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Link Posted: 4/16/2022 5:45:54 PM EDT
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I don't think I'd go as far to say that they were bad.  I think you should save that opinion for the Italians in WWII.  

Germany was pretty successful for most of the war.  It was mostly their Army too, since the German Navy and Airforce never had the numbers to be decisive.  

Contrary to popular belief, they didn't have overwhelming numbers of mechanized and armored units in the war.  They didn't have massive manpower or fuel reserves like the Allies.  Much of the Germany Army was light infantry.  
They had pretty good weapons, at least at first.  The MG42 machine gun and Flak88 were very good.  However, the K98 rifle and MP40 were mediocre compared to Allied small arms.  The STG44 was great, but produced late in the war and in small numbers.
They had good tactics, leaders, and morale.  I'd suggest looking at the Allied campaign in Italy after the Italians surrendered.  That was largely an infantry campaign since the terrain and bottlenecks were hard for tanks.  The Germans held them in Italy until the end of the war, which is telling.  

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The German superman of WWII is a myth a lot of you seem to have bought into. They fucking sucked. The Kaisers Army would have stomped a mud whole in their ass almost as bad as we did. My one German family member on my dads side who survived the war surrendered to the British in N. Africa. His job was to take care of horses. Nobody from my moms side of the family remembers seeing any horses that weren't dead German horses or dead stolen French horses. They had trucks, because they didn't suck at war. To be fair though he did manage to stay in America after the war which probably took some talent because he was a British POW but I digress.


I don't think I'd go as far to say that they were bad.  I think you should save that opinion for the Italians in WWII.  

Germany was pretty successful for most of the war.  It was mostly their Army too, since the German Navy and Airforce never had the numbers to be decisive.  

Contrary to popular belief, they didn't have overwhelming numbers of mechanized and armored units in the war.  They didn't have massive manpower or fuel reserves like the Allies.  Much of the Germany Army was light infantry.  
They had pretty good weapons, at least at first.  The MG42 machine gun and Flak88 were very good.  However, the K98 rifle and MP40 were mediocre compared to Allied small arms.  The STG44 was great, but produced late in the war and in small numbers.
They had good tactics, leaders, and morale.  I'd suggest looking at the Allied campaign in Italy after the Italians surrendered.  That was largely an infantry campaign since the terrain and bottlenecks were hard for tanks.  The Germans held them in Italy until the end of the war, which is telling.  

Italian Campaign WWII


Would the Kaisers Army have dislodged Hitlers Army in Italy? The only honest answer is yes. We beat both. Explain like I'm 5 how the German army would have held Italy had it not been deemed irrelevant and bypassed for the D Day Normandy invasion. BTW we won that too...
Link Posted: 4/16/2022 5:47:58 PM EDT
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Had the Waffen SS had the same equipment, weapons and air support as the WW2 US army - they would have been practically unbeatable.
Link Posted: 4/16/2022 5:48:16 PM EDT
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The borrowed Valor guy made it. Always had retarded insights into things he didn't understand because he never saw combat and did fuck all during the wars. He made cool BS threads like I do, but tried to debate his betters that actually knew what was up with modern infantry combat. That thread was dumb as fuck. It was 44 pages that boiled down to wear lowas or merrels. @Daemon or @RustedAce know the guy. Claimed to be some Swedish SF sniper dude or some shit. He made a thread about a hat he made that covered up his bald spot and I jerked off to it in the back ground of a porn I was watching and told him about it and he never got back to me because he was a little bitch I assume.
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Wasn’t there a member here who made a pretty good thread on the infantry?  I think it was titled the art of the foot soldier, or something like that.  Might not have said who had the best infantry, but more about the art of a foot soldier with history thrown in.  Pretty cool thread.


The borrowed Valor guy made it. Always had retarded insights into things he didn't understand because he never saw combat and did fuck all during the wars. He made cool BS threads like I do, but tried to debate his betters that actually knew what was up with modern infantry combat. That thread was dumb as fuck. It was 44 pages that boiled down to wear lowas or merrels. @Daemon or @RustedAce know the guy. Claimed to be some Swedish SF sniper dude or some shit. He made a thread about a hat he made that covered up his bald spot and I jerked off to it in the back ground of a porn I was watching and told him about it and he never got back to me because he was a little bitch I assume.


