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On Sunday, August 11, 2019 at 12:40:44 PM UTC-7, John B. wrote:
On Sun, 11 Aug 2019 10:40:20 -0700 (PDT), Tom Kunich wrote: On Saturday, August 10, 2019 at 3:43:00 PM UTC-7, John B. wrote: On Sat, 10 Aug 2019 12:34:37 -0700 (PDT), Tom Kunich wrote: On Friday, August 9, 2019 at 11:44:47 PM UTC-7, news18 wrote: I'm wondering if that was ever true? From what I've read on modern US gun distribution, while the averages might indicate that, the major problem is the large "collections' of guns with out the same number of fingers to pull triggers WW II should have ended any such doubts. There were nearly 2 million Americans involved in the D-Day landings. That was larger than the entire Japanese Army for one single action. It seems that Truth really is stranger than Fiction: https://www.historyonthenet.com/d-day-statistics The British and Canadians put 75,215 troops ashore, and the Americans 57,500, for a total of 132,715. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperi...t-World_War_II In 1945 the Imperial Japanese Army was comprised of 5 million active duty troops in 145 divisions (includes three Imperial Guard). But on second thoughts, if we assume that the Truth is that Tom simply doesn't know what he is talking about than Truth becomes the common, ordinary, facts, while Tom becomes the fiction. Remember in the "old days"? We had "funny Books" picture stories extolling heroes like Superman, Batman, Flash Gordon, and all those "super Heroes"? Sorry to say, we no longer have the "Funny Books" for kids to collect and trade, no more fantasy, no more super heroes. In this modern age the only "fantasy" we have left is Tom. -- cheers, John B. I'd like to know why you purposely ignored the paragraph slightly below that: No I didn't ignore anything. I was replying specifically to your statement that: " There were nearly 2 million Americans involved in the D-Day landings". Note the word "landings". Now if you want to include all of the support effort for the "D-day landings" I suppose that you would need to include all of the support, the U.S. manufacturing of the floating landing jetties, the building of all of the landing craft that hauled the troops and undoubted all the naval forces involved. Except, of course, that they didn't all "land". So I just accepted that when you said "landing" that you meant "landing" and of course you probably did.... right up until I pointed out that you simply, as is so common, didn't know what you were talking about. entire Japanese Army for one single action. "American personnel in Britain included 1,931,885 land, 659,554 air, and 285,000 naval—a total of 2,876,439 officers and men. While in Britain they were housed in 1,108 bases and camps." Oh wait, it is your belief that the 1.7 million members of the Japanese military were ALL soldiers without any support personnel at all. John, I am never surprised in the least to what lengths you will go to, to pretend to be correct. Re the Japanese Army? Support military? Err, Tom, all army figures include what you probably mean by "support personnel" like the cooks and bakers, the truck drivers that haul the food and ammunition, the mechanics that fix the trucks, the generals that plan the operations, they are all wearing a uniform and that are all "in the army".. Good Lord, you ought to know that as you were "support" since as you have so often said you were some sort of electronics fixer. The generally accepted figures for actual shoot 'em up, bang, bang, combat troops versus total military is in the 1 out of 9 -- 1 out of 12 figures with the larger numbers in the more technical part of the military. The generally accept figures for current (21 century) U.S. operations is 1 out of 10. Tom, I recently read a statement about modern hand phones as "having the world's knowledge at your finger tips". I can only assume that you don't own a hand phone as you are so often - approaching 100% of the time - wrong. -- cheers, John B. John, you said you were in the Air Force. Apparently you do not consider the Air Force as being part of the landings simply because they provided air cover and allowed the massive numbers of para-troopers to land. ALL of that over 2 million personnel WERE NECESSARY for that landing. That you are even arguing that makes you look like an ass. Without THOSE SUPPORT there would have been no landings at all. |
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On Sunday, August 11, 2019 at 4:13:36 PM UTC-4, John B. wrote:
