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To: Serge Collins who wrote (21714)	10/15/1998 3:33:00 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116764

This #reply-6023019 was not 'setting the record straight'. "...a defeated nation after Dunkirk." - "Some chicken, some neck." "...sat out the war..." - 17,101 were lost in the RCAF alone. Each country, each individual had its/his own war. Sure - for the Irish it was a foine auld toime, but just try to tell a guy from a Recce regiment that North Africa was 'minor skirmishes'. You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.

To: Serge Collins who wrote (21714)	10/15/1998 3:34:00 PM
From: Enigma	Respond to of 116764

Serge - well it is true that the British are an island race - and to that extent the Channel saved them - but to say that after Dunkirk they were a defeated people is absolutely false - and is in itself a fairy tale, If the Battle of Britain had been lost the invasion would have been launched and Britain would probably have ben defeated - at enormous cost to both sides. But the Battle of Britain was won - so that is that - and if this had not happened D-DAY could not have happened, and the course of the war would have been entirely different. Britain was defeated financially by the war - the United States ended the war as a vastly more powerful nation, and West Germany - the defeated one - became the economic power of Europe, in large part due to the Marshall Plan. E