D Day

[Von Smallhausen]

Agreed a soldier is a soldier, but if it wasn't for Germany's unprovoked attack on Poland this war wouldn't have started and many lives of the Allied forces would not have been lost on this day.

" You were given the choice between war and dishonour. You chose dishonour and you will have war. "

Winston Churchill after Neville Chamberlain returned from the Munich Pact.

Britain has its fair share of blame to take for appeasing Hitler while Europe was being re-drawn and Czechoslovakia's Sudetanland was carved out in the name of ' Peace in our time. '

o/t though.

RIP.

 

[stukacat]

for our children and our childrens children as my grandad used to say.hats of to all who serve and served.

 

[eddie_slovik]

Britain has its fair share of blame to take for appeasing Hitler while Europe was being re-drawn and Czechoslovakia's Sudetanland was carved out in the name of ' Peace in our time. '

o/t though.

RIP.

We had no choice but to appease as the politicians had run down the British Army to the extent that we did not pose a sufficient military threat to Germanys intentions.

Great shout for a thread.Massive military effort that could not fail because if it did then the post war map of europe would have been very different.

 

[NickK]

My parents have been doing the family tree. There's a large military history in there. It's a shame a don't have the chance to say thank you.

 

[fozzy]

A visit to the Imperial War Museum is well worth it.

RIP our grandfathers.

I wonder what they would think today of the country that they defended and gave their lives for?

RIP.

Probably wondering why they had bothered.

 

[gillywibble]

Never forgotten.

RIP.

 

[Hitman_Leon]

My nana's boyfriend at the time bought it as he left the landing craft his best mate wrote back to my nana and told her the bad news while explaining he probably never felt a thing.