Colin’s Comments (group member since Dec 16, 2012)

Colin’s comments from the THE WORLD WAR TWO GROUP group.

I wonder what about the criminals who did not hand in their guns? Boy am I glad we have the 2nd Amendment and Stand Your Ground Laws.

I went to postgraduate school in Glasgow, where I spoke to many WW II vets, and became friends with Bill Reid, VC recipient.

Gregory Boyington had a very interesting take on both Gen. Chiang and Madame Chiang, whom he knew when with the AVG. See my interview with him.

Annabel wrote: "Colin wrote: "General Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven gave me a lot of great insight into the mechanics, as did Lt. Gen. Hans Baur (among others) who was well aware of details after the war, and luck..."

Yes Anne and I will write another book, focusing upon the comments I gathered from almost 100 people who knew Hitler, Himmler, Goering, etc, and had contacts with the high ranks within the NSDAP.

Although I do not live in the UK anymore I still wear the poppy every November.

I knew Hub Zemke, Walker 'Bud' Mahurin, Robert S. Johnson and Francis 'Gabby' gabreski all of the 56th very well, as well as Shorty Rankin. Good guys. I think Shorty may still be alive.

Steve wrote: "Colin wrote: "I played in the NASL 2nd division in 1979-1982, then they went under. Kyle Rote Jr and Werner Roth (Cosmos) came to see me, and I was on the verge of being recruited. My childhood dre..."

I am 52, older, feeling it, and after years as a paratrooper, grunt/sniper in both the Army and Marines, I am better suited to just watching the young people play and writing history. I have fond memories of being on the same pitch as Klinsmann, Matthaeus, Breitner etc in Germany on a couple of occasions. Getting my leg snapped in two was not one of them.

Read also about the Soviets holding Germans and Axis POWs until 1955, where less than 15% survived.

'Aussie Rick' wrote: "For those WW2 aviation enthusiasts this new release book may hold some interest:


by [author:Peter J..."

Wonder if he refrenced any of my books on those subjects, will have to get this.

General Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven gave me a lot of great insight into the mechanics, as did Lt. Gen. Hans Baur (among others) who was well aware of details after the war, and lucky not to have been killed while flying Hitler from Ukraine in 1944 when the cognac bomb failed to go off.

Great photos indeed. Interviewed many of the men who fought in and against those things. I play World of Tanks, and have a great time with some friends online. Very interactive.

I knew Saburo, see his photos on my website. He was a great and quite humble guy, and he died in 2000 within a week or so of another good friend, Lt. Gen. Walter Krupinski (198 victories). My abridged interview with him has been at www.thehistorynet.com for a while since it was in the magazine.

Gerald wrote: "Colin wrote: "Well, I must weigh in as a historian. First the Indians were given their reservations, and casino privileges, and are not subject to state laws, only federal. they also get preference..."

Republicans do not play the race card, that is exclusively a liberal move, and the position of last resort when their argument fails and their flawed pseudo-socialist policies collapse around them. if they studied history, they would understand that the human dynamic in general only supports free markets. That was what built western civilization. On the other hand, many liberals know this, but keep playing the "collective guilt and dispensation" of wealth platform as a public service message to the lazy and unlucky. However, you never see a liberal politician support a congressional pay reduction, term limits (several GOP candidates and incumbents have) and liberals always play the same tax loopholes, pander to special interest while vilifying conservatives for the same conduct, furthering their own financial cause. Hypocrisy?

Eisenhower did. He wrote 2 letters, one for the success of D-Day if it occurred, giving praise to the men who did it, from all nations. The second was a letter of apology, where he accepted full blame for the failure, which as we know did not happen.

cut from the same cloth were Heinz Guderian, Wolfram von Richthofen, Otto Kumm, Wellington, Erwin Rommel, Hyazinth von Strachwitz, Gebhard von Bluecher, Zhukov, Leclerc, Omar Bradley, James Gavin, Adolf Galland, Matthew Ridgeway, and a few others.

Napoleon never took responsibility for failure, only victory. Most generals are like that, as politics overrides honest pragmatism. Cut from that cloth were MacArthur, Bernard Law Montgomery, Admiral Ernest J. King, and a long list too long for this.

Read my book Four War Boer on the differences b/w the German and Allied use of colnials in the Great War in Africa.

Well, I must weigh in as a historian. First the Indians were given their reservations, and casino privileges, and are not subject to state laws, only federal. they also get preference in many arenas, including employement and education. More can be done, but at least an atempt was made.

Second, regarding blacks, that was completely unacceptable, but if you want to argue the points of slavery, start with Prince Henry the Navigator in 1453, who started it, the Spanish who expanded it, and the English who dominated it. Our slavery issue was a holdover from colonialism. That was abolishied, but the rise of Jim Crow and "seperate but equal" was in my opinion a greater post Civil War travesty.

Ironically, it was the Democratic Party created by Andrew jackson that supported slavery, perpetrated the Trail of Tears, the anti-Indian paradigm, and created Jim Crow. Congress voted on the abolition of slavery, with 100% of Democrats voting "no". Also, FDR was a racist who believed in segregation. It was his wife Eleanore who saw the light. It was Truman who took the lead, desegregating the military, and JFK who was enlightened enough to push against Jim Crow.

The southern Dixicrats were the proponents of the KKK, continued segregation. The Republicans in the House and Senate for the first time in our history sided with a Democratic president, while his own party voted in majority NOT to end separate but equal.

Educate the so called liberals on their own history. It was the GOP who freed and supported black rights, not Democrats.

Spent a couple of days with Simon Wiesenthal, and one of the Mossad men involved in Eichmann's capture in Buenos Aireswas called, and I spoke to him. Very interesting weekend in Vienna I can tell you. Simon made me a lifetime honorary member of the Simon Wisenthal Society. I still have the signed framed portrait and membership card he gave me.

Kristen wrote: "Rick, I've written three books on Aussie pilots now. Australia's Few and the Battle of Britain will be my fourth. Happy, it will be widely available in Australia and New Zealand, Alexander Fax Book..."

Sounds like a good book. I'll bet a few of your pilots are also listed in my book The Star of Africa also.

I interviewed some of the people involved in the plot, who survivied, and I met Gen. Berthold von Stauffenberg, very nice man. My great-great grandmother's family (married into) was a Stauffenberg on my mother's side, dating back around 1400 or so.

As far as the NYT, LA Times, and other ideologically stunted publications, it is not what you read in them so much, it is what you do not read. They will not cover real news when it makes liberals (especially his royal hindquarters Obama) look bad. Go through isses over the last three years, and count how mant times, and the location (if any), if detailed coverage of the many scnadls too numerous to list here.