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Old 23-03-2007, 02:59 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Owen D View Post
Just heard one of my mates is getting married in Budapest in September.
We've been invited.
Too good an opportunity to pass up to visit an Eastern Front battlefield.

Apart from this Soviet Memorial anything else to see WW2 related?

Budapest - Soviet War Memorial

Looks like might have to read this.
The Siege of Budapest
You know you have to have a foot on each bank of the Danube to be in Buda Pest!
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My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html

"You were given the choice between war and dishonor.
You chose dishonor and you will have war."

(Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.)

 What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site:
http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm
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