Lennox Lewis vs Jack Dempsey

Go away and continue to live your life through osmosis desperately
" wishing " you had been involved in the certain knowledge that you were actually too young to have to take the risk.

I'll tell you the difference between you and real fighting men like my old man and his friends, and family. Because they were called up in 39 and spent the whole 6 years fighting they DIDN'T talk about it.

If you, a non com, had an ounce of the respect you purport to have, you'd keep your mouth firmly shut on the subject. I have had the privilege to know and socialise with dozens of these guys, and I have seen them march in rememberance parades wearing their medals, only to put them back in a draw until the following year. NOT ONE of them ever had so much to say on the subject as you have, other than to say " it was hell son, all the sh it you can imagine, and then some "

 

The KEY to the ALLIED victory in World War II was American production of supplies. We provided more aircraft, ships, tanks, jeeps, trucks, trains, and food than any other nation.

Now I will NEVER downplay the sacrifice and work of the UK nor Russia, BUT... in 1940 Great Britain was BANKRUPT and was preparing to negotiate a peace with Hitler. Churchill wrote a FAMOUS letter to President Roosevelt stating the DIRE state on the English, BEGGING for support.

The Soviet Union was also in dire straits... trading space and people in a BRILLIANT strategic retreat to the Urals. BUT they ALSO benefited greatly from US material support.

 

But then add to what we helped our allies with in terms of supplies with the men we sent to battle half way around the globe. To in any way downplay the US as a major reason WW2 was won is foolhardy at best.

 

"Played a role" is a massive diminishing of the U.S. Overall impact on who won WW2. Without the U.S. Neither England or Russia would have had the firepower to defeat Germany.

 

You punk, MAKE me go away...What the hell do you know about
my service background in WW2 ? Zilch...You utter contempt for the American armed forces in WW2, and belittle the sacrifices of so many dead Americans who though 3000 miles away DID join the fight against the terror that was Hitler, who you seem to adore or tolerate more or less. You defend a Stalin that signed a
"peace" pact with Her Hitler,but broken by the Nazi's when
the despot Hitler invaded Russia. These two animals Stalin and Hitler deserved each other...They were responsible for the cruel deaths of untold millions of human beings in the Gulag and concentration camps ,and totally affected the lives of every
innocent human beings on earth including me and my friends who died fighting the two beasts that was Stalin and Hitler...Try as you may to defend them you cad, you CANNOT change the true history of that past...You started this by calling me a "jokester", though you don't even know me...It is YOU sir who is the fool to try to change history of WW2. The valiant dead who lost their lives fighting the evil that was Hitler and Stalin deserve no less than the truth...

 

There is no doubt in my mind that if Hitler not have invaded Belgium, Poland, the Czeck Republic etc, and tried to conquer England and France etc, they could have defeated Russia alone...Hitler became drunk with power...

 

If Hitler hadn't invaded those countries, he would pretty soon have been bankrupt.

You might also want to consider that the French and Czech armaments industries, accounted for approximately 40% of Germany's military production.

 

Which of your friends was fighting Stalin, Burt?

 

Once again. England was near bankruptcy in 1940. Without the incredible level of US support for supplies there is a much higher possibility that England would have been in under German control in 1941. England under German control changes everything. Germany then could have focused greater attn on the eastern front AND without US support of Russia once again Germany at the very least would have had much more of a chance of reaching Moscow and conquering most all of Europe. So to downplay in any way the massive effort the U.S.made to help both England and Russia to win WW2 is just plain wrong. Then add to this all the brave young men who left there homes in the U.S. To travel half way around the world to die fighting this war.

 

They also killed their own soldiers if they retreated. Stalin killed 40, 000,000 of his own people. Patton was right. The Allies should of turned and destroyed the Russian Army too.

 

just face the facks dat you are rong and no it. History books write it. The world knows it. Just because yr country? is not the world power the last 70 yrs is nothing to be ashamed of.