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Post by herosrest on Apr 1, 2023 18:54:25 GMT
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Post by Elwood on Apr 2, 2023 13:23:04 GMT
Nice site. Thanks!
The Lt. Thatch, same Thatch from Midway action? The Thatch weave?
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Post by herosrest on Apr 3, 2023 17:05:02 GMT
O'hare and Thatch, Maverick and Iceman.
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Post by herosrest on May 31, 2023 9:42:54 GMT
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Post by herosrest on May 31, 2023 11:16:58 GMT
China. Where you buy and pay for your home before it is built. Is there any more.....?
Bang Mi Silly news.
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Post by herosrest on Jun 24, 2023 10:32:14 GMT
I find myself wondering, whether Russia's mecenary brigades in Southern Russia and Ukraine prefer fighting the Ukraine Army or the Russian one. Rostov is the major supply hub and one might expect that Russian reserves deployed to take control will have their bums bitten by some pretty bad ass mercs... I can imagine Ukraine flooding the now anti-Russian mercenary brigades with supply and ammo...... Weird World War. Russia nukes Rostov to save it.
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Post by herosrest on Jun 24, 2023 10:56:37 GMT
The fascinating thing now, in Russia, is how a top down oligarchy can survive open armed opposition, when those informing and advising Putin are likely to lose their heads whatever they do.That can of worms can only wriggle one way, so wait for the news blackout. News has gone haywire with suppositional opinion when it is simply human nature, in play. Puttin can only gangster down and risk Russian army on Russian army. Which.......... is already happened. Slap, slap, boom - link Update - It's started. Red on red force attacks in Russia.
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Post by yanmacca on Jun 24, 2023 12:35:30 GMT
Just goes to show how much of the fighting in ww2 actually took place on unkranian soil, rostov on Don was the limit of the main german advance in 1942, rostov us in the unkranian-russian border.
Ian
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Post by yanmacca on Jun 24, 2023 12:39:18 GMT
I see that the chechnian overlords want brown nose up to putin by send their fighters to see off the wagner boys, old vald will be enjoying watching two mercenary armies destroy each other whilst he concentrates on holding on to the donbas.
Ian
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Post by herosrest on Jun 24, 2023 13:43:56 GMT
There were huge campaigns of immense significance even today, all across the area with the single most importance of warfare played out over and over and again and again. The one which sits on back-burner until the wheels fall off and you have been whipped. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_von_Manstein en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgy_ZhukovIt's all about reach. WAM.............. Check out some of the 1944 battles with USAAF lending air support from the west. They blew the **** out of something but to this day no-one knows what.
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Post by yanmacca on Jun 24, 2023 14:04:33 GMT
They must be keeping that one under wraps, maybe Hitler did have a UFO after all.
I had a great book about the battles in and around the Ukraine 1942, one little known place was the rail town of veronezh, the Germans knew that it controlled all the supplies and troops sent south, including stalingrad, if they took the town stalingrad may have fallen. The Soviets fought like demons to hold onto it and succeed too.
Ian
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Post by herosrest on Jun 24, 2023 14:27:18 GMT
I previously discussed the Mediterranean actions against Italy (particularly) and France, Sicily, etc with the thought of bypassing Italy into the northern Adriatic ports of Venice and Trieste. For Salzburg and Munich. This was going on after the earlier events As history and Hannibal proved, all you do fighting in Italy is waste a very lot of time crashing ground forces into one another. The naval and air power existed at second half of 1943 to flatten the Adriatic threats, land succesully in the north, and get bogged down on the borders of Austria, or finish the war in months by cutting off the eastern front. My God, they've invaded Austria. That done, you simply knock politely on France's door 'cos the entire Atlantic Wall force is gone east to Italy and Austria. Difficult to do?.... Sheesh, Normandy was a roll of the dice. Venice would have caught the entire Germany by its short and curleies. Where was Hitler from?
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Post by herosrest on Jun 24, 2023 14:52:27 GMT
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Post by herosrest on Jun 24, 2023 15:26:55 GMT
What ever which way this tumbles, there is an amoured column with air-defence, headed straight at Moscow at high speed. That does not take long. Now, of course, Putin has a dozen armored brigades to defend him................ not. Armored column, flat out for Moscow. Big **** coming. Watch Putin's jet.
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Post by quincannon on Jun 24, 2023 16:01:55 GMT
It ain't over till it's over boys, but it is going to be fun to watch those peckerwoods fighting each other.
I have been reading about Francis Marion lately, in our own revolution. I like the way the man thinks and it touches on what both of you have said above. Marion knew he could not win in the Carolinas on his own. The British had far too much combat power for him to take them on directly. What to do? Bite them like a swarm of mosquitoes, making them try defend everything, and cutting them up by interdicting their supplies as the British tried in vain to resupply those garrisons that Marion forced them to man. The end result was Marion taking a lot of pressure off of Greene's Army, which in turn led Cornwallis to Yorktown and the sea to resupply. Irregular warfare such as practiced by Marion, coupled with the inferior army (Greene's) whose only aim was not to lose, is pretty much the U's game plan. Russian infighting only makes the U's job much easier.
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