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I didn't start the thread and nor have I hijacked itWho started the thread?
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I read an article yesterday that said Churchill was strongly opposed to the D Day landings preferring to invade via Southern Europe, Italy. He was overruled and D Day went ahead, but experts who have since analysed Churchills alternative plan have come to the conclusion the war may have ended 6 months earlier had the alternative plan been adopted.
The usual moron Gassy started the thread in the first place, just to start point-scoring.
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I never knew that. An interesting fact.
Not sure it's a fact exactly, he was strongly opposed to D Day but came around to it nearer to the time, seems there's quite a bit of debate around the issue.
Interesting nontheless.
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Stop derailing the thread!The usual moron Gassy started the thread in the first place, just to start point-scoring.
And you want to give our freedom back to the eu.
They gave their lives so that we all have the freedom to choose what we want to think and say.
I went to the British memorial at ver sur mer a few weeks ago. Very moving.
Can ya dig it?
Ah that’s interesting, what pitch is it? Is it tunable? I believe some can only be tuned by embouchure
Sadly Im not musical but my wife is, she plays piano, saxophone, oboe, harp.
The computer analysis lacks any insight into events happening in other theaters of war at the time, nor does it take into account the heavy rains in Italy during the Autumn of 1943 which turned the Arno into a raging torrent, the roads into a mushy quagmire and men into sodden lumps of mouldy misery.
More intriguing is an incident in 1940 when the sinking of the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious, together with her escorting destroyers Ardent and Acasta, cost the lives of 1,519 men and brought the Norwegian campaign to a humiliating end. Claims that the aircraft carrier was engaged in a secret mission on the orders of the Prime Minister, “Operation Paul”, a bold plan to win the war by cutting Germany off from its most vital strategic supplies: Swedish iron ore. Churchill had tried unsuccessfully to gain Cabinet approval for “Project Catherine”: a plan to send a British task force into the Baltic Sea to sever the German supply line to Sweden, but there's credible evidence the aircraft carrier may have been part of a plan to prevent the vital ore falling into Nazi hands on a later expedition that was ultimately thwarted by the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau.
Point scoring on one of the most famous dates in our history dont talk nonsense as per usual. Brigadier yep certainly a rupertThe usual moron Gassy started the thread in the first place, just to start point-scoring.
