Most bizarre/stupid statement about WWII that you have heard.

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Originally Posted by Salinator

When we all know that a Tiger simply cannot be defeated at all unless it was abandoned by the crew when it ran out of gas. Sherman crews then fought a grudge match amongst themselves to determine the inheritance of said undefeated Tiger crewed by supermen who had no fuel.

My sig on another forum quotes a Panzertruppen: "We could knock out five of your Shermans with one Tiger. But you always had six."

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I think the stories about British divers putting limpet mines on the BBs at Pearl Harbor wins for me. Seems that the Japanese didn't have a good enough sense of balance to fly, owning to be carried around on their mothers' backs when they were babies. So the British had to do an assist to make sure there was "enough" damage to the US to get us into the war.

I've often wondered if the 7th Cav. would have agreed that papoose-style child rearing meant that the kid wouldn't have a sense of balance good enough to fly, or ride a horse for that matter.

[MrMoonlight]

1.) Andy Rooney's tirade about General Patton; to the effect that we won the war despite generals like Patton. No RIP for you, Andy.

2.)My grad student discussion group leader in college who praised the Finns for fighting off the German Army in WWII. She was trying to make an argument against the Mujahedin's war against the Red Army (it was 1986).

3.) The tour leader on the USS Destroyer Edson (next to CV Intrepid in NYC) who told us that Guadalcanal was an island in the Philippines. She also took about two minutes to discuss the deck guns, and twenty to explain the meal schedule on the ship.