Your favourite historical quote
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Sheep
Orange Shrooms!
'Germany will win the war as sure as the sun revolves around the moon'
German propoganda newspaper in the occupation of the Jersey Islands.
German propoganda newspaper in the occupation of the Jersey Islands.
Adler17
Prussian Feldmarschall
dgfred, Dönitz was nearly right.
Adler
Adler
FriendlyFire
Codex WMDicanious
" We had to choose between two brutal dictators, we prefer the one that can speak russian " During the Great patriotic war.
Adler17 said:
I agree!
. Look back at my earlier post of Churchill. The allies did makegreat advances in sub (u-boat) warfare very quickly, but the losses were
indeed staggering!
. I have always wondered how those guys couldmentally stand being underwater with depth charges, cramped conditions,
poor air quality and all the other rigors of U-boat/ Sub warfare without going
out of their minds
- Is it bravery, craziness or what? 
"If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?" - Thomas Jefferson
And "I just got there first with the most men" was General Nathan Bedford Forrest in the US Civil War.
And "I just got there first with the most men" was General Nathan Bedford Forrest in the US Civil War.
Lozzy_Ozzy
Rapture
Quote from a speech made by Mr.T
"First name MR, middle name PERIOD, last name... T!"
"First name MR, middle name PERIOD, last name... T!"
nonconformist
Miserable
dgfred said:Another U-boat one:
'I will show that the U-boat alone can win the war... nothing is impossible to
us!'Admiral Karl Doenitz
He would have been right had he had U-boats!
Betrayed
The eye of the wolf...
"Paska reissu, mutta tulipahan tehtyä."
Unknown finnish soldier after the Winter War.
By the way for those who don't know what it means, ( ) it means:
"****ty trip, but we did it!"
or something like that.
Unknown finnish soldier after the Winter War.
By the way for those who don't know what it means, (
) it means:"****ty trip, but we did it!"
or something like that.
Reno
The Studio Ghibli Fanatic
actually many people said that in the finnish army and that saying came after the Lappland war .(Lapin sota)
nonconformist
Miserable
dgfred said:Do you mean more U-boats?
Yeah, I think by '45 there were maybe 6 U-boats deplyed in the atlantic.
nonconformist said:
I got ya
. The book I'm reading now 'Torpedo Junction' states that in 1942when the U-boats did so much killing off the coast of NC--- there were
ONLY 6 U-boats doing the damage.
Six more were supposed to go andreap the dividends but were diverted to a suspected British 'invasion' around
the Norway front
, that never materialized. Things may have beenmuch different with double the amount of U-boats, when only 6 sunk so many
ships by themselves
.
Thorgalaeg
Deity
"Maricón el último"
Admiral Federico Gravina.
Admiral Federico Gravina.
Turtleneck
Calling London
"Never Forget"
(Holocaust)
(Holocaust)
Companiero
proletarian par excelence
What about most pathetic quote?
"Ich bin ein Berliner." - Reagan
"Ich bin ein Berliner." - Reagan
Nobody
Gangster
that was JFK
Companiero said:
yes it was kennedy and no it wasnt pathetic,,, it was a GREAT part of the speech.. specially at the time, when a city and the world were divided by a wall. kennedy went to assure the ppl on the other side that " good" hasnt given up on them, keep fighting against the " evil" communist. That and to send a message to the russians.... were still here.. and my look how weve gotten stronger.
very important part of the cold war it was
here is a link to the whole speech in case u havent read it.
or maybey need to re read it.
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/jfkichbineinberliner.html
and well as far as a quote goes..
" whats up doc?"
i love that one
yaroslav
Emperor
nonconformist
Miserable
dgfred said:I got ya
when the U-boats did so much killing off the coast of NC--- there were
ONLY 6 U-boats doing the damage.
reap the dividends but were diverted to a suspected British 'invasion' around
the Norway front
much different with double the amount of U-boats, when only 6 sunk so many
ships by themselves
When the Americans first entered the war (and for that matter the British as well, but I think it was mostly the Americans), htey were so unexperienced in anti-submarine tactics, the German U-boats has what they clalled their "happy time" in the "Great [American] turkey shoot".
Also, Das Boot, the film is very poignant after two U-boats cross each other, and it turns out to be and old friend of the commander, and after exchanging brief Aldis signals, the commander goes into a fury and shout at his crew something like "We have six boats in the whole Atlantic, and here two almost collide!"