Ahh, the long range recon patrol dude.

Thought I remembered Primuspilum having some insight into infantry, as well. Haven’t seen him post in ages, hope he’s doing alright these days.  
Link Posted: 4/16/2022 5:50:39 PM EDT
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This. Superior, i would say.
Link Posted: 4/16/2022 5:50:57 PM EDT
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My infantry company was on average 7 inches tall and 15 pounds heavier than the most elite spartan soldiers. We had a better diet, more and better education, knew everything about them, and had guns.
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and hopefully with less anal sex.
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Some of the best there is and the Aussies and Kiwis as well. All based on the Brit model, top include us.  Strong, responsible NCO corp and good officers.
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and hopefully with less anal sex.
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My infantry company was on average 7 inches tall and 15 pounds heavier than the most elite spartan soldiers. We had a better diet, more and better education, knew everything about them, and had guns.



and hopefully with less anal sex.


We had three thousand percent more anal sex. Mostly just with each other.
Link Posted: 4/16/2022 5:54:28 PM EDT
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“The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!”

-some woman
Link Posted: 4/16/2022 5:56:49 PM EDT
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“The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!”

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That was my grandma she has two skulls and 7 kids from some jar head she hooked up with in the late 40s. She's dead now. He died in the 1960s. She died last year.
Link Posted: 4/16/2022 6:10:56 PM EDT
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Except for a few elite formations, the Army did a poor job man for man compared to the USMC or their opponents. The Official History discusses this in Ch. 1.

https://history.army.mil/html/books/002/2-2/CMH_Pub_2-2.pdf
Link Posted: 4/16/2022 6:12:31 PM EDT
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Bot particularly.

Getting the leg up on unprepared outdated forces doesn't take much.

They had a great NCO corps though
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Like ever in history? We obviously have our faults, but the amount of success derived from the American infantrymens audacity to dare seems unrivaled. Obviously modern combined arms help but throughout our history as a nation we have many instances where we prevailed as a nation on the battlefield because nobody told us we couldn't do that or they did and we didn't believe them. Maybe I'm wrong and thinking of my time with too much nostalgia as I have a beer and lap some scope rings but I honestly believe the American military of the past 21 years has gone beyond all others and created some of the most highly motivated and well disciplined soldiers to ever exist on this earth.
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Hand to hand? Id take Spartan over anyone in our current military.

Also, redo your thesis while eliminating any kind of air or armor support.
Link Posted: 4/16/2022 6:17:21 PM EDT
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He made a thread about a hat he made that covered up his bald spot and I jerked off to it in the back ground of a porn I was watching and told him about it and he never got back to me because he was a little bitch I assume.
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Link Posted: 4/16/2022 6:21:06 PM EDT
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If Americans were fighting in Ukraine right now they would have been annihilated. Don’t take my word for it,this was Trump’s national security advisor:

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Link Posted: 4/16/2022 6:27:43 PM EDT
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Nepal
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Hand to hand? Id take Spartan over anyone in our current military.

Also, redo your thesis while eliminating any kind of air or armor support.
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Like ever in history? We obviously have our faults, but the amount of success derived from the American infantrymens audacity to dare seems unrivaled. Obviously modern combined arms help but throughout our history as a nation we have many instances where we prevailed as a nation on the battlefield because nobody told us we couldn't do that or they did and we didn't believe them. Maybe I'm wrong and thinking of my time with too much nostalgia as I have a beer and lap some scope rings but I honestly believe the American military of the past 21 years has gone beyond all others and created some of the most highly motivated and well disciplined soldiers to ever exist on this earth.


Hand to hand? Id take Spartan over anyone in our current military.

Also, redo your thesis while eliminating any kind of air or armor support.


