really makes you think
www.warhistoryonline.com/articles/cost-business-the-staggering-cost-wwii.html
Andy
www.warhistoryonline.com/articles/cost-business-the-staggering-cost-wwii.html
Andy
cost of business---ww2 men and equipment
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Some of it is hard to wrap your mind around. The loss of life alone....
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Many years ago I remember reading that in ww1 officer and sr nco fatalities were twice the normal rate the first 3 days a new unit was on the line.
Something to keep in mind as a jr officer
Something to keep in mind as a jr officer
I just finished reading the attached link. Does anybody know if Canada was involved in the war? If we were to read this piece of crap the Dominion of Canada was not there. I guess the 127000 canadians lost in the two world wars were just propaganda told by our parents. The stuff of legends, I guess. Doesn't help living beside the elephant and having been born from the remnants of the last great empire since the Romans. Recognition is something we have not gotten and only matters when we get close to Remembrance Day. It will soon pass. www.terry-kelly.com
Please try the correct link for the "pittance of time" video from my first post. A person really thinks hard with all the sacrafice Canada has been through and the amazing industrial assistance in the war effort by our little country in a time when the world so needed our help. Not much of a shock to know Britain and America don't know we ever existed. Probably a good thing in the long run. We've seen what happens to the little fellah when an elephant moves in a tight space.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kX_3y3u5Uo
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kX_3y3u5Uo
^ The problem is that it is an American article written for 'Muricans.
The Legion Magazine has been doing a series of articles lately about Canada's contributions to the global air war. Go to the website and read some. It will open your eyes as to some of the places Canadian airmen served.
https://legionmagazine.com/en/category/canadian-military-history-in-perspective/airforce/
The Legion Magazine has been doing a series of articles lately about Canada's contributions to the global air war. Go to the website and read some. It will open your eyes as to some of the places Canadian airmen served.
https://legionmagazine.com/en/category/canadian-military-history-in-perspective/airforce/
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Sounds like aerial dogfighting stats. Get through your first 5 dogfights and your survival rate goes up significantly. It is why Top Gun was created. Too many losses of pilots in their first 5 dogfights.
You will see this a lot as Canadians didn't get to write a lot of history. It really is bad regarding WW1 from an American perspective. American troops did not start showing up in France in any number til 1918 and Canadians were there from the beginning. The USA suffered losses for sure but when you compare the tiny population of Canada losing almost 70,000 dead the per capita loss was much greater in Canada. Following WW1 veterans from Great Britain, France, Canada, Australia etc. got pretty bitter with American claims that they "won the war."
