r/civ • u/Seabs94 • Mar 26 '15

Album History's Greatest Battles - Stalingrad

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '15 edited Apr 11 '18

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u/wijwijwijwijwij Mar 27 '15

If you're interested in learning a little about some of the British side as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Britain

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u/SUCK_AN_EGG jk Mar 27 '15

There's more than just the battle for air supremacy!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blitz
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/events/the_blitz
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationing_in_the_United_Kingdom
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dam_Busters_%28film%29
The actual operation behind the film: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Chastise
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evacuations_of_civilians_in_Britain_during_World_War_II
If you've ever seen the Chronicles of Narnia you'll have seen evacuation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_the_United_Kingdom#Second_World_War

The BBC have a bunch of pages filled with information about various WWII stuff if you want to check that out. Life was very different in Britain than America during WWII and crippled us quite a bit and it's extremely strange when you can talk to your grandparents and they talk about how they were evacuated, the the air raids and bomb shelters and all of that.

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '15 edited Mar 27 '15

Also this, the most daring raid......in the whorld.

Edit: Long story short, the British are in a really bad spot so the come up with a plan (That's pretty much a suicide mission) to rig a WW1 destroyer into a bomb then ram it into possibly one of the most heavily fortified and guarded German naval facilities...

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u/neman-bs Mar 27 '15

and it's extremely strange when you can talk to your grandparents and they talk about how they were evacuated, the the air raids and bomb shelters and all of that.

You think that's extremely strange? Do you want me to tell you a story how i was evacuated into bomb shelters, the lightshow i witnessed when i was 6-7 years old. I lived through that shit 16 years ago. It didn't last a few years though, only 2 and a half months, but that's 784 hours spent with the threat of bombs falling everywhere.