Elvis
Chief Master Sergeant
On this date, 85 years ago, Germany invades Poland and The War begins in ernest...
View: https://youtu.be/zKSOLR-LUe0?si=vGleDUOndUWHYsR5
View: https://youtu.be/zKSOLR-LUe0?si=vGleDUOndUWHYsR5
...and so, it begins...
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Thumpalumpacus
Major
I loved that series as a boy. AFRTS showed it in its entirety when I lived in Iran, and I watched religiously. I binge-watched it again about five years ago. It holds up.
Now I need to go dig up Victory at Sea.
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Elvis
Chief Master Sergeant
I had a friend in HS who lived in Iran from the time he was about 10 until he moved here at about 15 y.o..
I remember him telling me he lived about 1/2 block from the end of town and his school was about a 1/2 mile away. On top of one of the buildings were a couple of guys manning a machine gun. Every day he walked to school, they had that machine gun trained on him until he got to the school. He was 10 years old.
Last I heard, he'd joined the Army. He should be about due to retire from that any time now, if he hasn't already.
Hope he's doin' ok.
Thumpalumpacus
Major
We didn't have anything like that until the revolution kicked off in 1978. Then, you started seeing armored cars and foot patrols, especially as curfew approached.
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Elvis
Chief Master Sergeant
Yeah, that time line sounds about right.
Thumpalumpacus
Major
If he was there at that time, I'd be willing to bet he lived in the Lavizan neighborhood in northeast Teheran, and attended Teheran American school. My sis went there, while I attended Community School at the south end of the city.
Great series I watched when younger. Be interesting to see what YouTube creators create with this being the 85th anniversary.
GreenKnight121
Senior Airman
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- Mar 16, 2014
And on 17 September 1939 the USSR invaded Poland from the east, in accordance to the Germany-USSR agreement to divide Poland between them.
Something heavily minimized in, or completely left out of, most mainstream histories here in the US.
That inconvenient fact of the USSR being a willing (if uneasy) ally of Germany for the 21 months of the war is not often discussed.
N4521U
Colonel
Oh sh!t, I thought someone got married!!!!!!!
SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
There are parallels.