Man to man with a Spartan warrior? Me Vs. Him? I'm bigger and stronger, better trained, stronger bones. I am a nutrition rich animal that didn't exist in his world. If we fight nude in the roman colleseum a millenia later i will get his turds pregnant while a crowd cheers.
Link Posted: 4/16/2022 6:31:32 PM EDT
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If Americans were fighting in Ukraine right now they would have been annihilated. Don’t take my word for it,this was Trump’s national security advisor:

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If Americans where fighting in Ukraine right now the Russian state would no longer exist.
Link Posted: 4/16/2022 6:33:01 PM EDT
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You don't seem to want to accept the fact you're dealing with an expert in guerrilla warfare, with a man who's the best, with guns, with knives, with his bare hands. A man who's been trained to ignore pain, ignore weather, to live off the land, to eat things that would make a billy goat puke. In Vietnam his job was to dispose of enemy personnel. To kill! Period!
Link Posted: 4/16/2022 6:33:33 PM EDT
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Do other countries have "woke" rainbow-haired trans soldiers, fighting racism and patriarchy?  Negative - no other has country has the "caliber" of the current "new" woke military Obama and his ilk ushered in.
Link Posted: 4/16/2022 6:33:38 PM EDT
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German infantry vs. American & British infantry

ms gamboolgals father was in  the 101st all the way thru WW2, in all the fights and he was never wounded.  He was in the original bunch that started at Taccoa.  He was in the 501 PIR,  HQ 3, 3rd Battalion.

I would talk  to him for hours about growing up poor in East Texas before he joined the Paratroopers and then  of his war experiences.

Mr. Beam would not talk of the killing outright but he did  tell me on more than one occasion  that he had utmost respect for the  German Soldiers.  He said they were excellent soldiers - tough and would kill you in the blink of  a eye.

Mr. Beam passed in 2008 and I miss him  to this day.  He was a father to  me.

ETA  -  I can't figure how to  post pics or I would of Mr. Beam.   One is of him at Nuremberg when he was a guard and also on Eisenhower's Honor Guard. He escorted several of the Nazi's to and from the Trials and some to the Gallows.

My uncle fought the Japs - would not talk of it at all.  Same for some other relatives that fought the Japenese - they all had hard feelings till they died.
Link Posted: 4/16/2022 6:37:42 PM EDT
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Do you even lose two world wars bro?

The horse drawn Wehrmacht that had to use captured tanks and never standardized any vehicles?

Yeah, we beat them.  Make all the excuses you want for them - we beat them.
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Link Posted: 4/16/2022 6:39:51 PM EDT
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Beat me.  I doubt there is any country anywhere to rival the Third Reich on quality of soldiers.  On a man for man basis, their infantry and most other arms were better than ours.  However, by the time we got into the game Germany was on the downhill slide and was logistically destroyed and moral fading by the time we invaded France.  Even by the end the German soldier was fighting above his pay grade, overall.  Add in the Waffen SS premier divisions and the fighting quality goes even higher.  They were not unbeatable, but they performed at a level hardly ever seen before or since.
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Beat me.  I doubt there is any country anywhere to rival the Third Reich on quality of soldiers.  On a man for man basis, their infantry and most other arms were better than ours.  However, by the time we got into the game Germany was on the downhill slide and was logistically destroyed and moral fading by the time we invaded France.  Even by the end the German soldier was fighting above his pay grade, overall.  Add in the Waffen SS premier divisions and the fighting quality goes even higher.  They were not unbeatable, but they performed at a level hardly ever seen before or since.


This
Link Posted: 4/16/2022 6:41:14 PM EDT
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Man to man with a Spartan warrior? Me Vs. Him? I'm bigger and stronger, better trained, stronger bones. I am a nutrition rich animal that didn't exist in his world. If we fight nude in the roman colleseum a millenia later i will get his turds pregnant while a crowd cheers.
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Link Posted: 4/16/2022 6:43:01 PM EDT
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The Roman Empire also comes to mind.
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Do you even SPARTA!   bro?


The Roman Empire also comes to mind.
Both of which lasted far longer than the US has been in existence. Also, both of which had enormous armies spread throughout their empires.

