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Post by Leonid Govorov on Sept 9, 2017 4:36:30 GMT
What was the most stupid, pointless battle in ww2? Curious to hear your opinions  |
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Post by Nobunaga Oda on Sept 9, 2017 5:12:12 GMT
You missed 2 crucial British failures in WW2.
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Post by Leonid Govorov on Sept 9, 2017 5:30:35 GMT
You missed 2 crucial British failures in WW2. which ones? |
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Post by best75 on Sept 9, 2017 5:41:14 GMT
Does the battle of Los Angeles count?
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Post by Der Kaiserreich on Sept 9, 2017 5:48:41 GMT
I'm going to assume that "stupid" means "dumb" and "bad descision" instead of "opposite of important" (if you get what I mean)
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Post by Leonid Govorov on Sept 9, 2017 5:51:34 GMT
Does the battle of Los Angeles count? Not sure how to edit polls, but yes, Battle of LA and Operation Sealion does count. |
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Post by Nobunaga Oda on Sept 9, 2017 5:53:50 GMT
Operation Sealion technically never happened, only the Battle of Britain.
I doubt you can add in new options to a running poll, you can only remove the existing one & redo from scratch.
Just edit your post & you can see that your poll can be edited.
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Post by Minnesotaball on Sept 9, 2017 12:54:36 GMT
I say staying in Stalingrad. It was stupid to force thousands of troops to sit in a surrounded city and eventually they surrendered.
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Post by Minnesotaball on Sept 9, 2017 12:55:32 GMT
Might not be a battle but Italian invasion of Egypt. They outnumbered the British and still got mauled.
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Post by Leonid Govorov on Sept 10, 2017 2:59:55 GMT
Might not be a battle but Italian invasion of Egypt. They outnumbered the British and still got mauled. Well, that wasn't a stupid idea, just that Graziani(if thats the guy in charge) was a poor soldier |
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Post by Gaius Julius Caesar on Sept 11, 2017 5:03:51 GMT
You missed 2 crucial British failures in WW2. which ones? Dieppe is definitely one of them. There was another British assault on the Germans, that was East of Normandy, I'm forgetting the name. I'll look it up. |
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Post by stoic on Sept 11, 2017 8:42:53 GMT
Dieppe is definitely one of them. There was another British assault on the Germans, that was East of Normandy, I'm forgetting the name. I'll look it up. The Battle for Caen, I presume? |
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Post by Tadamichi Kuribayashi on Sept 11, 2017 13:29:51 GMT
Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran, anyone?
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Post by Nobunaga Oda on Sept 11, 2017 15:34:45 GMT
The one battle Winston Churchill seemed to never have gotten over in WW2, was the Battle of Singapore.
More specifially, the resulting Fall of Singapore (also the battle's other name).
About 85,000 Allied troops engaged 36,000 Japs (not mentioning equipment, arty and armour used in these figures).
7 days later, the Allies unconditionally surrendered the island with about 80,000 Allied troops captured.
Both sides incurred a death/wounded/MIA count of ~ 5,000 men EACH.
The "Gibraltar of the East", Singapore, had her forts & guns pointed the wrong way. They pointed to the sea, practically all towards the South while the Japs (obviously) invaded by land from the North.
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Post by Mountbatten on Sept 11, 2017 21:21:24 GMT
Dieppe was a stroke of military brilliance, and anyone who says otherwise is ignoring the facts!
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