Today In History

Replied by snowman on topic Today In History

Someone else said this

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"Straight and narrow is the path."

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Replied by Nikita on topic Today In History

The factors of the landslide victory of the Nazi armies in 1940 are known. non-exhaustive list:

- A cowardly passivity and even odious complacency of Western European democracies in front of the ambitions of Hitler and the rise of the Nazi forces.
- A deep lethargy of staffs who have fallen asleep at the end of the first world war without to change their doctrine, regardless from the past conflict, not see coming technological developments. We fell asleep on its laurels for twenty years, while Hitler's Germany invented the armored division, dive bombing and parachute raid.
- A failure to take account of the psychological factor, the rage of the defeated and his desire for revenge.
- A pityful incompetence of the military thinkers in office at the time, aging and paunchy, braced on obsolete tactical and strategic plans and spending most of their time to block any modern thought (see what happened in France where de Gaulle was pretty alone to feel the wind of change ...)
- A daring and brilliant inventiveness of the Germans strategists who learned all the lessons of the WW1 and were determined to change that, even by sweeping the old concepts.

Facing this, the soldiers of western democracies had, in the best case, only their valor. Insufficent, even if not useless ...

We were fucked, in beauty, by smarter people, more daring, more inventive, more able to use their military resources and who were more determined to wage war and to win it.

Who dares wins, it is true everywhere ...

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Replied by ShayoX on topic Today In History

American and Japan Pacific Fleet. -> AMERICA FLEET JAPAN FLEET
USS Enterprise

USS Lexington

USS Hornet

USS Yorktown

IJN Akagi

IJN Kaga

IJN Shokaku

IJN Zuikaku

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Replied by Maki on topic Today In History

07 MAY 1915

In early May 1915, several New York newspapers published a warning by the German Embassy in Washington, D.C., that Americans traveling on British or Allied ships in war zones did so at their own risk. The announcement was placed on the same page as an advertisement of the imminent sailing of the Lusitania liner from New York back to Liverpool. The sinkings of merchant ships off the south coast of Ireland prompted the British Admiralty to warn the Lusitania to avoid the area or take simple evasive action, such as zigzagging to confuse U-boats plotting the vessel’s course.

THE LUSITANIA SINKS: MAY 7, 1915
The captain of the Lusitania ignored the British Admiralty’s recommendations, and at 2:12 p.m. on May 7 the 32,000-ton ship was hit by an exploding torpedo on its starboard side. The torpedo blast was followed by a larger explosion, probably of the ship’s boilers, and the ship sank off the south coast of Ireland in less than 20 minutes.
It was revealed that the Lusitania was carrying about 173 tons of war munitions for Britain, which the Germans cited as further justification for the attack. The United States eventually protested the action, and Germany apologized and pledged to end unrestricted submarine warfare. However, in November of that same year a U-boat sunk an Italian liner without warning, killing more than 270 people, including more than 25 Americans. Public opinion in the United States began to turn irrevocably against Germany.

AMERICA ENTERS WORLD WAR I
On January 31, 1917, Germany, determined to win its war of attrition against the Allies, announced it would resume unrestricted warfare in war-zone waters. Three days later, the United States broke diplomatic relations with Germany, and just hours after that the American ship Housatonic was sunk by a German U-boat.

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Replied by ShayoX on topic Today In History

Doolittle Raid. Saturday, April 1942 Air raid leaded and planned by Lt. Colonel Doolittle on Tokyo using 16 B-25s They removed turrets, and replaced them with black painted broomsticks.
Bombers could take off from Hornet, barely but couldn't land, so landing was planned in China airfields
VIDEO ABOUT THE RAID <--LINK

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