<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Hummer Geek:
Wrong war - "goose-stepping" would be WW1. Do you want me to explain it to you? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>
Umm... Ok, I'll bite. How is goose-stepping supposed to be only a WWI reference? Secondly, Prague was the enemy in WWI as in Austria-Hungary along WITH Germany.
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Alec W:
So, the British, Canadians, Australians, Polish, Danish, etc. etc. had nothing to do with WWII? Weird, because I thought America got into the fray kinda late and only after the Japs bombed the piss out of Perl Harbor.
Maybe where I grew up (UK) we have different history lessons? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>
I'm not sure the exclusion was meant anyway, but nearly 300,000 Americans died in WWII and 52,000 of them were in the Pacific. By comparison, a total of about 60,000 British troops died in all of WWII. The U.S. casualties was a tenth of that number in one day, D-Day.
While none of that is anything to be proud of, the U.S. did come to the aid of it's Allies and sacrificed many single individual soldier's lives to stop the Germans.
Of course, one could go on and on about the thousands of Merchant Marines that died before the U.S. entered the war while ferrying supplies and equipment over to Europe to aid in the effort. This from an infant country that had already been there, done that.
So, frankly, I am saying that Hummer Geek's one statement is simply true, but it does not discount other countries' involvement either. The same could be said about the British, because without her soldiers it would be a different story also.