Just had to share with you the BBC Website article on the background to El Alamein….
“And bombing at home was continuing – more than 1,000 bombers attacked Canterbury in June 1942. Thousands of Canadians were killed by German raids at Dieppe.”
Masterful historical analysis!
Moggy
By: Arabella-Cox - 24th October 2002 at 12:30
RE: Aren’t the media wonderful?
Glaringly obvious as a fake. The Germans used kilograms. 😉
By: munnst - 23rd October 2002 at 18:07
RE: Aren’t the media wonderful?
“Went into the garden and shot a 20lb gateaux”
Translation of paragraph from the Hitler Diaries.
Shortly after this they declared the Hitler diaries were false!
By: Snapper - 23rd October 2002 at 16:18
RE: Aren’t the media wonderful?
Alternative?
By: kev35 - 23rd October 2002 at 16:01
RE: Aren’t the media wonderful?
The tragedy of all this is that if Snapper’s excellent alternative history was presented to school students today the majority would take it as gospel.
Regards,
kev35
By: Moggy C - 23rd October 2002 at 12:21
RE: Aren’t the media wonderful?
Maybe we are missing something important here!
Perhaps the BBC chappies have access to secret files that we aren’t privvy to.
Do you think that the REAL first 1,000 bomber raid launched by ‘Bomber’ Harris suffered a small navigational hiccup and took out Cantebury rather than Cologne? Well they both have big cathedrals when all is said and done and with the sophistication of Bomber Command nav at that period of the war it is an understandable mistake.
Obviously it would have been all hushed up at the time for morale reasons, but any Canadian troops billetted near there might have been excused for legging it across the channel and hiding in Dieppe.
The Luftwaffe would therefore have been called to raid Dieppe in order to help dislodge them.
I wonder what other untold stories are yet to be revealed?
Moggy
By: Snapper - 23rd October 2002 at 11:25
RE: Aren’t the media wonderful?
It was the first time that Rommel had been beaten since the Eagle Squadron shot down the Luftwaffe over the white cliffs of Dover, (while Patton’s tanks were surrounding the Japs at Pearl Harbor). Shortly after this Eisenhower surrounded Hitler at Stalingrad and dropped 2 A Bomb’s on Normandy – making the Japs surrender to the 82nd Airborne division near Arnhem. Meanwhile, England had a cup of tea, and waited with bated breath to hear what the American marines had deciphered with the enigma machine they had captured at Tobruk from the Viet Cong. It was a great victory for Washington, and all the world was pleased that America was in charge again, having fought long and hard since September 3rd 1939 (and before that if you include the CIA efforts).
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October 23, 2002 at 9:25 am