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| Ostfront is where its at! ![]() Join Date: Apr 2004
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![]() ![]() ![]() | Yaaayyy!!! Woohooo!! Go on the Dutch!!!!
__________________ "The Eastern front is like a house of cards. If the front is broken through at one point all the rest will collapse." - General Heinz Guderian "With amazement and disappointment, we discovered in late October and early November that the beaten Russians seemed quite unaware that as a military force they had almost ceased to exist." - General Blumentritt "In all my years as a soldier, I have never seen me fight so hard." Lieutenant General Wilhelm Bittrich - Commander of II SS Panzer Korps - (Commenting on the British Paratroopers at Arnhem) - September 1944 "Had Clark given more heed to Juin's views...the savage battles of Cassino would probably never have been fought and the venerable house of St Benedict would have been unscathed" Rudolf Böhmler - 1st Fallschirmjäger Division - 1944 (After the bombing of Monte Cassino) |
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| Angels one-five ![]() Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Somewhere in Time
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![]() | Holland 3 Italy 0. Outstanding result, GH.
__________________ 'There I stood at the bar, wearing a Mae West, no jacket, and beginning to leak blood from my torn boot. None of the golfers took any notice of me - after all, I wasn't a member!' Kenneth Lee - after being shot down on the 18th August 1940. In the USAAF in World War II, over three times as many men were killed as wounded. Donald L. Miller. Avatar: SOE agent Andree Borrel killed at Natzweiler 6th July 1944. ![]() |
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![]() | That's the way to play football, lovely.
__________________ Good night, then - sleep to gather strength for the morning. For the morning will come. Brightly will it shine on the brave and true, kindly on all who suffer for the cause, glorious upon the tombs of heroes. Thus will shine the dawn. |
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | If the trouble the other night had been caused by England fans, then there would be calls for England to be banned. But nothing said about Poles & Germans. AFP: Over 200 arrested in Austria during Euro 2008 matches Quote:
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![]() ![]() ![]() | Dont worry now they have beaten the Italians and put themselves in a nice position, one of them will walk out of the camp citing "differences" with the manager and screw it all up!
__________________ "The Eastern front is like a house of cards. If the front is broken through at one point all the rest will collapse." - General Heinz Guderian "With amazement and disappointment, we discovered in late October and early November that the beaten Russians seemed quite unaware that as a military force they had almost ceased to exist." - General Blumentritt "In all my years as a soldier, I have never seen me fight so hard." Lieutenant General Wilhelm Bittrich - Commander of II SS Panzer Korps - (Commenting on the British Paratroopers at Arnhem) - September 1944 "Had Clark given more heed to Juin's views...the savage battles of Cassino would probably never have been fought and the venerable house of St Benedict would have been unscathed" Rudolf Böhmler - 1st Fallschirmjäger Division - 1944 (After the bombing of Monte Cassino) |
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| Senior Member ![]() Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Co Down, Northern Ireland
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Oxford DNB football team "As the Euro 2008 football championship gets underway - and with no home team taking part - we look to the past with a British all-stars XI" | |
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![]() | No problems in the dutch camp, they know thet are good, but keep reminding themselves that it still along way to go. Arjan Robben is doing oke now, and hopefully also Klaas-Jan Huntelaar, lets hope they give the french also a little spankin |
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