What If?......

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From the Marianas, B-29's dropped a total of 170,000 tons of bombs incediaries on Japanese cities before the A-bombs, wiping-out a lot of acreage lives, not unlike what Germany got...it really was a War of Attrition. The A-bomb changed forever, the scale of damage that CAN be inflicted...60 years on, the lesson Man's learned has kept that in perspective...so far...IMO, the generation of 60 years ago were tougher...
 
Of course they were, do you think that the average 19 year old today would be able to run up that beach on D-Day? From what I've seen they'd just all start crying, but then again no one knows how you'd react.

Secondly the 'Human Rights' and 'Anti War Protestors' would be asking for the country to give in if it got bombed to that extent. I mean, there were even anti war protests against the Falklands War...WE WERE DEFENDING OUR OWN LAND!
 
Exactly. I don't think people (in general) today are psychologically tough enough to stand up the the devestation of WWII. And most of them probably think it's always been that way.
 
but then again the soldiers were fighting for king and country, i doubt they would be the way they were any other time, and amazingly only 2% of soldiers actually WANTED to shoot anyone, like i say, most only did it because they had to...............
 
plan_D said:
Of course they were, do you think that the average 19 year old today would be able to run up that beach on D-Day? From what I've seen they'd just all start crying, but then again no one knows how you'd react.

Secondly the 'Human Rights' and 'Anti War Protestors' would be asking for the country to give in if it got bombed to that extent. I mean, there were even anti war protests against the Falklands War...WE WERE DEFENDING OUR OWN LAND!
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To say the truth, Plan_D, I think "Anti War Protestors" would protest even if London was dirrectly attacked. (I said "London" because you're English, but it could be any other important city in any other free country.)

Sometimes, I even think those b***ards are willing us to become a "dictatorial" country. I heard about a demonstration in Québec (the city), in 1939. The Nazi Party organized a demonstration to protest about the Canada going at war. They were walking trough the streets of Québec, in brown shirts and saluting Hitler. Those sons of b*tches were saying that it was not "our" war. "It was not our war ?" Sh*t! Our navy sank a German submarine in the Saint-Laurent River, in 1942, only 3 years later ! Don't tell me it was not our war !
 
We had 40,000 fascist black shirts here but they were soon told to shut up in 1939. These days protests would be rampant, it is disgusting that these people don't even respect their home country enough to be willing to defend it.
Falklands is the closest thing in history of a perfect example, Falklands is British land and they protested against us defending it against the Argentinians. It happened in 1982-3 for the people who don't know, I've encountered many Americans who have no knowledge that war ever occured.
 
People today are far too pacifist. I am by no means saying that war is a good thing (my reading on WWII has taught me that it is absolutely horrible, even when justified). Nevertheless, there has to come a time when enough is enough. I'm afraid we may be living in a generation of Neville Chamberlains bringing "Peace in our time." HA!
 
Yes, I feel we are. Although WW2 was the bloodiest war ever, as the great Sun Tzu said "Warfare is the greatest affair of state, the basis of life and death, the Way (Tao) to survival or extinction. It must be thoroughly pondered and analyzed"
 
i dont think id be willing to be a soldier or anything, id be part of the "brains" back home, designing planes or something 8)
 
Exactly Maestro...

C.C I'm sure you do want to be a car designer. But there's now a bit more to Aircraft and tanks than weapons, wings and an engine. Well there was more in World War 2 but there's even more now.
 
You'd be no good now then. Just get on the damn boat and ship out to war... :lol:
 
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Get on it..let's go!!! :lol: :lol:
 
that pic doesn't work..............

nice siggy..............

why dount you like jet planes C.C..............

and i would be in the RAF as part of the ground crew...............
 
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