Flotilla of 50 'little ships' make journey from Ramsgate to Dunkirk 75 years on
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The Canadian monarchy is the Canadian monarchy. You can deny it all you like but that'll be like denying that the Moon is round.
This is our Canadian Monarchy champ
The very same guys that kept your wee little island from being over run
The very same guys that kept your wee little island from being over run
It did not happen therefor it is not a fact.
The Brits were driven into the English Channel.
Queen Elizabeth II of Canada
It was British soldiers, airmen and sailors and the stoic British people themselves and Sir Winston Churchill who stopped our large island being overrun by the Hun.
It's a fact that if Yank soldiers had been on the continent in the spring of 1940 - and we know that they weren't because you weren't even in the war then - they would have been driven to the sea by the then rampant Hun and would have had to have been bailed out by British fishermen.
Fact... it did not happen.
Fact... when Americans were on the Continent they were not driven back into the sea.
We weren't there. So it cannot be a fact.
But we know how slow Brits are and I can see why you are calling it a fact... brits are uneducated for the most part.
Because you weren't even in the war.
It would have been had you been on the European continent in the spring of 1940 with the Wermacht on the rampage. You either would have been completely wiped out or been rescued by 800-odd British fishing and pleasure boats.
That's right we weren't. We had no need to be. The Brits started it and got their butts kicked and driven into the sea.
Then the Canadians, Anzacs, and Americans bailed them out once again.
No, the Germans started it, just as they started WWI.
The same thing would have happened to Yank soldiers had they been on the European continent in the spring of 1940 (but they weren't because they were just watching proceedings from the sidelines, twiddling their thumbs complacently until the Nips caught them by surprise at Pearl Harbour) in the path of a rampant and rampaging German Army.
It was British soldiers, sailors and airmen, along with the stoic British public and Sir Winston Churchill, who won WWII. America's involvement in the war did not alter the final outcome.
Looks like you have some sort of inferiority complex there.
Looks like there are some lying weasels over in "Old Blighty".
The Brits started it
Looks like there are some lying weasels down in Merca, to. This bozo fancies himself to be some sort of military strategy expert but he can't that simple, basic fact straight.
lead-head Marine!
MARINE!!
Looks like there are some lying weasels over in "Old Blighty".
The Brits started it
Looks like there are some lying weasels down in Merca, to. This bozo fancies himself to be some sort of military strategy expert but he can't that simple, basic fact straight.
lead-head Marine!
MARINE!!
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Somebody just snapped.
If you don't know how to play BL's game then maybe you should find another thread igloo dweller.
Somebody just snapped.
If you don't know how to play BL's game then maybe you should find another thread igloo dweller.
I didn't say there weren't any Canadians at Dunkirk. Looks like you have some sort of inferiority complex there. There were no Canadian units at Dunkirk, as I've already pointed out. Just a few Canuckians serving in the British Army.
Also, good to see that that article from the Telegraph shows just how some officers in the German high command saw it as a big mistake by Hitler to allow the British, French and Belgians to get away scot free at Dunkirk rather than destroying them all.
"We could have wiped out the British Army completely if it weren't for the stupid order of Hitler," Kleist recalled. Certainly, if the BEF had been captured wholesale – more than a quarter of a million PoWs – there is no telling what concessions must have been wrung out of the British government, or whether Churchill could have survived as prime minister if he had demanded a continuation of the war.
Troops of 11th East African Division of the British Army on the road to Kalewa, Burma, during the Chindwin River crossing
That was mainly Canadians who surrendered at Singapore. The British were angry with them afterwards for surrendering too easily without much of a fight.
As for Singapore, we didn't have enough troops and resources to defend it as they were all needed back in Europe against Germany.
There were NO Canadians at Singapore ... not one single one.
Try Hong Kong, Kipper.