The United States' ability to project power anywhere in the world within 24hrs is unrivaled. Our pilot's training is unrivaled. Our technology is unrivaled. Our men and women have done A LOT with small numbers, and high tech. But when the meat meets the metal, we are also unrivaled in tactics, bravery, and sheer fucking will power to get the mission done.
Link Posted: 4/16/2022 6:43:13 PM EDT
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The better question is: has any nation produced the quality of logistics that the United States military has?
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The German military fielded a better military in the 19 teens than Germany fielded in the 1930s and that military lost so bad they started another war in the 1930s where they lost so bad the amount of rape that went on still impacts the type of porn they produce today and they are still afraid of Russia.
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No modern military has, or will, field a military as competent and capable as the German military in the 1930s. The US military derives most of its capability from technology.


The German military fielded a better military in the 19 teens than Germany fielded in the 1930s and that military lost so bad they started another war in the 1930s where they lost so bad the amount of rape that went on still impacts the type of porn they produce today and they are still afraid of Russia.


They lost so bad because it literally took an alliance of 3 world superpowers to defeat them because that's how much the German military kicked ass.
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and now the panel is changing Fort Lee’s name we’ll have even better logistics. Fort Harriet Tubman! https://www.ajc.com/news/fort-benning-fort-gordon-and-7-other-bases-to-be-renamed/RHCTOAVY4ZBEFKJIPU5KQDUDCM/?outputType=ampAttachment Attached File
Link Posted: 4/16/2022 6:46:31 PM EDT
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I remember the guy you're talking about.  I think it was the primus pylum (?) dude that i was thinking about.  Dont think the primus dude was a bullshitter.  I could be wrong, but Primus seemed like the real deal.
Link Posted: 4/16/2022 6:49:55 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 4/16/2022 6:50:46 PM EDT
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Wasn't there a meme or something here sort of like this......

Shoot at the British and they shoot back.
Shoot at the Germans and they machine gun you.
Shoot at the Americans and they retreat, then 5 minutes later your position is obliterated by artillery/aircraft.


Also, Mongols defeat anyone mentioned in this thread (removing mechanical weapons of course).
Link Posted: 4/16/2022 6:56:36 PM EDT
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If Americans were fighting in Ukraine right now they would have been annihilated. Don't take my word for it,this was Trump's national security advisor:

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NATO would plainly push the Russian's shit in.  And smile while doing it.


Link Posted: 4/16/2022 6:57:59 PM EDT
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I remember the guy you're talking about.  I think it was the primus pylum (?) dude that i was thinking about.  Dont think the primus dude was a bullshitter.  I could be wrong, but Primus seemed like the real deal.
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Primus is legit. As is cincinatus. I think I know primus real world from arms reach. Also the VA guy.
Link Posted: 4/16/2022 6:58:24 PM EDT
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I would agree after seeing the vaunted Russian army act like a bunch of mental hospital escapees.
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I would agree after seeing the vaunted Russian army act like a bunch of mental hospital escapees.
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When you start believing you are the best you stop being the best.

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I would agree after seeing the vaunted Russian army act like a bunch of mental hospital escapees.


The Russian Army has performed exactly as expected.
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Wasn't there a meme or something here sort of like this......

Shoot at the British and they shoot back.
Shoot at the Germans and they machine gun you.
Shoot at the Americans and they retreat, then 5 minutes later your position is obliterated by artillery/aircraft.


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Foot soldiers though.
Link Posted: 4/16/2022 7:01:26 PM EDT
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Napoleonic France is often overlooked. Le Grande Arme conquered pretty much every country in europe. It took 5 worldwide coalitions to put Napoleon down. Its not a coincidence so many military terms are French.
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As the war progressed the quality of the German soldier declined while the quality of the American soldier advanced.They were using a lot of kids and elderly that were barely trained.
Link Posted: 4/16/2022 7:03:10 PM EDT
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No, we're pretty much the best there ever has been.

https://warriorlodge.com/blogs/news/16298760-a-french-soldiers-view-of-us-soldiers-in-afghanistan

The best thing you can have in battle is:
1.  Skill. See elite groups, Spartans, professional armies, etc.
2.  Courage.  See groups that fought bravely due to rigorous and shared values, ethics, morals, laws, etc.  Crusaders, those that would die for one's country/God/belief systems.  I would also place religious fervor here.
3.  Discipline.  Roman Empire is a prime example of this.  
4.  Fear.  Groups that have pushed people into line, drafted them, machine gun those retreating, etc.

