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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: EN4CER on February 14, 2005, 04:12:42 PM
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I've been busy with my family website and touching up the Grave Digger's site but since Oscar Time is coming up, I couldn't resist with a little tribute to those wonderful outspoken left wing loud mouths in tinsel town. Bodhi, Cavy, and the rest of the right - a wee chuckle for ya!
(http://www.bobinskifamily.com/images/billboard_cuhomepage.jpg)
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That'll be the same Hollywood that wants us all to think that USA won the war all by itself? ;)
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Originally posted by Zulu7
That'll be the same Hollywood that wants us all to think that USA won the war all by itself? ;)
Thought liberals called it an Invasion / Occupying Force. I'm glad to see your calling it what it is - a WAR. ;)
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Don't stick your label on me. Over here liberals are middle of the road fence sitters.
And "Thought liberals called it an Invasion / Occupying Force. I'm glad to see your calling it what it is - a WAR" is just a plain stupid statement.
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An American saved the UK and the world in WW2, no doubt...
(http://www.sackville.ednet.ns.ca/art/gallery/exhibit/photography/karsh/Karsh,Yousef-Winston_Churchill-30_December_1941-m.jpg)
If you didnt have this 1/2 American fella all you Brits would be driving german cars and eating foreign foods, oh wait...
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he must have had a very expensive pocket watch
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Hehe bunch.
BTW Grunherz, it was 2 Americans, Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett who won WWII, which started on Dec 7 1941.
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Originally posted by Zulu7
That'll be the same Hollywood that wants us all to think that USA won the war all by itself? ;)
Basically we did.
But you think they would have at least mentioned the Russians.
Oh Wait. they did. "Enemy at the Gates"
If you beleive that you really really really need to brush up on your Hollywood movies.
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No way. Tom Hanks and Matt Damon won the war. Tom Hanks blew up a panzer with his 1911. That's hard core!
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Not without this Dutch originated man
(http://www.cpssports.com/Images/pics/l-roosevelt.jpg)
muhahahaha
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Originally posted by BUG_EAF322
Not without this Dutch originated man
(http://www.cpssports.com/Images/pics/l-roosevelt.jpg)
muhahahaha
LOL how many generations before?
His mother was from the Newburgh NY area
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Doesn't matter its dutch genes.
eat it .
And New York is a dutch invention too
formerly Nieuw Amsterdam
I bet his Grandmother came from there.
:aok
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Wow if America was a little more "dutch" it would be a much nicer place.
If only huh?:cool:
I've seen it all now!
Watching the opinion of our American freinds develop its easy to see what power unopposed does to a people.
Remember how the Soviets re wrote history to convince half of europe they liberated it and the communists were freely elected. All bull as I'm sure you agree.
Nw you wan't to claim our great leader of the
only nation to continue to stand against hitler in 1940 as one of your own.
( I know his mother was a yank but Churchill is a Brit you fools)
Next you'll want to claim that America broke the enigma code. Oh yeah you already did!
:lol
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Originally posted by Zulu7
Wow if America was a little more "dutch" it would be a much nicer place.
If only huh?:cool:
I've seen it all now!
Watching the opinion of our American freinds develop its easy to see what power unopposed does to a people.
Remember how the Soviets re wrote history to convince half of europe they liberated it and the communists were freely elected. All bull as I'm sure you agree.
Nw you wan't to claim our great leader of the
only nation to continue to stand against hitler in 1940 as one of your own.
( I know his mother was a yank but Churchill is a Brit you fools)
Next you'll want to claim that America broke the enigma code. Oh yeah you already did!
:lol
Heh.
We could have won the war without you.
You couldnt have without us.
Even your own Winston Churchill recognised that fact
And where did we or hollywood ever lay claim to the US Breaking the code?
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We captured the machine in the movie U571.
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Thats the one, Mighty1. And what a crock that was.
If we hadn't carried on and fought the germans after 1940 there wouldn't have been a war to be won.
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Originally posted by Zulu7
Thats the one, Mighty1. And what a crock that was.
If we hadn't carried on and fought the germans after 1940 there wouldn't have been a war to be won.
U-571 was a fictional account based on historical events of World War II.
The original Enigma captured from a U Boat (U-110) was taken by HMS Aubretia on May 9, 1941. A a 20-year-old sub-lieutenant, David Balme, commanded the boarding party.
The last one captured, along with an experimental advanced model, was captured from U-505 by the USS Pillsbury and the escort carrier USS Guadalcanal.
(http://uboat.net/allies/personnel/photos//gallery2.jpg)
Keeping his mission objective in mind, Captain Gallery ordered a boarding crew from the USS Pillsbury to make ready to board the 505. Germans were still aboard. Using "tommy guns" and hand grenades, the Americans cleared the ship of German sailors.
Descending through the conning tower, the boarding party learned the worst: Departing Germans had tried to scuttle their ship by opening one of the sea valves. 505 was taking on water. If the boarding crew did not quickly locate which valve was open, 505 would sink with her valuable code materials.
Ignoring the danger of booby traps, the crew had to work quickly. Reinforced with more men from the Guadalcanal, they repaired all leaks before they found their prize in 505's radio and sound room: an Enigma encoding machine plus a new, experimental machine. The Allies had what they needed to maintain naval supremacy. Surviving members of 505's crew were transferred to the Guadalcanal.
The 505 was towed (with the American colors flying above the flag of the Third Reich) to Port Royal Bay in Bermuda. There she would be safe from German knowledge that the ship did not sink. Like the 110, 505 gave up what the Allies needed most - and their secrets remained hidden until well after the war. As late as 1981, Admiral Doenitz (chief commander of the German fleet and President after Hitler's death) did not believe Enigma had been compromised.
Today, U-505 is at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry. (You can take a virtual tour of the ship by following this link.) The citizens of Chicago contributed $250,000 to save U-505 from destruction. She remains a permanent monument to the bravery (follow this link to read an eyewitness account) of the Americans who captured, raided and towed her 2,500 miles.
And it turns out that it was three poles who gave the keys to enigma to Bletchley Park.
As a result of this examination, three Polish mathematicians (Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Rozycki, and Henryk Zygalski) discovered that the Enigma's keyboard was wired in alphabetical order, not keyboard order. With that discovery in hand, they created a decoder machine, called, La Bomba (because it was cylindrical, like a bomb) which helped the Poles trace Nazi naval, air and land movements. By 1939, with a German invasion imminent, the Polish government passed their closely guarded secrets to the British and French.
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Well, I bet Daniel Gallery captured a 2nd one
USA!
USA!
USA!