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Lots of people got murdered between 1939-1945, how about that? WW2 was like 104 different small wars. Like Australians killed Syrians, and that was weird. People traveled for weeks on boats, just to kill other people. The best flying boat was the Kawanishi H8K.
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You mean the war of German aggression?
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Jul 17, 2020 06:15
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. Takasu’s Aleutians Screening Force, centered on BatDiv 2, was perhaps a more appropriate target for this criticism. With the four oldest battleships in the Japanese inventory “covering” the two misfit carriers of Dai-ni Kidō Butai, Takasu’s force could not by itself provide a credible threat to any American carrier task force that somehow ranged into northern waters. Nor, with a top speed of around twenty-four knots, could it run away quickly enough to save itself should the wolf show up at its own doorstep. Had he encountered American carriers, Takasu would have suffered the same fate as the Pearl Harbor battleships, the only difference being the greater depth and lower ambient temperature of their respective watery graves
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Jul 17, 2020 06:25
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"Night Witches" (German: die Nachthexen; Russian: Ночные ведьмы, Nochnye Vedmy) was a World War II German nickname for the all female military aviators of the 588th Night Bomber Regiment, known later as the 46th "Taman" Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment, of the Soviet Air Forces. Though women were initially barred from combat, Major Marina Raskova used her position and personal contacts with the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, Joseph Stalin, to obtain permission to form female combat units. On October 8, 1941, an order was issued to deploy three women's air-force units, including the 588th Regiment. The regiment, formed by Major Marina Raskova and led by Major Yevdokiya Bershanskaya, comprised primarily female volunteers in their late teens and early twenties
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Jul 17, 2020 06:37
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Hell yes, I love war. Have you seen tanks? They're freaking awesome, OP.
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Jul 17, 2020 06:50
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Kaiten (回天, literal translation: "Turn the Heaven", commonly rendered as "turn of the Heaven's will", "the heaven shaker"[1]) were manned torpedoes and suicide craft, used by the Imperial Japanese Navy in the final stages of World War II. Only the Type 1, a one-man model with a 1,550 kg (3,420 lb) warhead, was used operationally. Over 300 were built, more than 100 of which were sent on suicide missions.  The abandonment of the Types 2, 4 and their intermediaries, development of higher capacity batteries, abundance of Type 92 torpedoes and the ever-increasing urgency to be able to defend the Japanese mainland led to a change of methodology for the Kaiten design teams. The Type 10 was the result. It was essentially a Type 92 electric torpedo with a pilot chamber in-between the warhead and drive unit.  Shinji get in the Kaiten, we got some pedaling to do!
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Jul 17, 2020 06:53
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my paw paw was an engineer on the uss ingersol. he got a medal for fixing the big guns on the ship in the middle of a battle. i think about him often and wish i too was able to shoot naval cannons at nazis. rip
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Jul 17, 2020 07:17
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Will nobody stop these Antifa supersoldiers
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Jul 17, 2020 12:40
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*every GBS WWII thread* <makes post on how Germany could have won the war> <makes post about how Germany could never have won the war> <makes post on how Germany would have still lost had the US not entered> <makes post on how Russia alone could have defeated Germany> <makes post about how WWII speculation is stupid> <makes post on how the atomic bomb was necessary/unnecessary> <17 page derail and slapfight that gets waaaay too personal> <9 goons get 3 day probations> Let's break the cycle guys.
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Jul 17, 2020 13:37
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My favorite call of duty game is the one where you fight in and win world war 2
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Jul 17, 2020 13:44
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Germans are actually nice people. Happy they got their country together again. No one to fight right now unless it is amongst ourselves.
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Jul 17, 2020 13:58
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I was in WWII it wasn't a big deal actually
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Jul 17, 2020 13:59
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Nah Germans loving suck
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Jul 17, 2020 14:00
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fun WW2 fact: the "D" in D-Day stands for "Dead Nazis"
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Jul 17, 2020 14:01
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It's kinda crazy that us first adopted nazi scientists and then their entire political philosophy
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Jul 17, 2020 14:10
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That why adoption standards have gotten a lot tighter since those days.
