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This video is great https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNjp_4jY8pY Interesting thing in this vid... what has the thicker frontal armor, an M4 Sherman or a Tiger 1? The Sherman because the armor is angled edit: I misrembered, the Sherman has almost as much frontal armor than the tiger because of the slope. My bad. Julius CSAR fucked around with this message at 04:38 on Jul 19, 2020 |
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back in ww2 everything tasted really bad think about that next time yuo want to start a world war, thanks
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If you’re looking for a fascinating book about WWII outside the usual topics, The Tango War covers Latin and South America’s roles. Huge German population in Brazil had to be kept in check, Mexican oil fueling u boats, Brazilians helping liberate Italy, Orson Welles filming a doomed project, it is top tier reading.
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Jul 19, 2020 04:23
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Don't know where you scrubs are getting your Operation Downfall stats/predictions, but they're weak.Gen. Douglas MacArthur - re: Operation Downfall posted:
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Jul 19, 2020 04:29
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Tanks are dumb and stupid. They take a full calendar week to traverse their cannon like 2° just flank them idiots
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First phase of learning about Nazi Germany: "Nazis were brutal efficient conquerors who briefly ruled a large portion of Europe due to their technological prowess and relentless planning." Second phase of learning about Nazi Germany: "Actually all the Nazis were hosed up stupid drug addicts who ran a fundamentally dysfunctional economic and political system into the ground and never did anything that wasn't a giant shambolic mess. They're funny, not scary." Third phase of learning about Nazi Germany: "Oh the giant clown car that is Nazi internal politics lost the war, and they were always going to lose the war, but they still managed to kill millions of innocent humans. That's sad."
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Blistex posted:Don't know where you scrubs are getting your Operation Downfall stats/predictions, but they're weak. Lol this is really awesome
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Julius CSAR posted:That dude loving sucks btw I can understand that, I find his matter of fact delivery without needless editorialisation to be the main draw, would you be able to reccomend anything superior that accomplishes that? Or is the next step to actually start reading text books? Jestery fucked around with this message at 05:33 on Jul 19, 2020 |
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Jul 19, 2020 05:25
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Blistex posted:Don't know where you scrubs are getting your Operation Downfall stats/predictions, but they're weak. Lol Douglas "Lets shoot American Veterans who just want to be paid" McArthur. I wouldn't trust him to estimate how much cake would be needed at an birthday party. Castuality ratios had been shown to be 1 American to 7 Japanese killed. The planning board, who had more people on it than one general on it even at its low estimation at half a million, and others had similar numbers. McArthur was out for blood and wanted the invasion to happen as soon as possible, probably to win himself even more glory (thats my editorializing there based on the mans personality). A really good book I read in university was War Without Mercy: Race and the pacific war and it gets really in depth on how racism on both sides was a major factor in how both America and Japan prosecuted the war.
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Jul 19, 2020 08:20
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America had 100% air and sea superiority over japan They could have kept destroying war targets and factories until there was nothing left but they wanted the war to be over quick and they had fancy new bombs so they started a campaign of terror and deleted 3 cities worth of innocents
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Jul 19, 2020 11:09
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In 25 years when the apocalypse comes, when China starts virus-bombing our cities to kill as many civilians as it takes to get our government to surrender, I will remember that they are actually doing it to save us from further casualties out of the goodness of their hearts.
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Jul 19, 2020 11:20
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twistedmentat posted:Lol Douglas "Lets shoot American Veterans who just want to be paid" McArthur. I wouldn't trust him to estimate how much cake would be needed at an birthday party. Castuality ratios had been shown to be 1 American to 7 Japanese killed. The planning board, who had more people on it than one general on it even at its low estimation at half a million, and others had similar numbers. McArthur was out for blood and wanted the invasion to happen as soon as possible, probably to win himself even more glory (thats my editorializing there based on the mans personality). its a post from a d&d mod during the bush years with iraq replaced with japan sorry i explained your joke blistex
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Jul 19, 2020 12:28
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the d&d mod worked for the state department and was killed in benghazi during the embassy attack
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beer gas canister posted:shooting 4 bullets out of an m1 garand at the dirt in order to reload How about keeping an empty clip to throw at a rock (or something) to bait the enemy into coming out?
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Jul 19, 2020 12:40
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Necros posted:the d&d mod worked for the state department and was killed in benghazi during the embassy attack wrong mod, please don’t mix up vilerat and grover
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Jul 19, 2020 12:51
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~Coxy posted:How about keeping an empty clip to throw at a rock (or something) to bait the enemy into coming out? Soldiers rarely fight alone, so the odds are someone else is waiting to shoot you. Fun Fact: German tank armour (with the exception of some Stugs and Tigers sucked (as in the quality of the metal). People assume that it was a late war thing, but Russian engineers were shocked at pre-war, early, and mid-war examples they captured and tested and how brittle the armour actually was.
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Jul 19, 2020 13:02
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Julius CSAR posted:The numbers in the preface alone will put the chill on you real fast. They must have chilled you very fast, as you have neglected to post them. In other news, 2075 Japanese landed on an island with 14000 American soldiers defending it. The American General in command flees for his life, and several Colonel's run away with important "financial documents", leaving the islands defenders to surrender a few days later. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Corregidor#Siege.
