You know what theater doesn't get enough recognition?
North Africa.
Massive tank battles, sneaky special ops, no war crimes. If I had to go back in time to fight somewhere in WW2 I would go there.
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Liam Garcia
Brandon Russell
>Sand
>Hot during the day
>Sand
>Cold at night
No thanks OP
Gavin Reed
Anakin, is that you?
Oliver Foster
It was a pure soldier-vs-soldier battle-sphere. Little/no civilians, little/no ideologies. Just fun in the sun.
Lucas Bell
Connor Harris
Ah have a (you) for such a good kek sir.
Caleb Howard
That picture is from the Algerian War of 1954-1962, you goof.
Sebastian Brooks
>Buries you in sand with my tank treads
Nicholas Roberts
Picture is from 1941, battle at Bir Hacheim
Jacob Wright
42* sorry.
Lucas Hall
Wasn't nicknamed the "Gentleman's War" without reason.
Ryder Jenkins
Jackson Martin
Liam Scott
Samuel Hill
Andrew Ward
Sebastian Rogers
William Ramirez
Michael Kelly
Nicholas Hughes
Christian Sullivan
Brody Cooper
Dylan Torres
Jordan Ward
Connor Bailey
Jaxon Watson
Nathaniel Gutierrez
Lucas Hall
Juan Perry
Brayden Williams
To be completely honest, the CBI (China-Burma-India) Theater gets even less recognition. Hardly any literature has been written about it, much less historical books.
Mason Rodriguez
Nolan Long
Chase Perez
Africa actually do get the recognition it deserves.
>no war crimes
no. Less than other areas, but certainly not zero war crimes.
Interesting theater of war anyway though. Italian frogmen were badass.
Caleb Diaz
Closest thing really is Bridge of the River Kawi and Empire of the Sun (Spielberg's father actually served there and is still in good health)
Ethan Moore
No more war crimes than a regular civilized war.
Considering WW2 featured Japs cooking and eating downed airmen, the wholesale slaughter of POWs, and actual genocide, the North Africa war crimes are nothing.
Jacob Howard
Ethan Rivera
Adam Reed
B A S E D LRDG/SAS poster
Xavier Garcia
Stephen Ambrose (in his book 'Pegasus Bridge) recounts an interesting tale from the desert war.
In North Africa, Hans von Luck was fighting in the only war he ever enjoyed. He commanded the armed reconaissance battalion on Rommel’s extreme right (southern) flank. He thus enjoyed a certain independence, as did his British opposite number. The two commanding officers agreed to fight a civilised war. Every day at five p.m. the war shut down, the British to brew up their tea, the Germans their coffee. At about quarter past five, von Luck and the British commander would communicate over the radio. “Well,” von Luck might say, “we captured so-and-so today and he’s fine and he sends his love to his mother, tell her not to worry.” Once von Luck learned that the British had received a month’s supply of cigarettes. He offered to trade a captured officer – who happened to be the heir to the Players cigarette fortune – for one million cigarettes. The British countered with an offer of 600,000. Done, said von Luck. But the Players heir was outraged. He said the ransom was insufficient. He insisted he was worth the million and refused to be exchanged.
One evening, an excited corporal reported that he had just stolen a British truck jammed with tinned meat and other delicacies. Von Luck looked at his watch – it was past six p.m. – and told the corporal he would have to take it back, as he had captured it after five p.m. The corporal protested that this was war and anyway the troops were already gathering in the goods from the truck. Von Luck called Rommel, his mentor in military academy. He said he was suspicious of British moves further south and thought he ought to go out on a two-day reconaissance. Could another battalion take his place for that time? Rommel agreed. The new battalion arrived in the morning. That night at five thirty p.m., just as von Luck had anticipated, the British stole two supply trucks.
Xavier Ortiz
>You know what theater doesn't get enough recognition?
>North Africa.
You know what theatre doesn't get ANY RECOGNITION?
The fucking SEA campaign, in WW2. I can think of only one movie about it, and it's Bridge over the River Kwai.
Christopher Price
This is awesome
Liam King
Where can I read more about this
Gavin Fisher
Sometimes war is confusing.
Eli Morgan
The North African theatre in ww2 is when the world learned how yellow bellied and betraying the French really were.
Easton Rodriguez
14th Army, Chindits, Merrills Marauders, Aussies in new guinea. Loads of stuff which gets missed.
Anthony Nelson
Tunisia?
Sebastian Gray
Lol wut? The Afrika Korps were deified by the Brits during and after the War, especially about Rommel. British Generals even defended Rommel conduct and his underlings after the War. The Brits have a tendecy to over praise their enemies so that any British losses could be explained due to the valiant enemy, not their own fuck up. Conversely, if the Brits eventually won as they did, it adds prestige to their victory because they slayed the enemy Hero.