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Old 04-03-2008, 11:25 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Mexico in WW2

This is a good overall coverage of Mexico in ww2.

Great colour photos and video at the end of the story.

The Saga of the Aztec Eagles - Mexico in WW2
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"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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Old 04-03-2008, 11:42 PM   #2 (permalink)
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They flew Jugs in the Pacific, didn´t they?
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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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This is a good overall coverage of Mexico in ww2.

Great colour photos and video at the end of the story.

The Saga of the Aztec Eagles - Mexico in WW2

hey thanx, amazing stuff
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Great find, I just found out about Mexicos involvment in the war this morning, aside from the controversial telegraph that supposedly took place between Hitler and Mexico.
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Er, wasn't that the Zimmermann Telegram in the First World War?
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This is a good overall coverage of Mexico in ww2.

Great colour photos and video at the end of the story.

The Saga of the Aztec Eagles - Mexico in WW2

A great website and very informative.

When the last video ends there are several still photographs.
The last still is a photo taken at the present day Peenemünde museum,which I can personally recommend.

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Er, wasn't that the Zimmermann Telegram in the First World War?
Looked into it and it looks like that was the one, I don't know why I thought it was sent during WW2!
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