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From: ian field on 30 Jun 2010 12:02 "CT" <me(a)christrollen.co.uk> wrote in message news:88tn8fFguhU1(a)mid.individual.net... > ian field wrote: > >> The Stuka was a shinning example of German efficiency - the only >> fighter in WW2 that needed a fighter escort and every time our lads >> shot one down they got 2 Nazis for the price of one. > > The Stuka was a bomber, not a fighter. That was the Germans excuse and they're sticking to it.
From: Grimly Curmudgeon on 30 Jun 2010 18:38 We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember mower man <nospam(a)f2s.com> saying something like: >It was the motive behind the war that most infuriates me. Big fat greedy >capitalist USA tries to stop the rise of Communism. Again. The irony was, Uncle Ho wasn't really all that interested in being a Commie - he just took what help he could get in kicking the Frogs out, then the Septics, but by that time it kind of ran away with itself. As far as the vast majority of Vietnamese were concerned, they just wanted their country back and the 20th Century interlopers were just another set of foreigners trying to take their country away from them - the Chinese had tried it before and got their arses kicked eventually; several times.
From: des in all probability sticking around for another two months on 30 Jun 2010 18:40 On 30-06-2010, Andy Bonwick <nospam(a)bonwick.me.uk> wrote: > I didn't say you denied it was a war; Hog's the one who thinks it was > a police action. Yebbut, 'Hog' is an uneducated, narcissistic psychopath. -- des 'The Jews haven't attacked any Arab village, unless attacked first' (Ismayil Safwat, 'Palestinian' (sic) commander, March 1948)
From: Lozzo on 30 Jun 2010 20:12 steve auvache wrote: > Personally I figured something was not right about it all when Harold > Wilson one day announced that the gummint was planning on > reintroducing national service so that we too could join in the > slaughter and do our bit for democracy and freedom and contribute > thousands of British lives to the non war effort. My dad went to Vietnam as an observer when we lived in Singapore, this was sometime between Jan 1966 and Dec 1969. He came home after 6 months out there and hasn't spoken much about it since. He has told me he was amazed the war lasted so long, because the US forces were so badly trained, had totally the wrong attitude and were so unprofessional in everything they did. His report detailed all of this and was tossed out as being politically inflammatory. The Vietnam episode was what made him decide to leave altogether when his 22 years were up - he had thought about signing on for another 9. -- Lozzo Versys 650 Tourer, CBR600F-W racebike in the making, TS250C, RD400F (somewhere)
From: Two Dogs on 30 Jun 2010 20:21
On Jun 30, 9:38 am, "Hog" <sm911S...(a)CHIPShotmail.co.uk> wrote: > Two Dogs wrote: > > Are you now claiming there *was* radioactive medical waste in 1945? > > If so, you've gone off the reservation and I probably have been > > trolled... > > Well indeedy. History lesson herehttp://www.cna.ca/curriculum/cna_nuc_tech/cobalt60-eng.asp?bc=Cobalt-... > > Radium was being used for medical imaging from the 1890's and could be > called waste and famously the first instance of Radiotherapy was by Emil > Grubbe on a breast cancer in <googles> 1897 but that was using tubes of > Radon gas. > > -- > Hog Good info. Got me reading, always a dangerous thing. Not enough activity to produce quantities of waste until after WW2 though, just naturally occurring radioactive materials. I'm still interested in a little actual proof for this theory about Hitler, a dirty nuke and a superbomber plot that Ian's flinging about. Ian? Two Dogs |