A little correction:Fox said:For send 2 or 3 British's best battleships to Singapore and Japs sunk them.
boris116 said:A little correction:
1 Battleship - Price of Wales
1 Battle cruiser - Repulse
They didn't have any air cover and were doomed
sandy said:Spam was regarded as food in UK.
LeEnfield said:Well lets have a look at some of the points you raised, with out the failure at Dieppe would the Normandy landings have been a success?. What did Dieppe teach us or teach Britain who passed the information on.
LeEnfield said:Discussing the mistakes and what was learnt from them are much the same thing, the problem is when you don't learn from your mistakes. Also you have try things to see what the out come will be, some things will fail and others will be a great success. In war you try new tactics and new weapons some will work some won't..
LeEnfield said:Also there were not only Canadians at Dieppe, mind you Hollywood have put quite a large number of Americans in that Battle from time to time.
LeEnfield said:An interesting link on the Raid at Dieppe
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/trlout_gfx_en/TRA13494.html
LeEnfield said:When we entered the war we were short of every thing from ships to planes to tanks to men, and chances had to be taken. Now the Norway expedition although a failure it also hurt the Germans. I think that one of our biggest errors was going into Greece and Crete. We stripped our forces in North Africa of men and materials to send to these places, but not in large enough quantities to win the battles, yet had we kept these men in North Africa and carried on at the Italian Army we might have taken the whole of North Africa before Rommel ever set foot in it.
They were short of the right type of ships.Ollie Garchy said:Quick response:
(1) How can you argue that the British were short of ships in 1939? They even had more subs than German u-boats. [The Germans were the ones short of most everything -- I will provide my stats at a later date, if I remember].
He didn't.(2) How can you argue that Norway was not a failure? The aim of the operation was to seize Norway and cut off Swedish iron ore shipments. The Germans sent the British and French forces packing.
redcoat said:The landing had been successful, and a beach-head had been gained, but due to the German attack on France, the Allies were forced to withdraw.
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