10-07-2005, 05:44 PM
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10-07-2005, 07:35 PM
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__________________ Angie "History is lived forward but it is written in retrospect. We know the end before we consider the beginning and we can never wholly recapture what it was like to know the beginning only." C V Wedgewood | ||
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11-07-2005, 05:08 AM
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Thanks for remembering the Aussies Cheshire!
__________________ Spidge,  ------------------------------------------------------- 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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11-07-2005, 04:57 PM
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|  There were two Australian brigades and two New Zealand brigades, one of which was formed there, and included a unit of New Zealanders living in Britain. They formed an anti-tank battery. All hands went back to the Middle East. There was also a Free French Regiment of Foreign Legionnaires, drawn from the 13th Demi-Brigade, back from Narvik. They rallied to Charles De Gaulle. Some of the free Poles in Britain at the time manned railway artillery units, of all things.
__________________ "My intensity is intense." -- Roger Clemens "We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." -- Winston Churchill. "I am not a hero. The heroes are all dead. I am a survivor." -- Sgt. William Guarnere, Easy Company, 506th Parachute Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. Check out my little contributions to World War II history at my web pages: World War II Plus 55 or http://davidhlippman.wildbillguarnere.com |
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03-08-2005, 02:00 PM
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| The decider was the Royal Navy. Even with air superiority the army and particularly Hitler was particularly nervous of the sea crossing and more importantly re-supply. Almost all the wargames played on this have shown that the germans could have made a scuccessful landing, but would have been unable to re-supply their troops effectively. You might want to check out my web site on the remaining Uk Invasion defences at UK Pillboxes.
__________________ “This is a tale you will tell your grandchildren, and mightily bored they’ll be.” Lt. Gen. Brian Horrocks commander of British XXX Corps September 16, 1944 prior to Operation Market. |
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03-08-2005, 04:24 PM
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| Welcome Pillboxesuk, Hope you continue to contribute to the forum.
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- 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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