Somewhere I've read something like " it was like shooting turkeys, start at the back and move forward". The number of Americans involved in that conflict was huge. I pray we avoid what is, as I see, being thrust at us.
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Actually the Korean war is called the Forgotten War. And as long as there is just 1 person who still studies and knows about a war it is never a "Forgotten" war.
Sgt. York has been discussed several times on G&G. His machine gun and it being destroyed was a biggie from a few years ago. ATF wanted his Maxim machine gun destroyed, but was able to come to terms to donate it to a federally funded museum.
Only a mass psychologized, mis-indoctrinated culture of zombies will forget war. They didn't call WWI the "Great War" for nothing. How can any generation after it forget J.J. Pershing, Eddie Rickenbacker, Sgt. Alvin York, the Battle of Belleau Wood and the technologies borne from it? These are all in the annals of military history and tactical/strategic studies in West Point and other military academies.
It's sad that it never has yet a memorial. WWI had as much American heroism recorded as WWII. But with the current regime, I doubt if it will ever happen soon.
Sgt. York has been discussed several times on G&G. His machine gun and it being destroyed was a biggie from a few years ago. ATF wanted his Maxim machine gun destroyed, but was able to come to terms to donate it to a federally funded museum.
Did he use a Maxim or a rifle? Any firearm he used was owned by the government at the time and I believe he was charging a machine gun "nest" with a rifle. I'm confused by your post.
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This M1908/15 Maxim light machine gun is documented as one of the German weapons confiscated on that day.
It was one of the guns he was fighting against, and he took home with him. After sitting in the attic for so many years its a bit more rusted etc....this is what the fight was over.
Well outside of Sgt. York's exploits, i kinda like the air war during WWI. But I specially like reading the Battle of Belleau Wood where the USMC got to be known and feared as "Devil Dogs". Big casualty for the marines but they fought with extraordinary heroism and ferocity over the merciless terrain all the way til it got to hand-to-hand combat. Stopped the German advance with great loss to the enemy.
Can't see how such American heroism can be missed - and that's just one of 'em. Really sad.
Somewhere I've read something like " it was like shooting turkeys, start at the back and move forward". The number of Americans involved in that conflict was huge. I pray we avoid what is, as I see, being thrust at us.
Actually, geese. A quote from the movie starring Gary Cooper.
I think about this war often, but then I'm a military gun nut. Just last night I was appraising a pristine P-17 with a 5-18 barrel date. I also had a grandfather in WW1, but honestly his exploits during prohibition were much more interesting!
It was also called the "War to end all Wars", because of the new technology that was killing so many in such a short time. The losses numbered in the tens of millions, and to this day they haven't accounted for all their losses. We were the newcomers, and helped turn the tide against the German army. But as far as the USA forgetting that war, I say the BBC doesn't have a clue. It is STILL taught to young Marines, that this was where their Esprit de Corps originated, that THIS was where they showed the world that the USMC was a force to be reckoned with. My son toured the battlefields of WW1, as a Marine, and he said it really touched him to walk in the foorsteps of heroes.
I think about this war often, but then I'm a military gun nut. Just last night I was appraising a pristine P-17 with a 5-18 barrel date. I also had a grandfather in WW1, but honestly his exploits during prohibition were much more interesting!
I wish I had known when my grandfather was still alive what he had been through in WWI and right afterwards. Being one of the first none Russians to fight the Bolsheviks as well as fight on 2 different fronts. I'd have a lot to ask him.
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