The family is great- and yours GG?
Posts made by sherman28
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RE: Favorite Quote
Major K- that’s from Apocalypse Now.
One of my favorites:
“If the General won’t lead the Army perhaps he would allow me to BORROW it…”
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“… I almost feel as if I could make myself dicatator if that would please me but it would not
-admirable self denial!!!” -
RE: Sorry, I've been away!
WN- I have been right here just busy as H*ll !!! One of my New Year’s Resolutions is to make a little more time to do the things I enjoy, That and the Doctor told me so! What’s your take on A&A minatures?
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RE: Merry Christmas to All…
Sorry, I’ve been really unable to get here since we moved. Things have slowed down where I can devote a little more time to hobbies. GG Money man- I was hoping you would respond first How is it going my brother?
Linkon, Thanks for posting the Lyrics- They really brought me down some, but Not too much. -
Sorry, I've been away!
Hey Folks- Sorry I’ve been away. What is all this Axis & Allies Miniatures stuff?
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RE: The big question, what religion are you?
Oh and I am an Eastern Orthodox Christian. When I was growing up we called it “Russian Orthodox” since the Family was of Russian extraction-
F_alk didn’t we cover this subject last summer?
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RE: The big question, what religion are you?
Why not add communism? It seeks to replace God with the State.
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RE: .45vs9mm
Ok I give the 1911 it’s props, no doubt end of discussion.
Are we talking about the WW1- WW2 Luger? I seam to recall it fired an underpowererd 9mm- not the parabellum round? I don’t know for sure.
If we talk Modern Euro Handguns then I’m a fan of the Sig- it looks so damn MEAN…
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RE: YIPEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hell- GG- If ya had sent me a private message I’d have bought you a copy and mailed it!
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RE: WW1: Whos to Blame?
Comrade commissar you are correct that A-H Empire shouldn’t pick on
“midget state” of Serbia, but the entangling alliances were what brought all of Europe into the conflict. A-H could have kept everyone out if they wanted to, but sought and got the old blank check from Kaiser Wilhelm. -
RE: WW1: Whos to Blame?
Comrade commissar you are correct that A-H Empire shouldn’t pick on
“midget state” of Serbia, but the entangling alliances were what brought all of Europe into the conflict. A-H could have kept everyone out if they wanted to, but sought and got the old blank check from Kaiser Wilhelm. -
RE: WW1: Whos to Blame?
@F_alk:
sure about the “did not get training and explosives there” (in Serbia) ?
Otherwise, then the attack was just a -by new US doctrine totally justified- pre-emptive strike aimed against terrorists. By this logic, the only nations to blame are France and Russia.
France & Russia? Are you seriously comparing The A-H Empire to the US?
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RE: WW1: Whos to Blame?
This is one of the best posts offered in GD for quite a while.
Blame?- Austria-Hungary their “note” of August was ridiculously harsh.
It is interesting to note that Gavrilio Princip who actually assassinated the Archduke Franz Ferdinand was Bosnian. Bosnia was part of the A-H Empire. Anti A-H empire folks hid out in Serbis though AFAIK, did not get
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RE: Operation Barbarossa
exactly- GI-
To MR- I’m not sure that calling Barrbarossa a mistake is a big deal.
It was a predetermined event, I think. Sooner or later the Soviets and the Nazi’s would have had it out.
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RE: Operation Barbarossa
Surely one could move German trains into Poland until you got to the Bug River where they met trains of the USSR, which were a different gauge so, you must transfer from one train to the next. I honestly didn’t beleive it myself when I’d read the dreaded wermacht was still very horse dependent. This doesn’t mean they had no trucks carrying supplies just mostly horsedrawn. -especially in the east. In the West the Germans had captured a bunch of equipment from the French- as I understand it they put it to use there. Some of the captrured trucks and tanks ineveitably went East to cover demand. One of those “wow I never knew that” type of things
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RE: Operation Barbarossa
The Germans had too many types of tanks, sp’s as well as soft skin vehicles going at the same time that the logistics of getting all the spare parts together was a nightmare enough. Not to mention the fact that German supplies throughout the war were horsedrawn- not a big deal when you are close to Germany but a big pain in the neck when you’re fighting in Stalingrad. Top it off with an economy that wasn’t geared for total war until 1943…