Re:To heck with you, you ingrateful UKian
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Your right chainxor, U-571 was historically incorrect, Hollywood writers and their poetic license be damned. And it is Hollywood that I blame for the ingorance of American youths today, but cannot find out who to blame for the ignorance of the British youths;), believing what is put before them on screens and not reading about them in books. But I have to disagree about who FIRST stole the Enigma Machine from the Germans for it were the Poles (Polish) that accomplished this feat.
http://home.us.net/~encore/Enigma/text.html
I do not endorse all facts in this site but some of the information I have read does coincide with that I have read about the Enigma.
I primary concentrated on the land battles of Patton's 3rd Army and the battles of the high seas concerning Halsey's Fleet. Not of cryptology and cloak and dagger.
Re:To heck with you, you ingrateful UKian
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I will admit that the fact that the Japanese caught most of the Pacific Command of guard during the first few months of the Pacific Theater, but we did finally get our act togehter before they invaded Austraila and India (two of Britains colonies that they could not protect) but at least we could mount counter-attacks and did eventually take back what was ours (Wake Marshall Phillipines). But still in the early months the Japanese were running down the China coast towards India and British ports. If it were not for the American Silent Service and the Flying Tigers of General Chennault the Japs would have taken over both your colonies (India/Austraila).
As for holding your own, yes and no. I do recall the British were in a defensive battle from the get go. German Armor had both the French and British forces on their heels and it was a good thing you had the English Channel protecting you from the Germanic Horde of Hitler's Panzer Corp or England would be speaking German now. And those galant RAF boys that fought the Battle of Brition, for your information, were flying American made "British" Spitfires, not all were but most; America called it the Lend Lease Act, it allowed us to lend/lease our products to Brition without needing to get paid for it right away. America did have a hand in the survival of the British, so, before you go bad mouthing your brother in arms get your facts straight. For I will conceed this about the British: they are hardy folk and had it not been for their stubborness, America would have had two enemies in two different oceans.
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Your right chainxor, U-571 was historically incorrect, Hollywood writers and their poetic license be damned. And it is Hollywood that I blame for the ingorance of American youths today, but cannot find out who to blame for the ignorance of the British youths ;), believing what is put before them on screens and not reading about them in books. But I have to disagree about who FIRST stole the Enigma Machine from the Germans for it were the Poles (Polish) that accomplished this feat.
http://home.us.net/~encore/Enigma/text.html
I do not endorse all facts in this site but some of the information I have read does coincide with that I have read about the Enigma.
I primary concentrated on the land battles of Patton's 3rd Army and the battles of the high seas concerning Halsey's Fleet. Not of cryptology and cloak and dagger.
I will admit that the fact that the Japanese caught most of the Pacific Command of guard during the first few months of the Pacific Theater, but we did finally get our act togehter before they invaded Austraila and India (two of Britains colonies that they could not protect) but at least we could mount counter-attacks and did eventually take back what was ours (Wake Marshall Phillipines). But still in the early months the Japanese were running down the China coast towards India and British ports. If it were not for the American Silent Service and the Flying Tigers of General Chennault the Japs would have taken over both your colonies (India/Austraila). As for holding your own, yes and no. I do recall the British were in a defensive battle from the get go. German Armor had both the French and British forces on their heels and it was a good thing you had the English Channel protecting you from the Germanic Horde of Hitler's Panzer Corp or England would be speaking German now. And those galant RAF boys that fought the Battle of Brition, for your information, were flying American made "British" Spitfires, not all were but most; America called it the Lend Lease Act, it allowed us to lend/lease our products to Brition without needing to get paid for it right away. America did have a hand in the survival of the British, so, before you go bad mouthing your brother in arms get your facts straight. For I will conceed this about the British: they are hardy folk and had it not been for their stubborness, America would have had two enemies in two different oceans.