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Jul 17, 2020 14:12
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WW2 stayed away from Switzerland, Sweden and Swaziland because they had no quarrel with the swastika
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Jul 17, 2020 15:24
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If the Normandy invasion failed, do you think the Russians would have stopped at Berlin? Would they have tried to liberate France?
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Jul 17, 2020 15:31
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Nah the Europe would be glorious and red all the way to the Atlantic ocean.
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Jul 17, 2020 15:56
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Wow cool thread about some boring little blip in history that didn’t have any effect or ramifications on the modern world OP! What’s next a thread on the freakin wheel?!
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Jul 17, 2020 16:29
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Colonel Cancer posted:It's kinda crazy that us first adopted nazi scientists and then their entire political philosophy Hail Hydra Edit: WWII is cool to learn about : fighting against literal evil, cool technological and battlefield innovations. Not like that stupid and pointless WWI. MakaVillian fucked around with this message at 16:45 on Jul 17, 2020 |
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Jul 17, 2020 16:39
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EVERY TIME GOING posted:Kaiten (回天, literal translation: "Turn the Heaven", commonly rendered as "turn of the Heaven's will", "the heaven shaker"[1]) were manned torpedoes and suicide craft, used by the Imperial Japanese Navy in the final stages of World War II. I wonder if the seats were padded
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Jul 17, 2020 16:51
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Nazi sympathizer Charles Lindbergh shot down a Japanese plane as a civilian because he just showed up at an island airfield one day.
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Jul 17, 2020 16:57
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It's too bad the nukes didn't ignite the atmosphere killing everyone, could have saved a lot of trouble
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Jul 17, 2020 16:58
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BIG TIT LIL NIP posted:my paw paw was an engineer on the uss ingersol. he got a medal for fixing the big guns on the ship in the middle of a battle. i think about him often and wish i too was able to shoot naval cannons at nazis. rip the ingersoll served in the pacific theater and would therefore not have been shooting at nazis
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Jul 17, 2020 17:10
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LordArgh posted:the ingersoll served in the pacific theater and would therefore not have been shooting at nazis Accuracy was an ongoing issue with the Ingersoll's gun crew.
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Jul 17, 2020 17:22
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Universe Master posted:Nazi sympathizer Charles Lindbergh shot down a Japanese plane as a civilian because he just showed up at an island airfield one day. When Lindbergh visited the Pacific island where Navy Lieutenant Richard Nixon was stationed, Nixon skipped seeing him so he could play more poker.
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Jul 17, 2020 17:49
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9 out of 10 KIAs never saw the person that killed them sounds pretty lovely
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Jul 17, 2020 18:19
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Hyrax Attack! posted:When Lindbergh visited the Pacific island where Navy Lieutenant Richard Nixon was stationed, Nixon skipped seeing him so he could play more poker. Before you say this is a rare Nixon win, he was playing poker with Hitler
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Jul 17, 2020 18:20
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LordArgh posted:the ingersoll served in the pacific theater and would therefore not have been shooting at nazis To be fair, he didn't specify what year, his grandpa could have been blasting Nazis from his row boat in 2014
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Jul 17, 2020 18:22
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EVERY TIME GOING posted:Shinji get in the Kaiten, we got some pedaling to do!  Wikipedia posted:Men were to be armed with a Type-5 attack mine containing 15 kg (33 lb) of explosives, fitted to a 5 m (16 ft) bamboo pole. While concealed underwater, men, expecting to be killed by the resulting explosion, would use the pole to push the contact-fuzed explosive against the hull of a landing craft passing overhead. Off each potential invasion beach, an inventory of mines was anchored to the bottom for use by the submerged men. Three strings of mines were fifty meters apart, and men would be stationed sixty meters apart, staggered so there would be a man for each 20-meter length of beach.[2]
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China is an interesting country during WW2 because they're fighting the Japanese, the communists, and trying to corral the local warlords into helping all while doing so. A lot of countries in WW2 are facing internal strife while fighting war of extinction, but I think the amount of internal chaos that the Chinas have to manage takes the cake. That country is a pretty tragic tale because all the human suffering started well before Hitler invaded Poland and started the European theater, and then once the Japanese surrendered in 1945 they went back to finishing their civil war with the communists for another 4 years. It's unsurprisingly horrible for the civilians, who are trying to be neutral enough not to be considered a traitor by any of the murderous factions/countries occupying their homes. A very good but upsetting book is Forgotten Ally by Rana Mitter. It starts off with a decent primer to get you up to speed on the Sino-Japanese situation and explains why both countries were so dissimilar on an industrial level.
