>flee in terror before your enemies and abandon an allied nation in the process, leaving thousands to be slaughtered and captured
>somehow spin this into an example of glory and heroism, when you would viciously mock and degrade an enemy power for doing the same thing
Is there anything the eternal Anglo can't do? How do they keep getting away with it?
>>1065862
The saying used to go, "Britain loses every battle except for the last one". Nothing Britturds love more than an underdog.
The Dinkirk evacuation made strategic sense and was an impressive feat of logistics but the level to which Brits cream themselves over it is goddamn embarrassing
Then again if you take it away they don't have much from that war to crow over other than the firebombing of Dresden. The best way to be a British hero is to either flee from German soldiers or barbecue German civilians
>>1065862
Also they forgot to mention how it's the surrender monkeys who faced the Germans so the bongs who were cowering on the beachs could evacuate
>>1065926
Poor brittles...
>>1065862
>Smash up all your vehicles to deny them access to the enemy before you leave instead of setting them on fire or blowing them up
>Forget your enemy is German and a natural aptitude to fix things
>This absolute Madman is given a factory in Paris and permission to pick through the captured material
>Repairs enough to field entire divisions.
>>1065930
>the Brits were heroes and the French were cowards
By far the worst WW2 meme
Give the fucking Limeys a land border with Germany and see how long they hold out
>>1065941
>By far the worst WW2 meme
Agreed
Both were cowards imo (but the Brits a little more)
>a stop-order is instated so that the whole British army in Europe won't get wiped out and so that Germany might sue for peace
>Anglos refuse, flees and instead stabs Germany in the back
BEADY
>>1065862
Yes the headline should've said "We're fucked, better surrender to Hitler right this instant." right? Because fuck morale and public opinion.
Eternal Anglos were just the energetic little hype man there to goad on USA and USSR, the real scary bruisers of the allied war effort.
They're like the angry little manlet who gets in a few kicks and stomps while his big buff friends beat somebody up in a bar fight, then proceeds to talk the most shit in the aftermath
>Bomb German cities first
>Cry as Germans bomb your cities
>Go full retard on German cities with the excuse 'We gotta reduce industrial capability, we gotta dehouse, muh reap what you sow'
> Ends up only affecting German output under 10 percent
>War ends and you try to charge Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine officers with war crimes unironically
>Based Goddamn Chest Nimitz doesn't swallow that bullshit, stands up and defends his German counterpart Donitz by admitting he did the exact thing to the Japs as the Krauts did to the Limeys but even worse
>Forces the buttbasted bongs to back down
> Can't charge the Luftwaffe generals without having their defense lawyers point out the amount of shit the Bomber Harris and others did to Germany even after it was clear the war was over
Britbongs everyone.
>>1066012
Well, they're fucking degenerates with a inferior-complex because of their past.
Still like them tho. Probably because their language will be one of the few languages left in the future.
>>1065862
Evacuating 300k men from a makeshift harbor is definitely an amazing feat of logistics. Germany for example got 300k captured because it couldn't pull it off.
This eternal anglo meme is getting way too ridiculous now.
>>1065930
>BEF lost 68,000 casualties or captured
>100,000 French evacuated
watch as the Constant Continental spins lies
and more importantly sinks any potentially interesting thread even marginally related to British history with shitposting
I want /int/ to leave
>>1066012
>Bomb German cities first
fuck off revisionist
>>1066012
Fighting fair is for powerful losers, the brits were weak winners
>>1066012
>Bomb German cities first
>What is Rotterdam
>What is Guernica
Germany had already lowered the bar before a single British bomber flew over German skies
>>1065966
cry more
Why was France allowed to administrate a part of post-war Germany? Why wasn't it just UK/US/ West and USSR East?
>>1067381
Because technically france was at war with germany the entire time and was one of the major powers who beat them. Technically
>>1067352
>Guernica
go away Picasso
>>1067381
To cover the blemish of being occupied for four years I suppose.
>>1067341
Except that they did in 1939, Anglo cuck. It was a miserable failure, but they started that shit.
>>1067352
The British hit Wilhelmshaven first, fuccboi.
>>1067402
>Hitting a military dockyard
>The same as outright targeting the civilian population
You can add Warsaw to the list as well
>>1067334
I agree. The historical crimes the eternal Anglo has gotten away with truly is a ridiculous meme
>>1067339
>BEF lost 68,000 casualties or captured
Not at Dunkirk, faglord
>100,000 French evacuated
Only after every bongs had been evacuated first
>Although Churchill had promised the French that the British would cover their escape, on the ground it was the French who held the line while the last remaining British soldiers were evacuated. Enduring concentrated German artillery fire and Luftwaffe strafing and bombs, the French stood their ground.
