Friday, Jan 30, 2009 at 22:13
FollowupID: 614784 Submitted: Friday, Jan 30, 2009 at 15:40 Gramps (NSW) posted:
Oztroopy,
You've been hiding in the shadows again.
Response:
Hiding in the shadows ... or ignoring .... With apologies to Chubby Checker ... Lets do the twist again ... lolol
1. Suggest you read up on the
events of 4-8/5/1942 and their impact on Japanese strategy and operations thereafter.
Response:
You referring to Midway ??? nearly 6mnths after Pearl Harbour ??? ... as I said in a previous post ...
FollowupID: 614772 Submitted: Friday, Jan 30, 2009 at 14:48
"No one thing decided australias fate at the time."
Even the bickering between the heads of the japanese land and sea forces provided allied forces with opportunities.
2. Exactly my point.
Response:
My point actually ....
FollowupID: 614538 Submitted: Thursday, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:21 OzTroopy posted:
"There was nobody coming to australias' aid at that time"
Pleas to the US ( referred to by FDR as panic and disloyalty ), Misuse of aust troops overseas, submitted plans to concentrate defences below
Brisbane. The place was in quite a state.
3. There will always be a "debt". You're the ones who seem to think it HAS to be paid back ?
Response:
Sighhhhhh .....
FollowupID: 614480 Submitted: Wednesday, Jan 28, 2009 at 23:06 Gramps (NSW) posted:
"Yes, some stuck up snot noses forget the debt we owe the Yanks. Like it or lump it. "
FollowupID: 614538 Submitted: Thursday, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:21 OzTroopy posted:
Additionally ... this country owes NO debt to the U.S. - thats been paid back many times over ... even in blood.
4. The reference to casualties merely points out the MINOR nature of Off-track's alleged "paybacks" not that we should sacrifice an equal number.
Response:
Minor ??????? according to your statement - "21 other Western and Asian nations involved in Korea"
And of course ....the associated total losses in lives and equipment, military and civilian in that theatre alone.????
5. So you believe Korea was solely to satify US interests? You really have the anti-US bug bad, don't you. It was a UN approved, US led (who else could do it) action. We fulfilled our obligations to the UN - end of story.
Response:
a)..According to my summary of economic,military and political, left / right and down the middle publications ... Yes.
b)..Yep ... so bad I now own two american vehicles.
c)..Any one of the other UN participants ... Maybe even
australia, as according to AWM information it was good for training and bolstering of our military.
d).. We fullfilled our obligations to the US, Ourselves and the UN.
6. "
Brisbane line" a total fiction with absolutely no official documents to substantiate it's existence except in the fevered minds of attention seekers.
I suppose you believe in Yowies as well.
Brisbane Line
Response:
Since no other source of info apart from the AWM is of interest to you, I have chosen this item - sourced from another federal building complex ... just across the pond from the AWM so I'm led to believe, so hoping that meets with your limited approval.
Should be genuine enough to show that the concept of a
Brisbane Line ( if needed ) was real enough ...
Site Link
Then I guess, theres always this picture ... reportedly from US archives ...
Site Link
Not to mention reams of other google
search responses of varying levels of credibility.
Would appreciate it if you stopped insinuating that people only believe it was something like a fortified "maginot line " that magically dissapeared along with all govt records of its existence.
It was a concept of defence, of
australia - that thankfully ... was never needed.
7. Check the post again. It specifically states the 20's and 30's. Do you have any idea of when the US officially went to war or is that too hard a concept ?
As usual, you like to blur the FACTS and lie..
Response:
Picking out the titbits to formulate provocative posts is certainly an art with you isnt it. ?? Perhaps you could elaborate on how a manufacturer would know what quantity of particular vehicle models would needed to be built - pre 1941 to provide a total of 90% of those vehicles used up until 1945 in battlefield conditions.
If the big three still had a chrystal ball that could do that ... they wouldn't be in the strife they are in now.
8. Me ? Abusive ? Never. All in the eyes of the beholder.
Response:
LOLOLOLOL
Unless either of you can come up with something new or interesting, I'm happy to accept your surrender - unconditionally.
Response:
That was almost funny ... keep working on that !!!
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614858