On Sun, 11 Aug 2019 10:50:46 -0700 (PDT), Tom Kunich wrote: On Saturday, August 10, 2019 at 3:43:00 PM UTC-7, John B. wrote: On Sat, 10 Aug 2019 12:34:37 -0700 (PDT), Tom Kunich wrote: On Friday, August 9, 2019 at 11:44:47 PM UTC-7, news18 wrote: I'm wondering if that was ever true? From what I've read on modern US gun distribution, while the averages might indicate that, the major problem is the large "collections' of guns with out the same number of fingers to pull triggers WW II should have ended any such doubts. There were nearly 2 million Americans involved in the D-Day landings. That was larger than the entire Japanese Army for one single action. It seems that Truth really is stranger than Fiction: https://www.historyonthenet.com/d-day-statistics The British and Canadians put 75,215 troops ashore, and the Americans 57,500, for a total of 132,715. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperi...t-World_War_II In 1945 the Imperial Japanese Army was comprised of 5 million active duty troops in 145 divisions (includes three Imperial Guard). But on second thoughts, if we assume that the Truth is that Tom simply doesn't know what he is talking about than Truth becomes the common, ordinary, facts, while Tom becomes the fiction. Remember in the "old days"? We had "funny Books" picture stories extolling heroes like Superman, Batman, Flash Gordon, and all those "super Heroes"? Sorry to say, we no longer have the "Funny Books" for kids to collect and trade, no more fantasy, no more super heroes. In this modern age the only "fantasy" we have left is Tom. Also, in case you missed it - the entire Japanese military in 1944 WHEN THEY ATTACKED PEARL HARBOR was 1.7 million men. The possible invasion of America was what we were talking about - or have you forgotten that so soon? But Tom, the stated intent of the Japanese attack against Pearl Harbor wasn't to invade the U.S. it was, and was so stated to be, an attempt to destroy the U.S. Pacific Fleet. By the way, your figures of 1.7 million men and the possibly invasion of the U.S. is delusional at best as while the Imperial Japanese Army strength in 1941 was 1.7 million, in some 51 divisions, 40 divisions of of these troops were stationed in China. So for your imaginary invasion of the U.S. some 11 divisions, about 20% of the army was available. That in 1945 after almost continuous defeat and the looming threat of American invasion they drafted almost every able bodied Japanese. Most of them did even know how to hold a rifle let alone shoot one. Virtually none of them were good for any extraneous jobs such as maintenance of the Navy or Air Force. The Zero's were falling to pieces even against the Flying Tigers and there was nothing they could present against the P-51. Hell, I believe that until half-way through the Korean War that the F-51 had a much higher kill ratio against Migs. I think I'd have to ask for a little backup for that statement as to my personal knowledge there were no F-51 units assigned to actual air combat and the units stationed in Korea were assigned to ground support missions and nothing I've read to date indicates that the F-51 was particularly effective against the Chinese MIG-15's. Again, you do not surprise me. -- cheers, John B. Methinks that perhaps Tom is confusing the F-51 with the F-86 Sabre jet fighter. The F-51 even had trouble with the Yak-9 which could out-climb and out-turn the F-51. As far as dealing with Mig-15s goes, the F-51 had very little chance against a Mig-15. From https://warisboring.com/the-p-51-mus...-war-comeback/ "The speedy Soviet jet’s 23-millimeter and 37-millimeter cannons out-ranged the Mustang’s own machine guns and could critically maim most aircraft with a single explosive hit. Over-matched in almost every way, the only way for a Mustang pilot to survive was to turn into the oncoming MiG and fly straight under its flight path and escape." Cheers |
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On Sunday, August 11, 2019 at 10:10:17 PM UTC+1, Tom Kunich wrote:
On Sunday, August 11, 2019 at 12:40:44 PM UTC-7, John B. wrote: On Sun, 11 Aug 2019 10:40:20 -0700 (PDT), Tom Kunich wrote: On Saturday, August 10, 2019 at 3:43:00 PM UTC-7, John B. wrote: On Sat, 10 Aug 2019 12:34:37 -0700 (PDT), Tom Kunich wrote: On Friday, August 9, 2019 at 11:44:47 PM UTC-7, news18 wrote: I'm wondering if that was ever true? From what I've read on modern US gun distribution, while the averages might indicate that, the major problem is the large "collections' of guns with out the same number of fingers to pull triggers WW II should have ended any such doubts. There were nearly 2 million Americans involved in the D-Day landings. That was larger than the entire Japanese Army for one single action. It seems that Truth really is stranger than Fiction: https://www.historyonthenet.com/d-day-statistics The British and Canadians put 75,215 troops ashore, and the Americans 57,500, for a total of 132,715. