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

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

Ah, the good days. I remember them well

They are for sale my man

German Anti-Partisan Warfare in Europe. I was hit with bad reviews for being a "revisionist", challenging accepted history. I talk a lot about Vlassov, the ROA, etc.

I have two early Rock comics signed by MOH recipient Hernandez, whow as the person they based the character on.

Geevee wrote: "U571 is a good film and i enjoyed it for entertainment. However for me it is disingenuous in that it portrays the US as capturing the enigma and codebooks but it was done by the RN prior to Americ..."

Just to clarify, the RN under the HMS Walker Task Force did secure the U-110 under the command of Fritz Julius Lemp in 1941, gathering an enigma machine and code books. However, on July 4, 1943, the US under Capt. Galloway captured the U-505 with the same result, and, unlike the RN action, they brought the Type VIIC U-boat back to the USA. It is now in the Chicago Mueseum of Science and Industry. Two of my late German friends served on that boat, Thilo Bode, 1st officer (later commanded his own boats), and Hans Gobbeler, who was captured on U-505.

Same here

I would like to toss in A Bridge Too Far, Das Boot, and of course, Defiance, and The Eagle Has Landed

Thanks, the subject of the book I interviewed created special operations in South Africa and Rhodesia.

The most interesting guy I ever interviewed, including SS generals.

If anyone is interested, our new book Four War Boer was released this week in the UK, next week in the USA, from Casemate Publishing, Ltd.

I spent four years in Scotland in graduate school, and I became the master of the rain dodge, as it poured three times per week.

'Aussie Rick' wrote: "Here is a new title for those members who love accounts of WW2 special forces and their operations; The Eyes of the Desert Rats:

[bookcover:The Eyes of the Desert Rats: British Long-Range Reconnai..."

read my next book out in May, Four War Boer, which is the life story of the man who trained the South Africa and Commonwealth commandos who served in those areas.

Geevee wrote: "Liam wrote: "Now back to WWII books... Some of you may already be aware of this, but apparently Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin died several weeks ago. He was the last surviving conspirator of ..."

I interviewed Schmenzin, good man, one among many others who knew Hitler. All of their stories will be in a future book.

Many of the German pilots from WW II flew from Bi-plane to jet age in combat.

Understood Rick, I was not implying that the members here were of that intellectually bankrupt collective. Some of my best friends are Europeans, who are more enlightened than most. Thanks.

Liam wrote: "It is really a shame for us to be arguing about something as idiotic as this, Colin. By all accounts, you are a talented historian and researcher. I'm willing to call a truce if you are."

Truce agreed to. I thought you were one of the Eurotrash sycophants who bashes the USA yet has no understanding of how in the hell they have a free government. My apologies.

I agree, if he had delayed Barbarossa, much more could have been done in the Med, and he could have taken the Persian oil fields and the Suez, in my opinion.

Not sure I would agree with the assessment that the t-34 was the best tank. Having interviewed many tankers from both sides of the war, the numerical supriority and cheap design, rapid production gave the Soviets the edge. The Mk V Panther was better, but the Tiger I had a kill ratio of about 18 to 1 against the t-34 when outnumbered 50-1 on average during the war.

Liam wrote: "It will never cease to amaze me how absolutely infantile Americans are. Am I the only person in this benighted land who thinks it insane to believe that the sight of a penis is more offensive & ha..."

Yes, we Americans are a strange lot, but even stranger is how you lot and the world in general always rely upon we Ugly Americans to bail you out of every war and economic collapse since the least century, and then you go native again, require more assistance and then forget our great contributions.

I have to thank them for giving them to me. I was lucky, and they were all great men.