I'm celebrating by playing Beachhead (http://www.trochoithoitrang.net/play_game.php?gameflash=506&ccate_id=31&game_name=Beach+Head+flash+game&gamecname=Game+B%E1%BA%AFn+S%C3%BAng).
You know what. It's nice we don't have to celebrate X-day.
Quote from: Razgovory on June 06, 2009, 02:33:42 AM
You know what. It's nice we don't have to celebrate X-day.
What do you have against X-mas now?
Quote from: Syt on June 06, 2009, 02:54:26 AM
What do you have against X-mas now?
Santa can't get into Raz' concrete bunker.
:bowler: :frog: :alberta: :Canuck:
:cheers:
God Bless America.
I'm watching Saving Private Ryan.
Quote from: Syt on June 06, 2009, 06:00:38 AM
I'm watching Saving Private Ryan.
Great movie. Nazis get whacked.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on June 06, 2009, 06:04:05 AM
Quote from: Syt on June 06, 2009, 06:00:38 AM
I'm watching Saving Private Ryan.
Great movie. Nazis get whacked.
Watched BoB again last weekend, and I must say BoB is so much better. All SPR has going for it is the battle scenes; the rest is Hollywood at its cheesiest.
A BoB style show about a German (Panzer?) unit could be intersting, adding a layer of morale dilemma when the unit gets faced with atrocities or is asked/forced/avoids to participate. Of course no one would have the balls to do a movie/series like that.
I have stocked up on DVDs, going from the BBC series "World War II" from 1973, to "D-Day" by the BBC with Sean Bean as narrator (Sir Laurence Olivier narrates the 1973 series).
Interesting fact: More Norwegian servicemen than French servicemen died on D-Day. Did the French use: God Mode?
There were about 3 French servicemen in total (all of them French Jews). :frog:
From the trivia on IMDB for SPR:
QuoteAbraham Lincoln''s letter to Mrs. Bixby, while a real document, was inaccurate when written. Only two of her sons died: Sgt. Charles Bixby at the Battle of Fredericksburg in 1862 and Pvt. Charles Bixby at Petersburg, Virginia, the following year. Two more sons, Pvts. George and Edward Bixby, both deserted, and the remaining son, Cpl. Henry Bixby, was captured and later swapped in a prisoner exchange. In fact, Mrs. Bixby - a Confederate sympathizer who operated a brothel - had lied to the War Department about the number of sons she'd lost. Moreover, according to the Abraham Lincoln Association, the letter itself wasn't even written by Lincoln but by one of his secretaries, John Hay. Brown University houses Hay's scrapbook of newspaper clippings which featured his writings. The Mrs. Bixby letter, publicly credited to Lincoln, is among them. One of the words in the letter, "beguiled", was helpful in showing that it wasn't Lincoln who wrote the letter. A database of Lincoln speeches/writings revealed the only instance in which he uses the word "beguiled" is in the Bixby letter. Hay, however, is documented to have used it at least a dozen different times in his letters, writings and speeches.
:lol:
Quote from: Syt on June 06, 2009, 06:29:48 AM
From the trivia on IMDB for SPR:
Nazis would never have done that.
Quote from: Norgy on June 06, 2009, 06:11:20 AMInteresting fact: More Norwegian servicemen than French servicemen died on D-Day. Did the French use: God Mode?
They must've been hiding somewhere?
I never thought I could shoot down a German plane, but last year I proved myself wrong.
Quote from: Solmyr on June 06, 2009, 06:24:42 AM
There were about 3 French servicemen in total (all of them French Jews). :frog:
What about Kieffer Commando?
I think I will go to campus and kick a German Professor in the nuts.
Quote from: PDH on June 06, 2009, 09:20:52 AM
I think I will go to campus and kick a German Professor in the nuts.
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HOGAAAAAAAN!
Quote from: Warspite on June 06, 2009, 08:44:57 AM
Quote from: Solmyr on June 06, 2009, 06:24:42 AM
There were about 3 French servicemen in total (all of them French Jews). :frog:
What about Kieffer Commando?
http://www.6juin1944.com/assaut/sword/en_bfmc.php
41 killed or wounded.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3735307.stm
Quote"In the end it was much less hard than I had feared. I had expected a lot tougher. We lost 10 dead but it could have been worse," he says.
Quote from: PDH on June 06, 2009, 09:20:52 AM
I think I will go to campus and kick a German Professor in the nuts.
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Hats off to the all the brave soldiers involved. :cheers:
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And we're losing them every day.
QuoteThis D-Day anniversary assumed special significance because veterans of the battle are reaching their 80s and 90s and their numbers are dwindling. One American veteran, Jim Norene, who fought with the 101st Airborne Division, came back for Saturday's ceremony, but died in his sleep Friday night.
"Jim was gravely ill when he left his home, and he knew that he might not return," Obama said. "But just as he did 65 years ago, he came anyway. May he now rest in peace with the boys he once bled with, and may his family always find solace in the heroism he showed here."
Ah the day that Canadian soldiers got 15 miles in & had to stop because you Yanks & Brits couldn't keep up.
:cheers:
Tomorrow, BoB marathon!
Quote from: Grey Fox on June 06, 2009, 09:24:14 PM
Ah the day that Canadian soldiers got 15 miles in & had to stop because you Yanks & Brits couldn't keep up.
:cheers:
Tomorrow, BoB marathon!
Nice there was one over Memorial Day weekend but I missed a few. History Channel agian?
Yep.
It's not like I don't own the dvds & got rips of them on computer too.
For in depth review (esp. the inaccuracies of the series) I recommend:
http://www.101airborneww2.com/bandofbrothers.html
He nags a lot, even though he gives the series 8.5 out of 10. I found it nevertheless interesting.
Quote from: Syt on June 07, 2009, 01:08:12 AM
For in depth review (esp. the inaccuracies of the series) I recommend:
http://www.101airborneww2.com/bandofbrothers.html
He nags a lot, even though he gives the series 8.5 out of 10. I found it nevertheless interesting.
What else can you do with a history degree?
I found they are good for lighting the fire on a cold winter day when you are out of kindling.
Quote from: Grey Fox on June 06, 2009, 09:24:14 PM
Ah the day that Canadian soldiers got 15 miles in & had to stop because you Yanks & Brits couldn't keep up.
:cheers:
Tomorrow, BoB marathon!
Well if they hadn't given you guys the easiest beach. :P
Quote from: Darth Wagtaros on June 06, 2009, 08:00:09 AM
I never thought I could shoot down a German plane, but last year I proved myself wrong.
Lufthansa will be surprised to hear it.
Lets also remember the 749 men who died practicing for the landing at Utah beach.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30977039/