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I agree with lwd. If you look hard enough, you can find a conspiracy in everything. What earthshaking revelation about the American Civil War are you referring to? http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v02/v02p137_Weber.html Put simply concentration camps! Information about this was not widespread until the 1970s...

There was also ''All Quiet on the Western Front'' which was sufficiently influential for the Nazies to ban it. 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 idio...

I don't think that the loss of Scharnhorst was entirely down to Bey. I would certainly agree that he was not the right man for the job, he didn't have the required background or experience, but once at sea he was on his own and operating almost completely blind. To be honest I can't see any other G...

Frankly the US military had every opportunity to make the event a 'turkey shoot', so either some people were very stupid (are the US government & FDR really this stupid consider the rest of their WW2 conduct) or there is something wrong (conspiracy). Your first assumption is incorrect thus what...

Please guess the warship, only clue is she was built shortly after WW2. Good Luck )))

Pearl Harbor was, absolutely, the event that brought America into the Second World War. Without the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States would 'NOT have opentered the Second World War. I am convinced of this. Because of Pearl Harbor, the American people, and all of the industrial might of the ...

During the Cold War days I met an American here in Argentina, who was doing some work in a sugar plant. He told me "The best government on Earth is the Soviet Government, when they speak you know they are lying. The worst is the American Government, when they speak you don´t know when they are...

I agree with 90% of what Karl is saying, and I think they door is wide open for speculation on the matter since the US government has done itself no favors classifying or destroying important documents on the matter. Although I think the planes destroyed on the Pearl Harbor runways and at Japanese b...

I suppose its down to personal prefernce, so here goes... 1) Das Boot, existential and gritty reality, very good book as well. 2) A Bridge Too Far, another great anti-war film, one should also read Ian Kershaw's book 'It Never Snows in September'. 3) Cross of Iron, very dark ending. 4) Der Untergang...

In WW1 Donitz was a watch officer in a U-boat in the Med. He got his idea of ''wolf pack'' from surface attacks on ships at night, realising that a concentration of ships in convoy could be destroyed by a concentration of attacking subs. I thought he was a junior u-boat commander in the First World...

An important point has been made here, for to long Hollywood has made movies about 10 foot tall Americans who shit bullets fighting against firstly the nasty Red Indians, then the dastardly Germans, followed by the evil Soviets. I'm glad Japan has made a film about her own involvement in World war 2...

Had a look on IMDB and they only have one goof listed, so what I mentioned seems to have go unnoticed... Anachronisms: In the scene where a seaplane lands at sea to rescue the crew, the plane used is a Grumman Albatross. However, this aircraft was not put into service until 1949. The real life aircr...

Coming back to Togo, he knew the Russian weakness was that the Russians were on their way to Vladivostock, where they would be rested and replenished, and hence become a much more effective force. Togo had to attack before the Russians reached Vladivostok, and had the advantage of being between the...

Had she survived the Japanese attack on Pearl would you consider the US Arizona (or her friends) a better ship than any of the new US battleships, US Iowa or the South Dakota for example? The point I'm trying to make it despite there large loses the US were not really hurt to badly at Pearl. They we...

For the sake of having someone different I am going to nominate Rear Admiral Erich Bey. However to be honest I’m not sure if he really was the worst Admiral, more a victim of politics, circumstance and a lack of imagination. Rear Admiral Erich Bey certainly represents many of the problems with the G...