Bros, things are changing.

[MarriedNotBuriedParticipant 136]

If you enjoy reading, and want a reasonably brief but thorough overview of WW1 and WWII, I highly recommend these books:

A Short History of World War I
by James L. Stokesbury

A Short History of World War II
by James L. Stokesbury

Then from there, you can find more detailed information about specific battles and things in other books.

[AutoliteParticipant]

joetech wrote:

I’ve talked to millenials here in the states that don’t even know the story of the Arizona. They know there’s a memorial at Pearl Harbor, but they don’t know why. I grew up on WW2 stories. Something like the Arizona should be known by every American schoolkid, I think. Just like the story of what happened at Dunkirk should be known by every British schoolkid, but that’s just me apparently.

A guy I was in the (Canadian) military with showed me a photo of his Dad wearing a Navy uniform circa 1950. I asked him if his father was in the war.

He replied asking “What war”?

I was stunned! The higher ups in the Canadian Forces started to realize that new members joining really had no idea of Canada’s involvement in WWII or Canadian military history so they started printing and distributing booklets and DVDs explaining it.

I don’t know about the United States or other countries, but learning about military history has been discouraged in Canada due to too many years of Liberal federal governments. Canada’s current Prime Minister, Justin Turdeau, thinks that we pay too much attention or tribute to Canada’s ex-military people…

[ViciouscunningtreacherousParticipant 823]

I come from a ww2 family. My father served in the Pacific flying SBD dauntless torpedo bombers and survived the battle of the coral sea. His aircraft carrier was sunk while he was attacking a Japanese ship. My uncle Fred drove a landing barge in the d-day Invasion of France. Shot in the shoulder and the neck and had permanent nerve damage so that when he spoke, he sounded drunk. He lived long enough to see “saving private ryan” and just cried through the whole thing. My uncle Sam was a radio man in northern Africa and invaded Sicily under Bradley’s army. Their stories taught us boys about ww2 and what they want through. It gave perspective to why they were so decent and nice as men. They were thrust into savagery and had to become savages to survive. After the war, all they wanted was to be at peace. Something women don’t know and can’t understand. My dad was particularly outgoing with his accounts. He wanted us boys to know why he fought. We became a military service family because of him. He passed on last year at 91. My uncle’s died some years back. They were common men that rose up to do the uncommon things that we all take for granted today. They fought as men and brothers in arms. And sadly, they didn’t fight for this s~~~ty outcome. Yet here we are. Men and boys out there! Learn your history on your own or you’ll be doomed to repeat it.

For in much wisdom is much grief, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.

[Point Of No ReturnParticipant 4074]

I want to see some s~~~ YESTERDAY! Tired of waiting for S-to-HTF!

Know when it is your duty to give them zero explanations for your actions.

[Puffin StuffParticipant 25019]

They fought for and trusted their women back home. How they were beat over the head with third wave feminism was disgusting. These were the men who were called abusers. Abusers because they expected a wife to be one and a place made in the family for them. In the decades since men have been systematically removed from the family and shunned by society.

Don’t ever go to war. You’ll be cannon fodder for someone else’s conflict.

#icethemout; Remember Thomas Ball. He died for your children.

[AutoliteParticipant]

Carnage wrote:

The guys at Dunkirk died FOR NOTHING.

I’m sure that there are a few legitimate reasons but one of the big ones was that the Brits didn’t want to have to learn to speak German.

Hitler fully intended to invade and conquer England. He was preparing for it during the summer of 1940. Britain was on her knees and Germany knew it. Hitler was deterred from invading after just narrowly losing the Battle of Britain which started almost immediately after the Dunkirk evacuation…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Britain

[NerevarParticipant 8040]

Puffin Stuff wrote:

They for and trusted their women back home. How they were beat over the head with third wave feminism was disgusting. These were the men who were called abusers. Abusers because they expected a wife to be one and a place made in the family for them. In the decades since men have been systematically removed from the family and shunned by society.

Don’t ever go to war. You’ll be cannon fodder for someone else’s conflict.

Painful to read, but the truth is often harsh and unforgiving. I need doses like these every once in a while.

"One of the best things internet exposed is just how insane women are." - Freeman_K

[Cú ChulainnParticipant 3910]

Sorry, but you have to give credit where its due.

During WWII British women joined the factories in the place of the men who went fighting. There was also the land girls, who took the place of the farm workers who went to fight. These women made the armaments and the food for the total war effort.

Then there was the London Blitz, women lived under that and only children were evacuated to the countryside to avoid the Luftwaffe bombs.

This was the greatest generation remember? The women of WWII were nothing like the wretches we have to put up with today.

[Puffin StuffParticipant 25019]

You mean women gave of themselves as much as the men at Dunkirk because they went to work in a factory like the men had been doing for one hundred years even without a war?

Tough break for those women.

The women to feel sorry for are the Russian women. They fought beside their men and died in droves.

The article says that Germany didn’t count on the Russian weather or the Russian women.

http://www.military.com/video/forces/military-foreign-forces/russian-female-soldiers-wwii/3270910232001

#icethemout; Remember Thomas Ball. He died for your children.

[black_knightParticipant 2602]

Puffin Stuff wrote:

They fought for and trusted their women back home. How they were beat over the head with third wave feminism was disgusting. These were the men who were called abusers. Abusers because they expected a wife to be one and a place made in the family for them. In the decades since men have been systematically removed from the family and shunned by society.

