Lets not forget the D Day dodgers who also played a major role and paid a heavy price
https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/46/a1145846.shtml
All this anti western teaching eventually produces a backlash.
Growing up as an English speaking South African the Afrikaans history of the Great Trek was to say the least over emphasised.
We heard about it all the way through school.
After apartheid the new government de-emphasised the...
This has been discussed many times on the forum.
Not sure why but it does seem true that the general public is more interested in the European theatre.
Seems to hold true for movies and toy soldiers.
Hacksaw Ridge was a great recent movie set in the Pacific.
I have quite a few Iwo Jima...
Wait a minute, Oppenheimer did well. That seems to disprove the statement above pretty easily:
‘Oppenheimer’ surpasses $500 million, sets box office record for highest grossing film set during World War II
I was impressed with Oppenheimer.
To make a block buster which has to explain the...
The Pacific is just not as popular with the general public as the European theatre.
For every Pacific figure K and C makes they make and sell 10 Battle of the Bulge figures.
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