I recall that from one of my psych/leadership classes or something.
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Beat me.  I doubt there is any country anywhere to rival the Third Reich on quality of soldiers.  On a man for man basis, their infantry and most other arms were better than ours.  However, by the time we got into the game Germany was on the downhill slide and was logistically destroyed and moral fading by the time we invaded France.  Even by the end the German soldier was fighting above his pay grade, overall.  Add in the Waffen SS premier divisions and the fighting quality goes even higher.  They were not unbeatable, but they performed at a level hardly ever seen before or since.
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Maybe the meth had something to do with it.

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According to Milley last summer the Afghan Army was a force you’d not want to fuck with
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French Foreign Legion

British Marines & SAS—we modeled our SOCOM with their help.
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On next the next episode of DEADLIEST WARRIOR!

Republic Clone troopers vs Imperial Stormtroopers
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Germany for sure.
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The borrowed Valor guy made it. Always had retarded insights into things he didn't understand because he never saw combat and did fuck all during the wars. He made cool BS threads like I do, but tried to debate his betters that actually knew what was up with modern infantry combat. That thread was dumb as fuck. It was 44 pages that boiled down to wear lowas or merrels. @Daemon or @RustedAce know the guy. Claimed to be some Swedish SF sniper dude or some shit. He made a thread about a hat he made that covered up his bald spot and I jerked off to it in the back ground of a porn I was watching and told him about it and he never got back to me because he was a little bitch I assume.
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Wasn’t there a member here who made a pretty good thread on the infantry?  I think it was titled the art of the foot soldier, or something like that.  Might not have said who had the best infantry, but more about the art of a foot soldier with history thrown in.  Pretty cool thread.


The borrowed Valor guy made it. Always had retarded insights into things he didn't understand because he never saw combat and did fuck all during the wars. He made cool BS threads like I do, but tried to debate his betters that actually knew what was up with modern infantry combat. That thread was dumb as fuck. It was 44 pages that boiled down to wear lowas or merrels. @Daemon or @RustedAce know the guy. Claimed to be some Swedish SF sniper dude or some shit. He made a thread about a hat he made that covered up his bald spot and I jerked off to it in the back ground of a porn I was watching and told him about it and he never got back to me because he was a little bitch I assume.


The LRSU guy from the '80s? LRS or LRRP something or other? That's too bad. IIRC he had some strange views about airplanes and home schooling, but was entertaining.
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Yes

The Macedonians under Alexander the Great and his immediate successors

The Romans

The military order of St John’s in the defense of Rhodes and later Malta

Just to name a few

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German infantry vs. American & British infantry

ms gamboolgals father was in  the 101st all the way thru WW2, in all the fights and he was never wounded.  He was in the original bunch that started at Taccoa.  He was in the 501 PIR,  HQ 3, 3rd Battalion.

I would talk  to him for hours about growing up poor in East Texas before he joined the Paratroopers and then  of his war experiences.

Mr. Beam would not talk of the killing outright but he did  tell me on more than one occasion  that he had utmost respect for the  German Soldiers.  He said they were excellent soldiers - tough and would kill you in the blink of  a eye.

Mr. Beam passed in 2008 and I miss him  to this day.  He was a father to  me.

ETA  -  I can't figure how to  post pics or I would of Mr. Beam.   One is of him at Nuremberg when he was a guard and also on Eisenhower's Honor Guard. He escorted several of the Nazi's to and from the Trials and some to the Gallows.

My uncle fought the Japs - would not talk of it at all.  Same for some other relatives that fought the Japenese - they all had hard feelings till they died.
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I had an uncle who fought the Japanese, too.  PTSD & alcoholism.  He would wake up screaming.  His drunken rambling scared me as a kid, but he despised the Japs until he killed himself.

He was furious Japanese cars were being imported to US post war.  On multiple occasions, while sober, he said we “never should have stopped at only 2 atom bombs.”

I can only imagine what he saw & did.
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