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WW2 Week by Week by Indie Neidell is a pretty great and accessible series on Youtube currently that still manages to be deep enough that people well acquainted with WW2 will learn something new (or at least get a different perspective on events). Lot of production value in these, with plenty of footage and diagrams. They can also be listened to in the background, as i've done while driving or playing games. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b7GY4BSUmU What is especially notable about this series is that Indie does a fantastic job calling out atrocities by any country as "murder". He's especially aware of how WW2 brings out holocaust deniers/holomodor deniers/nanjing deniers/tankies and he goes out of his way to make sure his vids aren't providing ammunition for them. And while the videos are entertaining, he reminds folks periodically that wars aren't spectator sports even if they were 80 years ago.  BBC/Thames' The World at War is a 26 episode documentary series from 1973 which is something I think anyone who is interested in WW2 must watch. As you can guess from the release year, it got a handful of things wrong for a variety of reasons, such as proximity to the war years, the cold war, latent sinophobia/japanphobia, classified documents not being released yet. Despite all that, it shines because of the metric ton of footage and firsthand interviews they got from participants/victims of the war. They got plenty of high profile people on there before they died, such as one of the japanese generals who lead the attack on pearl harbor, or admiral dönitz, or hitler's valets and bodyguards. They also get a fair amount of folks like russian housewives or berliners explaining how they attempted to ignore the holocaust at the time. Again, because of the time this was made the accuracy isn't stellar, but there's no denying the value of the war footage or seeing the interviews from the people who were actually there. You really need to watch it by any means possible. I know nobody asked for effortposts but I just had to share~
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ZEROCOOL war bad
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I think we can all agree that Russia would have won the war single-handedly
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buglord posted:WW2 Week by Week by Indie Neidell is a gently caress this guy. I enjoyed his videos for a while. I didn't watch them religiously but found the ones I saw to be reasonably evenhanded and well put together. His episode on Prince Paul of Yugoslavia was straight bullshit British propaganda. He said that Yugoslavia's signing of the Tripartite Pact was going to allow German troops to move through the country, when they were very specifically forbidden from doing that by the agreement. He also presented the removal of Prince Paul from power as an entirely organic uprising and failed to mention British involvement. The UK was loving evil as hell in WW2 and listening to people defend them or Churchill is nauseating.
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Jul 17, 2020 19:52
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:gently caress this guy. I enjoyed his videos for a while. I didn't watch them religiously but found the ones I saw to be reasonably evenhanded and well put together. His WW1 playlist was really good 
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Jul 17, 2020 19:53
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The part where American GIs in britain drank the entire nation's beer supply is pretty rad. More Budweiser bro!
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Jul 17, 2020 19:57
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:gently caress this guy. I enjoyed his videos for a while. I didn't watch them religiously but found the ones I saw to be reasonably evenhanded and well put together. Maybe reach out to him on it? He seems to genuinely want to do better and redoes episodes if he thinks he did a poor job of explaining something. It could be malice but he’s one of the few folks I’d give the benefit of the doubt to.
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LordArgh posted:the ingersoll served in the pacific theater and would therefore not have been shooting at nazis wait i thought the japanese in ww2 were honorary nazis???? i thought an ally to a nazi is a nazi but i just woke up and and am still a little foggy
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