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperi...t-World_War_II In 1945 the Imperial Japanese Army was comprised of 5 million active duty troops in 145 divisions (includes three Imperial Guard). But on second thoughts, if we assume that the Truth is that Tom simply doesn't know what he is talking about than Truth becomes the common, ordinary, facts, while Tom becomes the fiction. Remember in the "old days"? We had "funny Books" picture stories extolling heroes like Superman, Batman, Flash Gordon, and all those "super Heroes"? Sorry to say, we no longer have the "Funny Books" for kids to collect and trade, no more fantasy, no more super heroes. In this modern age the only "fantasy" we have left is Tom. -- cheers, John B. I'd like to know why you purposely ignored the paragraph slightly below that: No I didn't ignore anything. I was replying specifically to your statement that: " There were nearly 2 million Americans involved in the D-Day landings". Note the word "landings". Now if you want to include all of the support effort for the "D-day landings" I suppose that you would need to include all of the support, the U.S. manufacturing of the floating landing jetties, the building of all of the landing craft that hauled the troops and undoubted all the naval forces involved. Except, of course, that they didn't all "land". So I just accepted that when you said "landing" that you meant "landing" and of course you probably did.... right up until I pointed out that you simply, as is so common, didn't know what you were talking about. entire Japanese Army for one single action. "American personnel in Britain included 1,931,885 land, 659,554 air, and 285,000 naval—a total of 2,876,439 officers and men. While in Britain they were housed in 1,108 bases and camps." Oh wait, it is your belief that the 1.7 million members of the Japanese military were ALL soldiers without any support personnel at all. John, I am never surprised in the least to what lengths you will go to, to pretend to be correct. Re the Japanese Army? Support military? Err, Tom, all army figures include what you probably mean by "support personnel" like the cooks and bakers, the truck drivers that haul the food and ammunition, the mechanics that fix the trucks, the generals that plan the operations, they are all wearing a uniform and that are all "in the army".. Good Lord, you ought to know that as you were "support" since as you have so often said you were some sort of electronics fixer. The generally accepted figures for actual shoot 'em up, bang, bang, combat troops versus total military is in the 1 out of 9 -- 1 out of 12 figures with the larger numbers in the more technical part of the military. The generally accept figures for current (21 century) U.S. operations is 1 out of 10. Tom, I recently read a statement about modern hand phones as "having the world's knowledge at your finger tips". I can only assume that you don't own a hand phone as you are so often - approaching 100% of the time - wrong. -- cheers, John B. John, you said you were in the Air Force. Apparently you do not consider the Air Force as being part of the landings simply because they provided air cover and allowed the massive numbers of para-troopers to land. ALL of that over 2 million personnel WERE NECESSARY for that landing. That you are even arguing that makes you look like an ass. Without THOSE SUPPORT there would have been no landings at all. The huge numbers and the short time are important too. The Germans were already at full stretch*, fighting a war on two fronts. Imagine their shock when the Americans from a standing start in their first year landed well over 2m soldiers, complete with equipment and supplies, in Britain. The Germans still used millions of horses/mules to move their cannon and supplies; the Americans were fully mobilised, and putting a transport (Liberty) ship in the water ten days after they started building it and they were building them by the hundreds, on a production line as if they were cars. Maybe a jumped-up corporal like Hitler didn't grasp the importance of these logistical facts, but you can bet they frightened the German War Office ****less. Andre Jute The biggest industrial base will win the war, every time * Oddly enough, Hitler feared the populace to the extent of not putting the home front on full war footing until very late in the game. America, despite various central planning war boards -- the highlight of the lives of people like John Kenneth Galbraith, never actually even approached full a full war footing, partly because it wasn't necessary and partly because all other wars had been followed by a slump, and this time the government wanted to be prepared without any conversion period. |
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On Sun, 11 Aug 2019 14:10:15 -0700 (PDT), Tom Kunich
