29-04-2008, 09:56 PM
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| Member  Join Date: Apr 2008
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 | Introduction Hallo all, I like to give a short introduction as being asked with my 'welcome-mail' when I registered this forum. I'am (still) a little boy (occording my mother). I am about 43 years old and being heavily infected with an well known but dangerous virus. Its called 'Arnhem'. I am also most interested in the actions of German Forces in Holland during Market-Garden and also interested in the actions of Fallschirmjäger where ever thay took place... Appart from that I like to read books about WW2, especialy about the actions in Europe and N-Afrika. Looking forward to some good discussions ! F |
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29-04-2008, 10:01 PM
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| Ostfront is where its at!   Join Date: Apr 2004
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| Well hello Fallschirmjager and nice to meet you!
__________________ "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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29-04-2008, 11:39 PM
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| Legendary Member   Join Date: May 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia
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| Welcome Fallshirmjager.
__________________ 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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30-04-2008, 07:12 AM
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| Angels one-five   Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Somewhere in Time
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| Welcome and enjoy. 
__________________ '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 (F Section) agent Andree Borrel murdered at Natzweiler Camp 6th July 1944.  |
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30-04-2008, 08:28 AM
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| Senior Member   Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Coulsdon Surrey UK
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| welcome fj and enjoy
__________________ My website www.leefinneyracing.com |
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30-04-2008, 09:43 AM
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| Ubique  Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: UK/France
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| Plenty of 40-something 'babies' on here mate, and quite a few of us also interested in Arnhem and Market Garden. Welcome!
__________________ The WW2 Society: Remembering those from Britain & The Commonwealth who served 1939-45 - http://www.battlefieldsww2.50megs.com/ww2_society.htm |
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30-04-2008, 09:47 AM
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| Legendary Member  Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Windsor UK
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| Hi FJ welcome to the forum.
__________________ On weald of Kent I watched once more Again I heard that grumbling roar Of fighter planes; yet none were near And all around the sky was clear Borne on the wind a whisper came 'Though men grow old, they stay the same' And then I knew, unseen to eye The ageless Few were sweeping by |
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