JBG wrote:Bamaga man wrote:Put it this way if I had to choose who I'd rather be stuck in the trenches with out of an American and a Frenchman you can bet your bottom dollar I'd go with the Yank. Way before the French surrended Paris to the Nazis during WW2 and the Yanks where offically involved in the war, they were suppliing the British with warships on a continuous production line.
In fairness, the French have always got bad press. The French didn't meekly surrender in 1940: they had no choice but to, as they were solidly defeated militarily in the field, just as their British allies were in the same summer, Dunkirk was a catastropic military disaster.
And as for Frenchmen in trenches, they died in their hundreds of thousands in the Great War.
Very true.
A disaster which could have been avoided had Belgium kept their end of the deal.
But Noooo! They had to stick the white flag up to Adolf and let the Jerries march straight through, thereby negating the effect of the Maginot line. (They simply went in behind it.)
Had the Belgian King said "No - f*ck you" like he said he would, then Dunkirk would never have happened.
We can't trust anyone in Europe when the chips are down, no matter WHAT the Politicians say.
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