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Originally Posted by Puratech
Some of the things the Brits did in WW2 were amazing, along with a lot of the plans for if the germans had got onto our island. Lots of the trickery and cunning plans were amazing, the things the soldiers put up with etc, i dont think youd ever get that kind of spirit again.
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You've been watching too many 2WW propoganda films, if we had not dealt with their reconnoitre parties in the English Channel and in the air, they would have formed a Bridgehead that we would never have been able to destroy.
Be thankful for our Commonwealth troops, Russians and Americans. Russia alone is thought to have lost 26, 000,000 people out of a total war loss of 55, 000,000. Truth be told, we would have been well and truely stuffed.
The trickery and cunning plans were fine on a small scale but 750, 000 german troops were in line for the initial invasion. It's not known if more were to be made available but I can assure you, resistance would have been futile. What price for this sceptered isle !
Don't worry about soldiers putting up with hardships, they're good at it. It's innocent civilians putting up with hardships people need to think about.