enigma_Nova]

You'd think Hitler could have learnt from Napoleon. =)

[Nelis]

Oh ... Ok, I haven't seen the first explanation so I didn't understand why 2 explanations. I was a little too ... tired yesterday

Yeah, I know Brussels, I live there

Timmer : you can exchange my statue with a good beer if you prefere !