@SuperbattleshipYamato hard to argue against any of this really. The IJN was so far gone by this point in the war that there’s not really much they could have done to salvage their situation one way or another. The bit about the allies not having many LSTs in general is something I never knew before though.
Visiting Battlefields
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I visited Fort Donelson on the Cumberland River during the Thanksgiving holiday. After seeing the awesome defensive position the South had, the quick surrender of the fort seemed foolish.
Signs of the network of trenches protecting the fort still existed.
I mosted liked the shrine honoring the unknown southern soldiers that were buried in unmarked trenches. The Shrine had these words, “Honor their valor, emulate the devotion with which they gave themselves to the service of their country, let it never be said that their sons in these southern states have forgotten their noble example.”
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As much as I would love to say Canadians DID burn down the White House :lol: :-P, after doing some research I cannot find evidence that we did. I believe it was a bunch of British regulars, along with a contingent of British Marines who had been protecting Canada and were sent down south to fight.
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In two weeks I plan on visiting the Sabine Pass Battle site and doing some fishing.
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I’ll be heading the Pea Ridge Arkansas in June.
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Normandy has to be about Number 1 on everybody’s list. It is mine… sort of like, the epitome of war itself and the massive sacrafice of lives.
Normandy is a sideshow in comparison to any number of battles on the eastern front.
Stalingrad - just for example.
But I hear what you are saying. I’ve been there, and it’s incredible
(Bastogne was definetly my favourite site though)
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Been to Gettysburg, which was really amazing, and Boston, with the freedom trail is really amazing. but like everyone else, i would love to visit Normandy
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I started reading about US civil war 20 years ago and is my favourite subject. Alas have not crossed the Atlantic yet. (want to tip my hat at Jackson’s grave and will cry imagining proud, insulted Cleburne’s fall at Franklin.
Have seen too many English sites to mention. Have Visited Waterloo, Normandy, Bastogne, Flanders all more than once and have slept at sleepy Sedan. I lived inbetween Sword and Gold beaches when at University. (Chose Caen university purposely.) Have stayed in Carentan, St. Mere Eglise and had a beer at Villers Bocage, toasting the world’s greatest tank ace. I have seen his gravestone and stood by the field where his Tiger was ambushed by 5 Shermans.
My holidays are planned around battlefields. Sicily in October. -
Been to the Russian front outside St. Petersburg, Pearl Harbor/Oahu, Okinawa, the Mariana islands, Poland (it still looks like crap), Fort Sumter…with moving to Japan in October, hope to go see Hiroshima/Nagasaki really quick.
Does Detriot count as a Battlefield?
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@wittman:
I started reading about US civil war 20 years ago and is my favourite subject. Alas have not crossed the Atlantic yet. (want to tip my hat at Jackson’s grave and will cry imagining proud, insulted Cleburne’s fall at Franklin.
Have seen too many English sites to mention. Have Visited Waterloo, Â Normandy, Bastogne, Flanders all more than once and have slept at sleepy Sedan. I lived inbetween Sword and Gold beaches when at University. (Chose Caen university purposely.) Have stayed in Carentan, St. Mere Eglise and had a beer at Villers Bocage, toasting the world’s greatest tank ace. Â I have seen his gravestone and stood by the field where his Tiger was ambushed by 5 Shermans.
My holidays are planned around battlefields. Sicily in October.Is the puppet still up on St. Mere Eglise´s  Clocktower as a Reminder of the fights during WWII on D-Day?
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Puppet was there 5 years ago. Cannot imagine they would move it.
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Have just realised I have left a letter “m” off my hero’s name. Who is the idiot? I studied German too!
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The Pea Ridge Battle Fields were beautiful.
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Don’t tease me. I said I will come one day. Whenever I mentioned my need to go to girlfriends they said: “Great. Shopping in New York!”
I do not think they got it.
I am not shopping. I have too much to see!
Suffice to say, will be thinking of mortally wounded Virginians and old aggressive Isaac Trimble. -
July 3rd…
“For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863, the brigades are in position behind the rail fence, the guns are laid and ready in the woods and the furled flags are already loosened to break out and Pickett himself with his long oiled ringlets and his hat in one hand probably and his sword in the other looking up the hill waiting for Longstreet to give the word and it’s all in the balance, it hasn’t happened yet, it hasn’t even begun yet, it not only hasn’t begun yet but there is still time for it not to begin against that position and those circumstances which made more men than Garnett and Kemper and Armistead and Wilcox look grave yet it’s going to begin, we all know that, we have come too far with too much at stake and that moment doesn’t need even a fourteen-year-old boy to think This time. Maybe this time with all this much to lose and all this much to gain: Pennsylvania, Maryland, the world, the golden dome of Washington itself to crown with desperate and unbelievable victory the desperate gamble, the cast made two years ago…
William Faulkner, Intruder In The Dustâ€
We from the south find these words dear to our hearts.
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I once visited the ex-German WWII U-boat pens in St-Nazaire (which are open to tourists) and saw from a distance the ones in Brest (which are still used by the French Navy and are in the restricted military area of the city’s port). Also found by accident a small Atlantic Wall bunker in southwest Britanny. During my visit to the St-Nazaire pens, I picked up as a souvenir a copper U-boat paperweight / pencil sharpener, which is sitting two feet away from me on my desk as I type this.
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i have not been to any battlefields state side, but saw many of the areas where the Korean conflict took place. I was stationed in S.Korea for a year and went every where i could possibly go. The Pusan Perimeter was pretty cool, and so was the 38th parallel. Kinda neat eating chow while overlooking N. Korea.
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common guys that can´t be serious…they found another bomb dropped by the Allies in WW II. in the town where I live…does that count as actual standing in Battlefield?, If not I´m kinda dissapointed :x…hey, makes you kinda think were you walking…the officals say it was a 250 kilo one, …would have made a bigger hole in the constructionsite that´s for sure!..
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Oops!
Today is the anniversary of the Battle of Bosworth(1485). Possibly the second most important battle in English history. Saw the end of the House of York(Richard III, Gloucester, last English monarch killed in battle) and the setting up of the Lancastrian Henry ,father of Henry VIII, later known as Tudor.
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@wittmann:
Richard III, Gloucester, last English monarch killed in battle
That’s an interesting bit of trivia of which I wasn’t aware. I wonder if he would have been considered to have lost that title if George VI had been killed by a Luftwaffe bomb during the Battle of Britain? (As I recall, a bomb did hit the royal palace at one point. George’s wife Elizabeth supposedly later declared in public that she was glad about this because “it makes me feel closer to the people in the East End.”)
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And I had not heard that.
I think England needed the Royal Family, so it would have been a blow to public morale and a great propaganda victory for Goebbles.
Elizabeth would have been the longest reigning monarch already. She is certain to beat Vicoria’s 63 year reign as it is.
Richard III is my favourite monarch. He was a Medieval man who reached the pinnacle of acheivment and died bravely. He saw the battle was in the balance and his “ally” was in the process of defecting, spotting The Pretender, he took his personal guard and charged him. He killed his standard bearer, but was unhorsed, surrounded and probably dispatched by a Welsh Polearmed infantryman.
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