f***in' 'ell Bexter, why did you have to go and do that? I'm eating me bleedin' dinner! I had a mouthful of Pie and mash! The least you could do is offer to come 'round and clean me feckin' monitor! Damn! Bits of pie and stuff everywhere! Sheesh!

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red and blue army

Sherlock, who's inventing history? Regarding WWI, I would say primarily. British and Commonwealth forces spearheaded the defeat of the German army in the field. They took almost as many prisoners and guns as France, the USA and Belgium combined. But the other Allies must have done some serious fighting in 1918. One must also remember that France had also borne the brunt of the fighting until 1916.

Regarding WWII. Your figure of 19 out of 20 German combat soldiers killed by the USSR is a little off. That would mean the Allies killed about 160,000 men, whilst the Soviets killed the other 3,100,000. 5-600,000 would be closer to the mark. Though I would agree that it was the Soviet army that did the majority of the work.

Before America officially entered the war it helped GB, with Radar technicians (little known fact), huge amounts of shipping (which was in short supply) and vast amounts of military eqipment. American warships also took on convoy duties to free British ships for duty elsewhere. In addition, they provided huge amounts of money (most of which we never paid back).

Re America winning the war, I have already posted on this. They provided almost all the logistic lift equipment and transport aircraft the Soviets possessed. Thus allowing them to move their armies, and concentrate their production on tanks and guns. Furthermore, they produced almost as many tanks as GB, Germany and Russia combined! So though I don't believe they won the war single handed, they did make victory possible.

We were not alone for over two years, try 18 months. After all, we do not want to invent history.

Lastly, there was not a big percentage supporting Hitler in the USA. There were a large number of citizens who wanted to stay out of another European War, and why not. However, their president believed in helping the fellow democratic powers and he had the final say.

I agree about NY Penge, I was there last year (god that sounds cool, at least to me), and everyone was REALLY nice. Especially the women (single lads, New York women love the British accent, they ALL think you knoe Hugh Grant!) and people actually stop in the street and help you if you're lost.

Even Brooklyn and the Bronx are okay. But be careful in Queens, they have colour related gang war. No, not that colour related, but one gang wears red, the other wears blue. And there is FEARCE rivalry.

I wore my Palace shirt and no one knew which side I was on. Hehehe!

PS. Allow at least 4hrs before flight time to get to and check in at JFK.

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