Sonderkommando "ELBE" (1 Viewer)

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Love that series, and it sucks that it's not on anymore. I watched a part on the Sonderkommando Elbe in the Dogfights episode, Kamikaze downloaded from iTunes.
 
Love that series, and it sucks that it's not on anymore. I watched a part on the Sonderkommando Elbe in the Dogfights episode, Kamikaze downloaded from iTunes.

yep...own it and love it! watched it like 10 times over! By the way good job saving this thread to all of you! real easy to let the emotions get the best of you!
 
simple reply Sieg how serious do you want the thread to be ? TOCH and LEMB for two classic acts for LW discussion boards would not allow any of this stuff to be so OT it would be cast out immediately there is simply no purpose whats so ever however poster deems relevant in their own minds to start OT into politics we have some pretty stringent regulations here about his and have banned enough members already............. I'm probably talking to the wind but it is Saturday and I am tired of decorating for Christmas.

maybe if we would further our education on some of these late war missions it would not go off-beat so easily
 
a lot of this had to do with "acceptable losses" and acts of "sheer desperation". this is where east vs west philosophies and winner vs loser all come into effect. the usaaf ceased daylight bombing after the LW shellacked them...inflicting "unacceptable losses". they would not put their troops into harms way with out some decent precentage of survival. that occured after bombers were able to be escorted deep into germany..and all that. i see no difference between acts of ramming ac (when you are already suffering from a lack of pilots)...or the soviets throwing throngs of troops into an area..sometimes even without a weapon. these are acts of "sheer desperation" and generally yield very little results unless you can throw mind boggling numbers at the enemy.. again, the soviets were successful with this...but in doing anything and everything to slow the advance of the german army, the average "Ivan" was fed into the meat grinders by the tens ( actually more like hundreds ) of thousands at a break neck pace. for the most part the troops western allies would have revolted...not surrendered... but surely not put up with it either. germany concocted other acts....arming old men and children and ordered to fight to the last bullet. i have no doubts that had the allies been forced to invade the japanese mainland...we would have seen simular or even more horrific acts been asked of a populace from that part of the world as well. at what point do you say "enough it enough" to your leaders who blow all the smoke...and is it bravery or foolishness? what a position to put your people into....
 

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