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Originally Posted by david ross
Hi Francis.
I think the battle of Britain was the turning point of the war for us in England
owr first victory over the Nazis. Then after that came victory in north africa
and the end of the africa core for the germans the race to Egypt was over.
As Churchill said in 1940 before the USA came in to ww2 although we could have never of won that war with out the USA by our side.
Winnies tridute to the RAF. 
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many by so few
and if the british empire shall last a thousand years people will say this was
there finest hour. As i write these words it brings a lump to my throut.
Sorry to go on abought old winney but he is a hero of mine and i think the
greatest English man ever to live althought his mother was a American.
So if you have a hero fly your flag for them.
All the best Dave . 
P.S. As you fought by our side ww2 as you fight to day in Afghanistan by our
side once more. My God protect all our troops were ever thay are. |
-Rommel depended on shipments of crucial supplies, including parts and ammo for his Afrika Corps- the Germans in their alliance with the Italians thought, with their code intact, they owned the shipping lanes from Italy to the North coast of Africa- once the Allies had the code key, they knew the details of every shipment to Rommel, and many ships went down in the Med Sea with his much needed supply chain broken- It did Rommel little good to capture Tobruck intact- except for food and medicine- as the Brits and the American tanks ran on gasoline, the Panzer Tanks on diesel fuel-- Montgomery was no match for the wily Rommel- Die Wiestul Fuchs-- it took someone like George Patton to defeat Rommel, and that might not have happened without the code breakers "lucky break". I can only wonder how the European theatre might have turned out if Patton had not slapped the coward in the field hospital in Sicily!!