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Old 09-18-2011, 08:19 PM
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I'm sorry Bongo,you know I like you man,but I dont think we'll ever agree on this one. I'm approaching this with an unbiased historian perspective,you're taking this more on a national pride thing.

I suppose that when my (British) history professor told me "there's no way to point out to a Briton that the Battle of Britain was in fact no victory" he knew what he was talking about
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Old 09-18-2011, 08:29 PM
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Hooray! Best sign of a healthy WW2 Combat flight simulation:

Threads in which the war is being re-fought versus other topics.

On to the .50 cals vs Tigers......

Congratulations!

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Old 09-18-2011, 08:32 PM
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I'm sorry Bongo,you know I like you man,but I dont think we'll ever agree on this one. I'm approaching this with an unbiased historian perspective,you're taking this more on a national pride thing.

I suppose that when my (British) history professor told me "there's no way to point out to a Briton that the Battle of Britain was in fact no victory" he knew what he was talking about
Same here, we have more things outside of this that we do agree on.

I just find it very confusing how some people interpret a Brit saying 'we won the battle of britain' as 'we won the war single handed', even more confusing is this desparate need by the same people to find the most insignificant semantics to try and discredit the British with any ability to fight in any way shape or form, the fact is we fought extremely well for the most part and have a hell of alot to be proud of, like just fighting because it was the right thing to do, so we had friends to help....mainly because they knew it was the right thing to do as well, if it floats your boat to believe the Germans were merely distracted by anything the Brits did then fine.....it's a free world (but no thanks to the Allies eh?)

just because your history teacher was British doesn't prove anything
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Old 09-18-2011, 08:36 PM
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Hooray! Best sign of a healthy WW2 Combat flight simulation:

Threads in which the war is being re-fought versus other topics.

On to the .50 cals vs Tigers......

Congratulations!

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Gunny
it's uncanny, a lone stubborn Brit, holding out against some (rude) Germans and a small contingent of Italians.

I bet if an American showed up the whole thing would be over in a heartbeat...
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Old 09-18-2011, 08:44 PM
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it's uncanny, a lone stubborn Brit, holding out against some (rude) Germans and a small contingent of Italians.

I bet if an American showed up the whole thing would be over in a heartbeat...

Here in the USofA we are sympathetic to the British plight but hampered by the Neutrality Acts, perhaps we could institute some kind of lend-lease program to provide support to Britain and the Commonwealth.
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Old 09-18-2011, 08:45 PM
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I'm approaching this with an unbiased historian perspective.
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Old 09-18-2011, 08:48 PM
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Blimey, does this mean I'm on your ignore list?
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Old 09-18-2011, 08:50 PM
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Here in the USofA we are sympathetic to the British plight but hampered by the Neutrality Acts, perhaps we could institute some kind of lend-lease program to provide support to Britain and the Commonwealth.
Smashing! if you wouldn't mind sending us some fuel, ammo, ships, planes and tea, you see we haven't spent the last 20 years massing a massive machine of agression and it's all for a good cause....god I hope we don't end up paying for this for the rest of our lives.

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Old 09-18-2011, 08:52 PM
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Blimey, does this mean I'm on your ignore list?
No Dutch, it's just I'm making most of the noise here, feel free to muck in my friend, I never use the ignore list or report button.
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Old 09-18-2011, 09:22 PM
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How is that supposed to be funny? Apart for the different conclusions that we reached,where did I show any bias or mention incorrect references? It might be a light argument for you,but I take the thing very seriously,considering that I achieved a BA Hons in History in the UK and argued over this topic endlessly ever since.

For the record,I too believed that Great Britain won the Battle of Britain,but I was proven wrong (as many of my course mates,and not without polemics) by a British Professor.
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