Yep, just an average day over here. Except now we have a legitimate excuse for all that.Mikey wrote:On the subject of Ireland: today is St. Patrick's Day, which in America is far from a typical saint's day on the Catholic calendar. Rather, over here it is a day of debauchery, parades, bar-hopping, public drunkenness, and completely wanton behavior - or, as the Irish call it... Monday.
Oh, I can assure you that it is.I assume that it is certainly NOT celebrated the same way in St. Patrick's adopted country,
Happy Paddy's day to you, too!but either way I will raise a glass of uisca beatha to my Irish friends!
Indeed, the two were inseperable linked not just politically but tactically and operationally. Without the development of air power, tanks, infiltration tactics, artillery coordination and amphibious assault tactics in the First World War, the major operations of the Second World War would have been impossible.Tsukiyumi wrote:Really, though, we should view WWII as WW1.5; the second war was really just a continuation of the first after a long pause. WWI was the main reason WWII happened, so it is equally important, and should be remembered and recognized for its significance.
Not just how not to do it, but how to do it. Second Alamein, for example, was a classic 1918-style set-piece breakthrough offensiveRochey wrote:Indeed. Without the lessons learned at Gallipoli, Normandy would likely have been a bloodbath.
Hitler and Mussolini were both Corporals, Goering commanded Richthofen's "Flying Circus" in 1918, Churchill started the war as First Lord of the Admiralty, got kicked out after Gallipoli, and spent about six months commanding an infantry battalion on the Western Front.It's also interesting to note that many of the leaders in the second World War fought in the First World War. Hitler was a colonel in the army, Mussolini also fought in the Italian army, Truman commanded an artillery battery, Churchill had something to do with high command (IIRC, he was responsible for Gallipoli), and plenty of others.
