THE FIRST WORLD WAR as reported in the daily news

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Re: THE FIRST WORLD WAR as reported in the daily news

Post by Niner » Mon Jan 29, 2018 3:38 pm

Duncan, WWII was the only war that had to be won by our side against the Germans and those countries that sided with them. WWI was all about pride on both sides and the winner looking to be at the throat of the loser and making them pay. It could have ended a lot earlier than it did.

In WWII, those that fought it on the side of the allies were deserving of being remembered as "the greatest generation". At the same time, from the point of view of horrors committed, our side did it's share of wholesale slaughter of non combatants....actually more. Dresden for instance:
The bombing of Dresden was a British/American aerial bombing attack on the city of Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony, that took place during the Second World War in the European Theatre. In four raids between 13 and 15 February 1945, 722 heavy bombers of the British Royal Air Force (RAF) and 527 of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) dropped more than 3,900 tons of high-explosive bombs and incendiary devices on the city.[1] The bombing and the resulting firestorm destroyed over 1,600 acres (6.5 km2) of the city centre.[2] An estimated 22,700[3] to 25,000[4] people were killed, although larger casualty figures have been claimed over the years
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Remember that experimental atom bomb that we first tried out on Japan to shorten the war? The US had no idea how much actual damage it would do. When we saw how terrible it was, and the Japs didn't surrender immediately, we dropped another one. The second time we know what it would do and how many it would kill or terribly injure. The Germans and Japs didn't have an atomic weapon yet so we were first....and only..for the moment... to use atomic weapons to kill large numbers of people.

The only evil thing that the Germans did that the allies didn't do, was to produce extermination camps in WWII.....save maybe the Russians which often just killed people without going to the trouble of herding them into camps first. The millions of civilians, particularly Jews, that the Germans methodically murdered was truly an atrocity of enormous proportions that the Allies were innocent of copying..

There are no wars in which the innocent don't suffer....and usually suffer the most. .. My opinion of course and to each his own.
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Re: THE FIRST WORLD WAR as reported in the daily news

Post by DuncaninFrance » Mon Jan 29, 2018 4:23 pm

Yes, each to their own Robert!
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Re: THE FIRST WORLD WAR as reported in the daily news

Post by Niner » Mon Jan 29, 2018 5:21 pm

Duncan, if we all thought the same about anything it would be a pretty dull site, now wouldn't it? Glad you stick to your guns.
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Re: THE FIRST WORLD WAR as reported in the daily news

Post by Niner » Tue Jan 30, 2018 10:12 am

Meanwhile....back in the US. Since whiskey production has been outlawed during the war there is a foreseeable problem.

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Re: THE FIRST WORLD WAR as reported in the daily news

Post by Niner Delta » Tue Jan 30, 2018 5:57 pm

If the annual whiskey consumption was 100,000,000 gallons per year and the population
of the US was 103,000,000 people (US Census Bureau) and the consumption is one gallon per person
per year. That means they are counting women and children in the one gallon per year, so men
are obviously drinking more than one gallon per year........ greedy.... :mrgreen:


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Re: THE FIRST WORLD WAR as reported in the daily news

Post by DuncaninFrance » Wed Jan 31, 2018 3:39 am

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Re: THE FIRST WORLD WAR as reported in the daily news

Post by Niner » Wed Jan 31, 2018 6:04 pm

American troops are continuing to get a little front line experience in generally quiet areas. When there is a minor action there are exaggerated headlines in one US paper. Little do they know the real war for Americans hasn't begun yet.

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Post by Niner » Fri Feb 02, 2018 4:06 pm

Tacoma Washington news. Groundhog day cartoon.

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Re: THE FIRST WORLD WAR as reported in the daily news

Post by Niner » Sun Feb 04, 2018 11:40 am

British Attorney General has a foot in mouth problem and is recalled. He disparages Wilson's league of nations idea, and has a low opinion of the Irish and their demands for Irish self determination.

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Re: THE FIRST WORLD WAR as reported in the daily news

Post by Niner » Wed Feb 07, 2018 12:58 am

The US hasn't even gotten a bloody nose yet much less loss any significant casualties, but they are spending money like they are in earnest.

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