10/5    Although each D-Day landing craft had a 2 men assigned as
        flamethrowers, most of them did not carry flamethrowers out of
        fear that they'd explode. I love the History Channel
                                                -not getting laid guy #3
        \_ Hey get your own nickname! - the original not getting laid guy.
           \_ Sorry I changed my login to not getting laid #3. Maybe
              we should start a loser club or something?
           \_ Hold on how un-laid are you?  I'm watching the history
              channel two. some SF freaks are talking about German
              jet engines.  awesome.  - original not getting laid guy.
              \_ hi I'm #3, I love the Weird Weapons of the Axis/Allies.
                 Jet engines are cool too. Go ME262, they kick ass!
                 Well actually they kind of sucked compared to the P-51
                 Mustangs, since ME262 had bad maneuverability, etc etc.
                 But hey, the idea's cool.
                 \_ And they run out of fuel after a few minutes and have to
                    glide back to base where upon American fighters just
                    pull in behind and shoot them down easily.  And they
                    required a difficult to produce and incredible toxic
                    fuel.  ME262 was cool.  For the Allies.  Hitler should
                    have let his generals run the war.  Fortunately, he was
                    insane and militarily untalented so the Allies were able
                    to win.
                    \_ Hitler was a micromanager. I hate micromanagers.
                    \_ The Allies would have beaten even the greatest military
                       genius in the world, because of economic might and
                       sheer numbers. Only a great politician could have
                       saved the Axis and Hitler, though a great German
                       leader, did not have enough international relations
                       skills to pull it off.
                       \_ If only he had kept the Jew scientists...
                       \_ Can't recall his name right now but the admiral in
                          charge of the german submarines wanted to wait until
                          they had 700+ before launching a war instead of the
                          100? or so they had.  Imagine how the war for the
                          atlantic would have gone with 700 subs or even 350
                          german subs roaming around?  We could not have
                          reinforced Britain, there likely would not have
                          been a dday, etc.  On the Russian front, he didn't
                          allow his generals to pull back to defensible
                          positions after they took ground so the Russian
                          counter attacks hurt a lot more than they should
                          have.  He didn't believe in strategic bombing.  He
                          didn't let his army reinforce the beaches at
                          Normandy until too late.  Need I go on?
                          \_ I am not saying Hitler didn't make mistakes. I
                             am saying that Germany would have lost anyway,
                             because they did not have the military might to
                             defeat Russia and the US. The war could have
                             gone on longer, but Germany would have lost
                             no matter who was advising them militarily.
                             However, with a better politician perhaps France
                             would still be speaking German.
        \_ My wife and I had sex again tonight. -happily married guy
           \_ Married a fatty, huh?
              \_ I'm guessing the pp didn't marry Asian, or is fresh
                 \_ No she is thin and asian. But we have only been dating
                    for seven years, so maybe you are right, things will
                    slow down after a while.
                    \_ Busty?
                       \_ Sorry, no.