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>>The Sun 16/05/09 Clarkson >>The following appeared in the Sun on the 16th... >> >>God bless America. Having demonstrated in the movie >>U-571 that it was their navy and not ours that >>captured a German Enigma coding machine > >Having never watched U-571, which from what I >understand was a crapfest, I can not comment directly >about it. So I have no idea if it claimed that the USN >captured the 1st enigma machine or was the only navy >to capture an enigma machine. A total of 15 naval >enigma machines were captured from U-boats or ships >during World War II by both the Royal Navy and the >USN. I believe I read once that the move included an >text that movie was a work of fiction and that the >British captured the first naval enigma machine. From >what I understand it was the Poles who initial broke >the enigma code. > > > > > >and in Pearl >>Harbor that it was Ben Affleck who saved us from the >>Nazis and in The Great Escape that it was an American >>and no > >I had the poor fortune to set through the Pearl Harbor >and I don't recall seeing anything in the movie that >could be taken by a reasonable person that Ben Affleck >won the war, though the movie gave plenty to indicate >that Affleck is a terrible actor. In the movie he >joined a group that did exist and took part in the >battle of Britain and get shot down and assumed dead. >Hardly seem like a claim that he won the Battle of >Britain. The movie has far more errors related to the >attach on Pearl Harbor and the Doolittle raid. > > > >t a Brit who kept escaping and in Saving Private >>Ryan that it was they who won D-Day on their own > >This complaint is just stupid, Saving Private Ryan >focuses on a single American unit on and in the area >around a single landing zone, searching for a single >American solider in that area. It was a story setting >the Normandy Invasion but centered on one particular >American unit. If you had a movie about a British unit >on Gold or Sword beach would expect their to be any >American characters? > > > > > and >>in A Bridge Too Far we only lost because we were >>drinking tea, > >It has been a long time since I have seen this movie >but I dont recall the loss of operation Market Garden >being blamed on British drinking tea or the British >solider being portrayed in a particularly bad light >in the movie. > > > they are now claiming that the only >>reason we won the Battle of Britian - apart from Ben >>Afflect - was that our planes were using their >>petrol. > >I have never heard anyone make that claim, not to say >that some one might not have but if they did this is >not a wide spread claim in the US. > > > > > > FACT. America lost in Vietnam because we >>wouldnt help them. >> > >British help during the Vietnam war probably would not >have made that much of the difference. The Vietnam war >was a lost because of a number of different reason and >changing any one in particular would probably not have >made much of difference. A big factor was poor >intelligence, The US did not understand either North >Vietnam or South Vietnam. In general the US and it >allies misunderstood the entire political and social >system in Vietnam and incorrectly saw it as a similar >situation to the Korea war. You had an inconstant >strategic and support from different sectors of the US >government in some cases Presidents. Eventually >failing support from the public.
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