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Thread ID: 147640	2019-02-15 17:28:00	Any NZ "Vets" From VietNam Here?	SurferJoe46 (51)	PC World Chat

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1458330	2019-02-20 08:13:00	They did fold under pressure in 1940 Joe, but then they had suffered hugely 21 years earlier in The Great War 1914-1918. Their courage was unquestionably great in that time. The British army got the crap kicked out of it and also ran for the coast for the Dunkirk saga. I think that the USA people are a bit precious about bravery, and I wonder how they would fare had they had been facing the Germans under the same circumstances. I have also heard on the media where an American commenting on wars stated that World War 2 started on 7 December 1941. Technically almost correct (11th December when Hitler declared war on the USA was the first time all the Allies and Axis fought) The British and allies including all the UK Colonies had been at war for nearly 2.5 years by then.French casualties in WWI. World War I cost France 1,357,800 dead, 4,266,000 wounded (of whom 1.5 million were permanently maimed) and 537,000 made prisoner or missing — exactly 73% of the 8,410,000 men mobilized, according to William Shirer in The Collapse of the Third Republic.Sep 22, 2003War Losses (USA) American losses in World War I were modest compared to those of other belligerents, with 116,516 deaths and approximately 320,000 sick and wounded of the 4.7 million men who served. The USA lost more personnel to disease (63,114) than to combat (53,402), largely due to the influenza epidemic of 1918.Oct 8, 2014KenPretty sure the ussr had more casualties then the rest of the allied forces combined. Although if you ask most Americans they would probably think their fought against the ussr in ww2	plod (107)
1458331	2019-02-20 18:07:00	They did plod, in WW1, they had 1.7m deaths, missing/prisoner 2.5m, wounded, nearly 5m wounded. The greatest toll of the war. Interesting about NZ. We had the greatest loss proportionally. During the war, New Zealand had a young population of just over 1 million people. Of those, 100,000 saw active service overseas with 18,500 dying and 41,000 being wounded. So almost 10 percent of New Zealand's total population fought in the war, and 60 percent of those Kiwi soldiers became casualties (killed or wounded). Ken	kenj (9738)
1458332	2019-02-20 20:38:00	I've always thought the French had rear view mirrors in their tanks so they could watch the enemy. It was either surrender , or keep fighting till the end & have Paris destroyed & then loose anyway and leave the country in a smoldering wreck . The Germans were within spitting distance of Paris, it was about to get ugly . They kept fighting long enough to give the Brits enough time to escape .	1101 (13337)
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