War is declared

[Dogberry]

70 years ago today in fact.



My parents actually remember it.

We entered the war on behalf of Poland, but in the event we did nothing to help them.

Years of appeasement and failing to arm took their toll.


http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thre...20090903191612

[Misteria]

My mum would agree with you, she still remembers being sent off to the farms as well as the hunger from lack of food.

[Dick Tator]

And now the people of the UK have been disarmed... Sad for such a proud and noble people.

[IFF]

i recently read "behind closed doors" by laurence rees and reading it , i got a very big feeling that the people of Poland were betrayed

especially painful for general anders and the polish people who fought under him in the british army.

also, there was a film about the mass murder of polish officers at katyn forest by the soviet union. the opening scene was particularly poignant with on one side Polish people fleeing the Germans and on the other side, other polish people fleeing the Russians.

[Dogberry]

Originally Posted by Dick Tator

And now the people of the UK have been disarmed... Sad for such a proud and noble people.

Disarmed? How?

[Dogberry]

Originally Posted by IFF

i recently read "behind closed doors" by laurence rees and reading it , i got a very big feeling that the people of Poland were betrayed

especially painful for general anders and the polish people who fought under him in the british army.

Well i guess we could have not declared war, or supported germany.

Let down perhaps, not betrayed.

[Misteria]

True Dogberry, my uncles ( aunts hubby) brother was killed while landing in parachute during the war.
That was soon after the 2nd world war, 2 wars one after the other and that awful influenza during world war 1 also killed countless soldiers.
Britain is certainly an old battle axe to admire!

[Cd.]

Originally Posted by Dogberry

70 years ago today in fact.



My parents actually remember it.

We entered the war on behalf of Poland, but in the event we did nothing to help them.

Years of appeasement and failing to arm took their toll.


http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thre...20090903191612

My parents did too.

My father was actually in the Montana National Guard when the war began in Europe.

He told me an interesting story. Everyone in the US likes to say where they were on December 7th 1941. My father told me he was in Fort Lewis Washington and was sleeping rough. He got done with a training exercise and it was raining so he slept in when someone woke him and told him that Pearl Harbor was attacked. My dad shook his head and then went back to sleep.

[Malcolm Wright]

Growing up in London in the 70's, 30 plus years after the end of the war, we played with tanks and RAF planes, and built plastic Luftwaffe models. We went looking for WWII munitions. The war was very much in our minds even after all that time. I still have some interest in that era and it is the only conflict I can say with certainty I would have enlisted to participate in, had I been alive in those days.

I agree with Dogberry - I'm thankful Britain entered the war. Other countries took much longer to decide to.

[Dick Tator]

Originally Posted by Malcolm Wright

Growing up in London in the 70's, 30 plus years after the end of the war, we played with tanks and RAF planes, and built plastic Luftwaffe models. We went looking for WWII munitions. The war was very much in our minds even after all that time. I still have some interest in that era and it is the only conflict I can say with certainty I would have enlisted to participate in, had I been alive in those days.

I agree with Dogberry - I'm thankful Britain entered the war. Other countries took much longer to decide to.

We shouldn't have joined the European theater.. I mean, seriously... Japan attacks us so we declare war on Germany?

[Misteria]

Originally Posted by Malcolm Wright

Growing up in London in the 70's, 30 plus years after the end of the war, we played with tanks and RAF planes, and built plastic Luftwaffe models. We went looking for WWII munitions. The war was very much in our minds even after all that time. I still have some interest in that era and it is the only conflict I can say with certainty I would have enlisted to participate in, had I been alive in those days.

I agree with Dogberry - I'm thankful Britain entered the war. Other countries took much longer to decide to.

You made me go back in time, like those old men sitting on the park benches and sharing their life stories

I was in Glasgow in the 70's i still remember seeing where the bombs landed and all those war torn buildings by the explosions, i also remember how depressing it was way back then.
When i returned in the early 80's it was an amazilngly interesting city with loads of cleaning up of old buildings as well as new buildings.
I am also glad to say that UK is a tough cookie.

[Dogberry]

Originally Posted by Malcolm Wright

Growing up in London in the 70's, 30 plus years after the end of the war, we played with tanks and RAF planes, and built plastic Luftwaffe models. We went looking for WWII munitions. The war was very much in our minds even after all that time. I still have some interest in that era and it is the only conflict I can say with certainty I would have enlisted to participate in, had I been alive in those days.

I agree with Dogberry - I'm thankful Britain entered the war. Other countries took much longer to decide to.

Indeed, it was the right decision, and one of the few times in our history where we can rightfully claim the moral high ground.

Originally Posted by Dick Tator

We shouldn't have joined the European theater.. I mean, seriously... Japan attacks us so we declare war on Germany?

Germany decalared war on the US

Originally Posted by Misteria

You made me go back in time, like those old men sitting on the park benches and sharing their life stories

I was in Glasgow in the 70's i still remember seeing where the bombs landed and all those war torn buildings by the explosions, i also remember how depressing it was way back then.
When i returned in the early 80's it was an amazilngly interesting city with loads of cleaning up of old buildings as well as new buildings.
I am also glad to say that UK is a tough cookie.

You do move around alot misty!

My parents remember the bombing well, and the rockets.

[Dick Tator]

Originally Posted by Dogberry

Germany decalared war on the US

So, we could have just built up massive defenses, dealt with Japan, and let Germany waste their resources trying to fight Russia... I mean, yeah, they might have had bombing runs on Detroit and Chicago, but who gives a ****?

[Misteria]

Originally Posted by Dogberry

Indeed, it was the right decision, and one of the few times in our history where we can rightfully claim the moral high ground.



Germany decalared war on the US



You do move around alot misty!

My parents remember the bombing well, and the rockets.

I am a survivor of the late 70's era teeny bopper boom of saturday night fever as well as the Osmonds, do you remember them?
personally i detested their cheesy smiles !!