Don’t ever go to war. You’ll be cannon fodder for someone else’s conflict.

When I joined this site, I said in my intro that there were 2 specific moments in time I recall swallowing red pills.

One of them was from reading accounts of some British wives during WW2 who thought nothing of f~~~ing American soldiers stationed here in the UK. Since I read that, my conception of women was changed irreversibly, and I would now think very hard before going to fight a war. Women are not worth fighting for.

[Cú ChulainnParticipant 3910]

They performed a role, they took the places of factory men who went to war.

This is fact, I’m not saying they got it tough or tougher than the soldiers, of course not, but without them there’d be no bullets or shells for the men to fight with.

Nowadays women think they can fight a war like men, bulls~~~. 1940s women knew their place and did what they could.

[Puffin StuffParticipant 25019]

Now days more women work than men and are close to becoming the main bread winner in most households. Is it heroic?

I think women think so.

What do I think is heroic? Our sisters in SEAL and Delta Teams and I’ll give em that.

I know our sisters on the front lines can protect us with all the gear we having supporting them in SEAL teams and Delta force units.

I am not a sexist.

Times change, thanks feminism.

#icethemout; Remember Thomas Ball. He died for your children.

[Anonymous 3]

Cú Chulainn wrote:

Sorry, but you have to give credit where its due.

During WWII British women joined the factories in the place of the men who went fighting. There was also the land girls, who took the place of the farm workers who went to fight. These women made the armaments and the food for the total war effort.

Then there was the London Blitz, women lived under that and only children were evacuated to the countryside to avoid the Luftwaffe bombs.

This was the greatest generation remember? The women of WWII were nothing like the wretches we have to put up with today.

Oh please, they barely did anything. A few women processed nylons and some other easy work. The majority of that work was still done by men, minority men and men too old to go to war. Remember there was still segregation back then. Women are just being credited with all that now.

If it was possible for women to actually do that stuff, they’d be doing it now. They’re not though. Not because these jobs are preferentially handed to men, which is a ridiculous assertion in today’s world, but because they suck at it and we don’t really need it to be done anyway. Most of it is done by robots and the assembly line, the assembly line existed back then too. A lot of it is also outsourced to third world countries.

Every time these claims are made, when someone researches it thoroughly, they always find out women barely did anything but are credited for everything. Same old s~~~, just a different layer. Men being disposable and unacknowledged, any female contribute praised to the ends of the world, with massive hyperbole and exaggeration. They pull that same garbage with female soldiers today. Pretending there are superwomen that go and kill swathes of enemy forces, then when you look at it the woman usually doesn’t even want to be acknowledged because she knows she didn’t do anything.

[Cú ChulainnParticipant 3910]

Sluts are sluts, today or during the war. That’s also a fact, some whores cheated on their husbands with GIs.

But a lot of the women did support the war effort by working in the factories, somebody had to do it.

Do you think our current Jezebel generation could work a lathe on a production line? They get PTSD from bad comments on Tumblr fer f~~~s sake.

There are degrees of s~~~ty females, 1940s wimmen were less s~~~ty than today’s crop, in my most humble opinion of course.

[Puffin StuffParticipant 25019]

You cannot begin to equate the suffering of men in the second world war to the plight of women in first world countries who at best took a job like everyone else had been doing for eons.

I think that’s the point of the movie.

#icethemout; Remember Thomas Ball. He died for your children.

[MelkiorrParticipant 200]

Refreshing to finally see a war movie the way it should be. A breath of fresh air after all these years of politically feminists corrects bulls~~~ movies.

[TrapperParticipant 2912]

I grew up hearing WW2 stories. My grandfather was a sea bee in the pacific. His brother was a marine stationed at Pearl Harbor when it was bombed. Then fought at Guadalcanal, was injured, recovered and fought at Okinawa. Their stories were priceless.

If you want an interesting read about d-day, look up “d-day through German eyes” by Holger Eckhertz.

He has 2 short books. First hand accounts by Germans that survived the invasion.

The stories of the Canadians hitting them are BADASS. The one German said if he ever had to go to war again he’d want Canadians with him. It’s sad that’s not taught in schools in Canada

[Cú ChulainnParticipant 3910]

My two favourite war books are Ernst Junger’s ‘Storm of Steel’ (WWI), and Michael Herr’s ‘Dispatches’ (Vietnam). Both read multiple times. Junger was a true warrior, unbelievable valour.

[Maximus AureliusParticipant 351]

Lurch wrote:

Darksith wrote:

I heard that in real life wonder woman saved the day by carrying men out by putting one over each shoulder.

That’s just like a woman to show up after the real work was done! Then clean up around the house while giving snarky comments about how the men did it wrong..

Whether its making a movie or War, women could never do anything successful without Men to do it for them.

Meditating on the Wisdom & Truths of Man, Isn't just a Philosophy, but a Calling......Be willing to be Called a Man!

[DorkShitParticipant 4353]

Lurch wrote:

Darksith wrote:

I heard that in real life wonder woman saved the day by carrying men out by putting one over each shoulder.

Yes Lurch. That was the image I had in mind. It has to be real because I see it.

Peace brothers

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