wrote: On Sunday, August 11, 2019 at 12:40:44 PM UTC-7, John B. wrote: On Sun, 11 Aug 2019 10:40:20 -0700 (PDT), Tom Kunich wrote: On Saturday, August 10, 2019 at 3:43:00 PM UTC-7, John B. wrote: On Sat, 10 Aug 2019 12:34:37 -0700 (PDT), Tom Kunich wrote: On Friday, August 9, 2019 at 11:44:47 PM UTC-7, news18 wrote: I'm wondering if that was ever true? From what I've read on modern US gun distribution, while the averages might indicate that, the major problem is the large "collections' of guns with out the same number of fingers to pull triggers WW II should have ended any such doubts. There were nearly 2 million Americans involved in the D-Day landings. That was larger than the entire Japanese Army for one single action. It seems that Truth really is stranger than Fiction: https://www.historyonthenet.com/d-day-statistics The British and Canadians put 75,215 troops ashore, and the Americans 57,500, for a total of 132,715. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperi...t-World_War_II In 1945 the Imperial Japanese Army was comprised of 5 million active duty troops in 145 divisions (includes three Imperial Guard). But on second thoughts, if we assume that the Truth is that Tom simply doesn't know what he is talking about than Truth becomes the common, ordinary, facts, while Tom becomes the fiction. Remember in the "old days"? We had "funny Books" picture stories extolling heroes like Superman, Batman, Flash Gordon, and all those "super Heroes"? Sorry to say, we no longer have the "Funny Books" for kids to collect and trade, no more fantasy, no more super heroes. In this modern age the only "fantasy" we have left is Tom. -- cheers, John B. I'd like to know why you purposely ignored the paragraph slightly below that: No I didn't ignore anything. I was replying specifically to your statement that: " There were nearly 2 million Americans involved in the D-Day landings". Note the word "landings". Now if you want to include all of the support effort for the "D-day landings" I suppose that you would need to include all of the support, the U.S. manufacturing of the floating landing jetties, the building of all of the landing craft that hauled the troops and undoubted all the naval forces involved. Except, of course, that they didn't all "land". So I just accepted that when you said "landing" that you meant "landing" and of course you probably did.... right up until I pointed out that you simply, as is so common, didn't know what you were talking about. entire Japanese Army for one single action. "American personnel in Britain included 1,931,885 land, 659,554 air, and 285,000 naval—a total of 2,876,439 officers and men. While in Britain they were housed in 1,108 bases and camps." Oh wait, it is your belief that the 1.7 million members of the Japanese military were ALL soldiers without any support personnel at all. John, I am never surprised in the least to what lengths you will go to, to pretend to be correct. Re the Japanese Army? Support military? Err, Tom, all army figures include what you probably mean by "support personnel" like the cooks and bakers, the truck drivers that haul the food and ammunition, the mechanics that fix the trucks, the generals that plan the operations, they are all wearing a uniform and that are all "in the army".. Good Lord, you ought to know that as you were "support" since as you have so often said you were some sort of electronics fixer. The generally accepted figures for actual shoot 'em up, bang, bang, combat troops versus total military is in the 1 out of 9 -- 1 out of 12 figures with the larger numbers in the more technical part of the military. The generally accept figures for current (21 century) U.S. operations is 1 out of 10. Tom, I recently read a statement about modern hand phones as "having the world's knowledge at your finger tips". I can only assume that you don't own a hand phone as you are so often - approaching 100% of the time - wrong. -- cheers, John B. John, you said you were in the Air Force. Apparently you do not consider the Air Force as being part of the landings simply because they provided air cover and allowed the massive numbers of para-troopers to land. Tom, you can include all the mother's and wives back in the U.S. with the signs in the front window with the white or gold stars on them. You can include Rosy the Riveter, you can even include the earthworms in the front yards of all the houses in the U.S. keeping the lawns aerated. All as supporters of the Normandy landings. Anything your little heart desires, anything to "prove" your pitiful, lying statements. As for Air Force "landings" Yes, I'm pretty sure that every pilot while roaring down the runway on his takeoff roll is very likely hoping against hope that "this flight" will terminate in a landing. ALL of that over 2 million personnel WERE NECESSARY for that landing. That you are even arguing that makes you look like an ass. Without THOSE SUPPORT there would have been no landings at all. -- cheers, John B. |
