Originally posted by Ike 2K#
yep, white men also tried to eliminate the jews at the face of the globe.
If those white men had won WWII, none of us would be safe. White or no, we'd all be slaves.
People were very worried about the outcome of the Battle of the Bulge. Many old timers who lived back then felt the US would have lost the war, if we had lost that one battle.
The German infantry soldier with a rifle was considered a very dangerous opponent. One of my uncles, who passed on a few years ago, was at the Anzio landing. I never got to talk to him, or even meet him, but my Dad said Uncle Sydney would not talk about it at all.
When I was 16, and worked at a radio/appliance store toting around refrigerators and microwave ovens, my boss was Bill Knapp. He was a tail gunner in a B-24 and went on the Ploesti oil field raids. He was shot down twice during his bomber flights. He showed me a picture of him and his crew, with the B-24. I sure wish I had that picture today. He gave me an Amana microwave oven (1973 model) about 20 years ago, and I still use it to this day.
My Dad was in the Signal Corps during WWII. Before that, he worked as a 2nd mate on a 300 ton freighter out of New Orleans, bound for Argentina to Buenos Aires. He told me he listened on the radio (during the battle) while the British ships Exeter, Achilles and Ajax came after the Graf Spee...and later saw first hand the upper works of the German pocket battleship after it had been sunk (or scuttled), sticking up from the water near the mouth of the Rio Plata.
Les