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El_Elegante posted:wrong mod, please don’t mix up vilerat and grover sorry my bad
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Collapsing Farts posted:America had 100% air and sea superiority over japan I read in Unbroken (maybe not the best source) that the swift capitulation resulting from a hundred thousand civilian casualties interrupted the mass execution orders for tens of thousands of POWs, and thus although the ratio was terrible it was defensible from a military strategy perspective
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MakaVillian posted:Also why you should never buy a German car thats not enough just punch any kraut in the face once you encounter one i hate them and their ugly language BAMM
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Jul 19, 2020 14:41
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I have owned three automobiles, one from each axis power. It worries me.
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quote:A song, sung to the tune of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," turned up at Bataan:
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twistedmentat posted:They knew they could not defeat the American's by direct conflict, but they believed that the Americans were soft and if you killed enough of their soldiers, they'd sign a peace with the Japanese. Though the Americans felt that the Japanese could not compete with strapping American soldiers, and went into most of their battles over confident. That jives with my undergrad studies on the subject. I remember a book "American Samurai" I read in a Pacific Theater class and that was the main thrust of it: the Japanese didn't doubt the industrial capacity of the U.S. but they did doubt the resolve of its soldiers. That's why you have idiotic moves like Ichiki's Charge: throwing elite and battle-hardened veterans of the war into a frontal assault against Allied machine gun positions. There was a mutual disrespect/racism on both sides, yes, but the Japanese were resolute in their stance that they were culturally, spiritually, and intellectually superior. It's also why MAGIC was so successful for the Allies: the Japanese didn't think their codes could be broken by the inferior Americans. It wasn't until the dropping Firebombing of Tokyo (which killed more people and demoralized the populace as much as, if not more than, the atomic bombs) that Japan began considering surrender. My undergrad professor was also adamant that the Japanese surrendered only because Russia entered the war against them. The Japanese also stereotyped the Russians and absolutely did not want them invading the mainland.
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Jul 19, 2020 15:34
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Japan did some real gnarly stuff, really evil stuff
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Jul 19, 2020 15:37
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Zzulu posted:Japan did some real gnarly stuff, really evil stuff yes, its called anime
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Jul 19, 2020 15:48
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Zzulu posted:Japan did some real gnarly stuff, really evil stuff Mhm, it’s a good job nukes were invented by a bunch of US nerds really, to keep their use proportionate. If they’d been invented by a guy from Nanking we’d be talking about Japan in the past tense.
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Icochet posted:I have owned three automobiles, one from each axis power. It worries me. Lease a Lada to get the Axis achievement.
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Jul 19, 2020 16:55
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ChubbyChecker posted:yes, its called anime the real reason the international military tribunal for the far east hung tojo
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Best Bi Geek Squid posted:hung tojo no, that's hentai
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ChubbyChecker posted:no, that's hentai 
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Collapsing Farts posted:America had 100% air and sea superiority over japan Zzulu posted:In 25 years when the apocalypse comes, when China starts virus-bombing our cities to kill as many civilians as it takes to get our government to surrender, I will remember that they are actually doing it to save us from further casualties out of the goodness of their hearts. plucky little imperial japan
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Zzulu posted:In 25 years when the apocalypse comes, when China starts virus-bombing our cities to kill as many civilians as it takes to get our government to surrender, I will remember that they are actually doing it to save us from further casualties out of the goodness of their hearts. Japan attacked us first so that wouldn't be the same. Here is an eloquent defense of using the nukes on Japan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDzWyhXonMU Schweinhund fucked around with this message at 22:35 on Jul 19, 2020 |
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Jul 19, 2020 22:31
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teach me how to dougie (macarthur)
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Jestery posted:I can understand that, I find his matter of fact delivery without needless editorialisation to be the main draw, would you be able to reccomend anything superior that accomplishes that? Or is the next step to actually start reading text books? He plagiarizes so thoroughly he will quote other’s obvious historical inaccuracies word for word. Also he takes nazi propaganda at face value and considers it a worthwhile source, and just general jerking off of the technological and strategic superiority of the German military (which was anything but) in general. Up to and including things like cool action stories about SS units. I’m not saying you have to read books per se, but these topics are usually so in depth a 20 minute YouTube video is never going to be able cover with the kind of depth these subjects require. Speaking of depth Comstar posted:They must have chilled you very fast, as you have neglected to post them. I’m not gonna quote entire chapters of a book to you.
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Check this historical fact out: WWII is like PEW PEW PEW NNNRRRRRrrrrrrrrrvrrrrrrRRRroooowww PLOOOOOUUUUGHH!!! BBBLLBABABRRRRRrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrr!!!! You can put that poo poo on my momma an my dead homies, plagiarize THAT
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6xLMUifbxQ This vid tends to come up whenever tanks are discussed, but it broadly explains the US/Soviet/German way of designing tanks in accessible language, so you don't have to be some armor grognard to understand the vid. The discussion of armor design starts at 26 minutes if you want to skip the Kursk battle itself. I tried writing some tidbits about the video, but it doesn't do it justice to post the figures out of context.
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Big Beef City posted:Check this historical fact out: haha are you my bud jacques who i used to play gi joe with back in the day? your interest in the nazis was disturbing dude i hope you worked that poo poo out
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BIG TIT LIL NIP posted:haha are you my bud jacques who i used to play gi joe with back in the day? your interest in the nazis was disturbing dude i hope you worked that poo poo out Lots of kids get into Nazi poo poo, because it's so childish. Its basically all my problems are because of someone else, I am blameless!
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We're not doing this, thread. I was joking but for real we're not doing the 'haha what ARE nazi's am I rite' thing because that will turn into a 8 page long poo poo flinging contest between 3-5 specific people who "are just saying" and "totally just joking in the joke thread I thought". No.
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I think it’s cool that the Soviets called it the Great Patriotic War. That’s good branding.
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