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On Sun, 11 Aug 2019 14:12:43 -0700 (PDT), Sir Ridesalot
wrote: On Sunday, August 11, 2019 at 4:13:36 PM UTC-4, John B. wrote: On Sun, 11 Aug 2019 10:50:46 -0700 (PDT), Tom Kunich wrote: On Saturday, August 10, 2019 at 3:43:00 PM UTC-7, John B. wrote: On Sat, 10 Aug 2019 12:34:37 -0700 (PDT), Tom Kunich wrote: On Friday, August 9, 2019 at 11:44:47 PM UTC-7, news18 wrote: I'm wondering if that was ever true? From what I've read on modern US gun distribution, while the averages might indicate that, the major problem is the large "collections' of guns with out the same number of fingers to pull triggers WW II should have ended any such doubts. There were nearly 2 million Americans involved in the D-Day landings. That was larger than the entire Japanese Army for one single action. It seems that Truth really is stranger than Fiction: https://www.historyonthenet.com/d-day-statistics The British and Canadians put 75,215 troops ashore, and the Americans 57,500, for a total of 132,715. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperi...t-World_War_II In 1945 the Imperial Japanese Army was comprised of 5 million active duty troops in 145 divisions (includes three Imperial Guard). But on second thoughts, if we assume that the Truth is that Tom simply doesn't know what he is talking about than Truth becomes the common, ordinary, facts, while Tom becomes the fiction. Remember in the "old days"? We had "funny Books" picture stories extolling heroes like Superman, Batman, Flash Gordon, and all those "super Heroes"? Sorry to say, we no longer have the "Funny Books" for kids to collect and trade, no more fantasy, no more super heroes. In this modern age the only "fantasy" we have left is Tom. Also, in case you missed it - the entire Japanese military in 1944 WHEN THEY ATTACKED PEARL HARBOR was 1.7 million men. The possible invasion of America was what we were talking about - or have you forgotten that so soon? But Tom, the stated intent of the Japanese attack against Pearl Harbor wasn't to invade the U.S. it was, and was so stated to be, an attempt to destroy the U.S. Pacific Fleet. By the way, your figures of 1.7 million men and the possibly invasion of the U.S. is delusional at best as while the Imperial Japanese Army strength in 1941 was 1.7 million, in some 51 divisions, 40 divisions of of these troops were stationed in China. So for your imaginary invasion of the U.S. some 11 divisions, about 20% of the army was available. That in 1945 after almost continuous defeat and the looming threat of American invasion they drafted almost every able bodied Japanese. Most of them did even know how to hold a rifle let alone shoot one. Virtually none of them were good for any extraneous jobs such as maintenance of the Navy or Air Force. The Zero's were falling to pieces even against the Flying Tigers and there was nothing they could present against the P-51. Hell, I believe that until half-way through the Korean War that the F-51 had a much higher kill ratio against Migs. I think I'd have to ask for a little backup for that statement as to my personal knowledge there were no F-51 units assigned to actual air combat and the units stationed in Korea were assigned to ground support missions and nothing I've read to date indicates that the F-51 was particularly effective against the Chinese MIG-15's. Again, you do not surprise me. -- cheers, John B. Methinks that perhaps Tom is confusing the F-51 with the F-86 Sabre jet fighter. The F-51 even had trouble with the Yak-9 which could out-climb and out-turn the F-51. As far as dealing with Mig-15s goes, the F-51 had very little chance against a Mig-15. From https://warisboring.com/the-p-51-mus...-war-comeback/ "The speedy Soviet jet’s 23-millimeter and 37-millimeter cannons out-ranged the Mustang’s own machine guns and could critically maim most aircraft with a single explosive hit. Over-matched in almost every way, the only way for a Mustang pilot to survive was to turn into the oncoming MiG and fly straight under its flight path and escape." Cheers At the beginning of the Korean war the U.S. did mobilize some F-51's to Korea, primarily for ground support. As for the mig-15's their performance and armament was pretty much superior to everything that the USAF had at the beginning of the war. Even the F-86 was not substantially superior to the mig, in aerodynamics. And while the F-86 carried six M-3 .50-caliber machine-guns, the MiG-15 carried two 23mm and one 37mm cannon. In U.S. terms that would be 2 each 0.90" cal cannons and one 1.45" cannon. The mig's speed was higher than the fire control system of the RB-29's, that I worked on, could compute. The F-100 may have been equal or maybe even superior but they came a bit later in the conflict. -- cheers, John B. |
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