Best Fighter

[Lightning Guy]

Look at how much trouble the Italians had trying to take Greece. They had to be bailed out by German troops there as well.

 

[plan_D]

When they attacked Libya in 1941 they outnumbered the British 'Nile' Army defending Eygpt 6 to 1. They pushed the British back some 80km before the Nile army counter-attacked and took 130,000 prisoner, with a loss of only 500 dead and 1,200 wounded.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

yeah i've heard about that before, it's pretty amazing, either we were to good, or most proberly, they were really bad......................

 

[plan_D]

I've said it countless times, that's probably where you've seen it.

I'd say both, if you've seen the way they went about it, it was a very good idea.
The British swooped right round the Italian frontline which ended in the desert, where the Italians thought it to be impassable. The British marched through the desert, around the Italian frontline and hit them at their rear artillery areas, and encircled the Italian frontline. They probably could have got out of it with their weight in numbers, but they panicked and surrendered.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

sounds like something the french would do....................

 

[plan_D]

What, the surrender? Well if you look at Fall Gelb the incident involving the Maginot Line is a lot like what I just described.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

wouldn't it be interesting to have a war between the french and italains???

 

[plan_D]

They'd both be surrendering to each other all the time.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

we could open a book on who would surrender first, my money's on the french...............

 

[plan_D]

The Italians would surrender, the French would run away.

 

[cheddar cheese]

dont diss the italians diss the french

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

or what, you'll send the french army to obliterate us??

 

[cheddar cheese]

no, ill send the italian army 8) no not army, mafia

 

[plan_D]

I'll 'diss' the Italians all I want.

 

[cheddar cheese]

you do that 8)

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

you realise now you've said that you can't object to him doing so??

 

[plan_D]

He doesn't really have any reason to defend the Italian forces of World War 2 nor does he have anything to back it up.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

i think our geography project's gone to his head..............

 

[cheddar cheese]

im not italian in that though, im a german customs officer with a really setreotypical voice 8)

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

ah, i'm the american government...............