Britain to send troops, ship and helicopters to Sierra Leone to combat Ebola
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I have, and about the rest of the war. You do remember the rest of the war don't you?
Oh look who I'm asking, you think the war ended in 1940. I blame the poor state of your schools for that. Forget I asked, lol.
It sure is, you Brits brutally made sure of that.
It doesn't look like it. You think the Battle of Britain, which you appear to have never heard of, did not stave off the threat of a Nazi invasion of Britain.
Nope.
World War II lasted from 1939 to 1945 and, unlike most of its participants, including Captain America, Britain fought in it from the beginning to the end, actually all the way through.
In fact, Britain and Japan are the only two participating powers to have fought both WWI AND WWII from beginning to end.
Everyone else, including Captain America, either joined part of the way through after there had already been much bloodshed or they surrendered (Japan's surrender in WWII ended the war). But Britain and Japan went all the way through both world wars.
Too right we did. For once we agree on something. The Sierra Leonians can thank their lucky stars that English is now the main language of their country rather than Temne.
I blame the poor state of your school system. But I'm impressed you can admit your failings.
Only you would be proud of that kind of butchery.
Blame what you like. I ain't bothered.
Personally, I blame me not being able to remember the rest of WWII down to the fact I wasn't born then.
I forgot that you're an expert on the colonial history of Sierra Leone.
Eleven is a number. In English, it is the smallest positive integer requiring three syllables and the largest prime number with a single-morpheme name. Its etymology originates from a Germanic compound ainlif meaning "one left".
11 is the 5th smallest prime number. It is the smallest two-digit prime number in the decimal base; as well as, of course, in undecimal (where it is the smallest two-digit number). It is also the smallest three-digit prime in ternary, and the smallest four-digit prime in binary, but a single-digit prime in bases larger than 11, such as duodecimal, hexadecimal, vigesimal and sexagesimal. 11 is the fourth Sophie Germain prime, the third safe prime, the fourth Lucas prime, the first repunit prime, and the second good prime. Although it is necessary for n to be prime for 2n − 1 to be a Mersenne prime, the converse is not true: 211 − 1 = 2047 which is 23 × 89. The next prime is 13, with which it comprises a twin prime. 11 is an Eisenstein with no imaginary part and real part of the form 3n − 1. Displayed on a calculator, 11 is a strobogrammatic prime and a dihedral prime because it reads the same whether the calculator is turned upside down or reflected on a mirror, or both.
If a number is divisible by 11, reversing its digits will result in another multiple of 11. As long as no two adjacent digits of a number added together exceed 9, then multiplying the number by 11, reversing the digits of the product, and dividing that new number by 11, will yield a number that is the reverse of the original number. (For example: 142,312 x 11 = 1,565,432. 2,345,651 / 11 = 213,241.)
11 Downing Street is the official residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
11 Americans fought in the RAF in the Battle of Britain, one half of one percent of all those who fought in the RAF in the battle.
The Eagles Squadron numbered just 250 personnel - a thousandth of the entire manpower of the RAF - and lasted just over a year, before it left the RAF and joined the United States Army Air Force when the US entered the war.
Under 20% of those who fought in the RAF in WWII were foreigners.
Fish don't care that they're wet either.
Neither was I, but I know more about it than you. I still blame your poor school system.
I wouldn't say expert, but compared to you, I'm a freaking Rhodes Scholar on it.
Just a cure, if all goes well.
Show on canadian Scientest who came up with ZMapp
lolz.
Well I guess brits can cut and paste.
You fail...
According to the Royal AF Museum you are wrong.
Eagle Squadrons
Foreigners (including Americans) won the air skirmish known as the Battle of Britain.
The briddish had to be bailed out again.
Britain is the second-most powerful country in the world.
You don't know more about it than me. For Canadians, WWII was something which merely happened far away that they played a minor part in. However, WWII is more closer to home for the British. It was partly fought in Britain, and it was fought right on our doorstep, and thousands of our buildings still bear the scars of the Blitz. We've been immersed in the conflict since we were at primary school. I know more about WWII than you.
Ahhhh. Oxford University's world famous Rhodes Scholarship, the world's most prestigious scholarship. So much for Britain's "poor school system".
Unless the British get there first with the vaccine that they've developed - which could already be on its way there on the RFA Argus.
Meanwhile, the British have sent a floating hospital to West Africa with all the very best treatment available from the country with the world's best health service to help Sierra Leone's Ebola victims and give them the care they need.
Meanwhile Canada, as usual, does absolutely nothing, whilst Canadians whinge and moan that there is a country out there that IS doing something to help.
Well, either the RAF Museum is wrong or there were 250 Yanks in the Eagles Squadrons but only 11 of them actually took part in the Battle of Britain.
There were 11 Yanks who fought in the Battle of Britain.
The RAF Roll of Honour for the Battle of Britain recognises 574 pilots from countries other than the United Kingdom as flying at least one authorised operational sortie with an eligible unit during the battle's period from 10th July to 31st October 1940, alongside 2,353 British pilots.
Battle of Britain pilots by nationality
British: 2353
Polish: 145
New Zealanders: 135
Canadians: 112
Czechoslovakians (modern Czechs and Slovaks): 88
Australians: 32
Belgians: 30
South Africans: 25
Irish: 15
French: 13
Americans: 11
Southern Rhodesians (modern Zimbabweans): 3
Ceylonese (modern Sri Lankans): 1
Jamaicans: 1
Unknown: 7
However, it is according to Kenneth G Wynn's Men of the Battle of Britain, published in 1999, that 11 Americans fought in the Battle of Britain.
The RAF itself, on the other hand, recognises only SEVEN Americans who took part in the battle.
The total amount of foreigners who flew in the RAF in the Battle of Britain is only around 19%.
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RAF Eagle Squadron - YouTube
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"Its a sign of the times when an all American unit trains in Britain to fight our battles..."
That's right. Saved the brits.
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"Its a sign of the times when an all American unit trains in Britain to fight our battles..."
That's right. Saved the brits.
What, seven or eleven of you?
The Battle of Britain was a decisive British victory. We inflicted Nazi Germany's first major defeat.
Try 3 Squadrons.
As the Brit General said... "You were the vanguard of the RAF."
Ohhhhh... that's got to hurt!
Never could.
A few dogfights won by foreigners.
The Battle of Britain happened every day in the South Pacific.
The Japanese did nothing but crush the brits. So much so that they evacuated the South Pacific and didn't return until the end of the war.
The Canadian losses protecting the British colony of Hong Kong were horrific.
WWII: The Battle of Hong Kong - Canada at War
On 8 December 1941, a day after the its Air Force had devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbour, the Japanese Empire launched an attack on the Britsh Crown Colony of Hong Kong.
In the ensuing battle, the Royal Rifles of Canada and the Winnipeg Grenadiers – the first Canadian ground units to see action in the Second World War—fought valiantly to defend the colony. Initially, the Grenadiers were dispatched to the Gin Drinkers’ Line, a chain of defenses in the New Territories on the Chinese Mainland, to hold back the onslaught. But heavy air raids and artillery attacks forced the Commonwealth troops to withdraw from the New Territories to their garrison on the island of Hong Kong. After several days of heavy bombardment, the Japanese stormed the island’s northern beaches on the night of 18 December
The British surrender at Singapore epitomized British participation in the Pacific Theater of WWII. A disgrace.
Before the Battle of Midway the United States requested the assistance of a Royal Navy aircraft carrier to even the odds with the Imperial Japanese Navy. The British turned down the request. Instead, available Royal Navy aircraft carriers remained in port in the Indian Ocean. The British refused to give battle to the Japanese.