Way off topic, but it has do to with the French

"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
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The Blitzkrieg days were long gone by the time the Fw 190 appeared on the
scene.

They'd have probably just used them for strafing and busting up formations,
wouldn't they? They couldn't have hung long in a turn fight with
Spitfires.
As I understood it, they sort of took the bull-in-a-china-cabinet approach
to things.

My grandfather's bombardier recalled slugging it out with one attacking them
head-on, watching pieces off the FW's cowl fly off and seeing an exposed
piston working as the plexiglass of the B-17 exploded all around him.
(They crashed in Sampigny, France.)

-c

"WingFlaps" wrote in message
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Did you know that your #1 enemy was a US sponsored "freedom
fighter" before he was cut off and left out to dry? That might have
made him realize something don't you think?

That the U.S. is a potential ally if Afghanistan is invaded?



-c

"Gig 601XL Builder" wrote in message
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Dudley Henriques wrote:

To me, the terrorist strategy is glaringly apparent. You first split the
country, then you let it destroy itself from within. You sit back and
watch. It's the old divide and conquer all over again, only this time it
smells of camel crap :-)


I think you are giving them way too much credit.

Maybe, but, at least certain members of their leadership have demonstrated
themselves to be extremely cunning, including ObL. It think underestimating
them is what got us tangled with them in the first place.

Specifically, we shouldn't have underestimated Al Qaeda in the 1990s.

-c

Of course it never dawned upon you that the governement was not "the
French"? Ever heard of something like the Résistence?

Sure.

So?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Jay Honeck" wrote in
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I don't think

Obviously

Bertie

Phil J wrote in
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On Feb 28, 1:16*pm, "Jay Honeck" wrote:
As unprepared as American was at that time, if the U.S. had been
part of Europe, Germany could have rolled over us as well.
*Germany's use of advanced technology and advanced tactics put them
ahead of every other country on the planet at that time.

I don't think anyone makes fun of the French for surrendering to
Hitler's blitzkrieg. *The Wehrmacht rolled over everything in its
path, until Hit
ler
decided that they should winter in the Soviet Union. * Bad move for
them
,
good for us.

No, what makes the French the butt of so many jokes was their
collaboratio
n
with the Nazis after the surrender. * The Vichy government was an
abomination.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Yeah, the collaboration is part of it. But I think the French had an
extra-embarrassing surrender because they had invested so much in
their "impregnable" Maginot line. When the Germans simply went around
it, it really made the French look like fools.

People who live in glass houses.

Bertie

"Jay Honeck" wrote in news:xr5yj.3282$TT4.2505
@attbi_s22:

Of course it never dawned upon you that the governement was not "the
French"? Ever heard of something like the Résistence?

Sure.

So?

Moron


Bertie

"Jay Honeck" wrote in
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The Spanish are all excited to see their new submarines ready to
deploy. These beautifully designed subs have glass bottoms so the
new Spanish navy can get a really good look at the old Spanish navy.

The old sailors in my workgroup here are roaring.

Same here.

My son has decided that he probably shouldn't tell that joke when he
visits Spain next month...


I'll be sure to tell customs for him.


Bertie

Wolfgang Schwanke wrote in -
berlin.de:

American terrorist preparations:

level 1: ban nasal hair trimmers
level 2: invade some innocent country on a different continent and bomb
it to cinders because they can't locate the right one on a map
level 3: have some more skyscrapers bombed by the people ****ed off
from what happened in level 2
level 4: post racist jokes to usenet

American jokes aren't racist?

Maybe they should

Level 1. invade naeighbors to southeast.
Level 2 anschull the next nieghbors to souteast
Level 3 invade neighbors to east
Level 4 invade neighbors to west
Level 5 **** up everything else and go whining back to the vaterland.


Bertie

Jay Honeck schrieb:

Of course it never dawned upon you that the governement was not "the
French"? Ever heard of something like the Résistence?

Sure.

So?

Good grief, are you really so dim? It takes an awful lot of courage to
do what they did. I suspect the vast majority of those who enjoy dumb
jokes about "the French" wouldn't have that courage.