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Interesting topic, Operation Market Garden has always been one of my favourite battles from World War Two, its dynamics are quite interesting. As a child I visited Arnhem and stayed in a hotel next to the Jonney Frost Bridge (as its known now), Arnhem is quite a nice typical dutch town, its hard to ...

Do you also believe Stalin left Russia poorly defended so he could take over Eastern Europe? Welcome back to the debate ))) Whats this got to do with it, I'm talking about Pearl Harbor, because this is what the post is about, please read the top of the page. For the record I do not believe such, ju...

Perhaps the USA gave assistance to the USSR in building rockets so there would be a moon race and we would go to the moon. It's all of the same ilk. You can imagine anything you want. Obviously I would advocate a different theory for this subject, that Russian and America at the end of World War Tw...

Bgile wrote:Perhaps the USA gave assistance to the USSR in building rockets so there would be a moon race and we would go to the moon. It's all of the same ilk. You can imagine anything you want.

What paint thinners have you been sniffing? )))

Do you also believe Stalin left Russia poorly defended so he could take over Eastern Europe? Welcome back to the debate ))) Whats this got to do with it, I'm talking about Pearl Harbor, because this is what the post is about, please read the top of the page. For the record I do not believe such, ju...

RF wrote:Nice pictures. Thanks for the posts, Oberwarrior.

You're welcome )))

Oberwarrior, I think that your claim that there is a conspiracy if you cannot prove there wasn't is faulty reasoning. This is the sort of argument that used to be had over whether the Earth was flat and over whether the Apollo moonshots were faked. I think that the actual run of events is proof eno...

Arrhh, you reminded me, have seen this, very good film. I should also probably mention 'Blue Max', one of the few films in that era which did not make the Germans out to be a bunch of idiots. Thanks for the reminder. ))) Also of course Zeppelin, with the German raid on a Scottish castle. I presume ...

Destroyers, in general, were terrible passive sonar platforms. They had a lot of self noise and at that time weren't designed with noise reduction in mind. I'd think it would be very hard to detect a submarine that way unless it passed very close to the destroyer, especially if the submarine was tr...

I personally have never seen any evidence for any conspiracy. Then its a good conspiracy, a good conspiracy is an unprovable one, keeps everyone talking and debating and no one can say for certain either way. With all good none provable conspiracies the evidence, if there is any, is somewhat circum...

Not that it's particularly relevant to this argument, but under US law you are innocent until proven guilty. Thanks for correcting me on this, I'll remember for the future. ))) I'm not going to debate this anymore. You seem to think there was a conspiracy. I don't understand why. There is no eviden...

... The US recovering from depression is arguably a good reason to go to war, True but irrelevant. FDR was clearly trying to get the US in the war vs Germany and building up the US military. US industry was also building a lot for others. PH was not far from the ideal way to enter the war. The Amer...

The burden of proof is on the people who believe there was a conspiracy. If there was no conspiracy, there would be no evidence of one. If there was a conspiracy, evidence would have shown up by now. There is no evidence at all; just people saying they think it looks funny that we would be so unpre...

... No one gives a monkey's what films other countries make because they are often only seen nationally. Less true now than in the past. Many films now are international projects and other countries have made some very big hits in recent years. And then of course there are films from American direc...

I must admit I had no idea this ship was preserved as a museum. I thought HMS Belfast was the last ship of its kind still around. It's great to learn new things everyday! :D Likewise I must also confess to this, I was on holiday in Anapa last year and my wife started telling me about this ship in N...