>On 2 June (the day the last of the British units embarked onto the ships),[Notes 2] the French began to fall back slowly, and by 3 June the Germans were about two miles (3 km) from Dunkirk. The night of 3 June was the last night of evacuations. At 10:20 on 4 June, the Germans hoisted the swastika over the docks from which so many British and French troops had escaped under their noses.[35][36][37]
>>1067381
America allowed it in order to make sure the French would be on their side for the upcoming Cold War
>>1067387
Free France and the colonies played their roles, overlord operation would have probably been a failure if not for the resistance, after the liberation France helped to beat Germany.
Beside the fact that it was a powerful country that could easily administrate Germany by its proximity, I think it's quite enough.
>>1067443
And this. Also USA wanted to make France a satellite country at the end of the war. De Gaulle was not fond of the idea and prevented it.
>>1067489
>, overlord operation would have probably been a failure if not for the resistance
What? Are you serious?
>>1067513
Yes, that's not well known but that's pretty much a consensus within the historians community.
The resistance made reconnaissance and cut down the supply lines of Germany, preventing them to bring troops in order make a counter attack which would have been disastrous for the allies.
That was also the point of view of the german military staff and Eisenhower who made a speech about it.
>>1067829
Let's not forget how a bunch of partisans in some irrelevant village managed to draw 20,000 German troops away from frontline at the very moment the invasion was occuring
>>1067829
>Yes, that's not well known but that's pretty much a consensus within the historians community.
I have literally never heard a single military historian claim that. Cite three, please.
>The resistance made reconnaissance
This is true, but it was hardly the only source of reconaissance, the constant overflights did quite a bit too.
>and cut down the supply lines of Germany,
Bullshit. As reluctant as Trenchard was to divert bombing resources away from razing German cities to interdict railheads in France, it was the rial offensive in the late spring of 1944 that wrekced the infrastructure, not a few bombs from the inside resistance.
>That was also the point of view of the german military staff
[citation needed]
>Eisenhower who made a speech about it.
[citation needed]
The closest thing I'm aware of to that is a statement by Patton that the French resistance was worth a couple of divisions.
>>1067928
>He actually thinks that troops from the French Alps were there to stop Overlord and not successive landings out of Italy that would later become Dragoon, or that the French resistance had any appreciable part in why those troops were deployed there.
Do you know how many men Devers rounded up and captured with the southern offensive? Do you really think all those troops were there to stop 4,000 rebels, or the entire fucking 7th army?
>>1067932
Harris, not Trenchard. Slip of the pen.
>>1067489
>. Also USA wanted to make France a satellite country at the end of the war.
{{citation needed}}
>muh British cowardice meme
>On the morning of 15 May, French Prime Minister Paul Reynaud telephoned the new British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill and said "We have been defeated. We are beaten; we have lost the battle." Churchill, attempting to offer some comfort to Reynaud, reminded the Prime Minister of all the times the Germans had broken through the Allied lines in the First World War only to be stopped. Reynaud was, however, inconsolable
>Churchill flew to Paris on 16 May. He immediately recognised the gravity of the situation when he observed that the French government was already burning its archives and was preparing for an evacuation of the capital.
>Churchill asked General Gamelin, "Où est la masse de manoeuvre?" ["Where is the strategic reserve?"] that had saved Paris in the First World War. "Aucune" ["There is none"] Gamelin replied.
>Churchill asked Gamelin where and when the general proposed to launch a counterattack against the flanks of the German bulge. Gamelin simply replied "inferiority of numbers, inferiority of equipment, inferiority of methods"
>Gort replied that this was General Billotte, the commander of the French 1st Army Group, but that Billotte had issued no orders for eight days. Ironside confronted Billotte, whose own headquarters was nearby, and found him apparently incapable of taking decisive action.
>New French Commander Weygand had little sense of urgency. He claimed his first mission as Commander-in-Chief would be to get a good night's sleep. Weygand was guilty of wasting valuable time, time that was needed to form a quick and powerful counter-attack.
>He cancelled Gamelin's planned offensive, then wasted several days making courtesy visits to dignitaries in Paris.
>On 23 May, Billotte was killed in a road traffic accident, leaving the Allied First Army Group in the pocket leaderless for three days. Billotte was the only member of the Allied armies thoroughly informed on the Weygand plan's details.
>>1067977
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_Military_Government_for_Occupied_Territories#Opposition_of_France
>>1067993
British cowardice is anything but a meme
You abandoned your continental allies and ran away to your island exactly like you did in 1795
If one lesson can be drawn from history it's that you better not count on Brits to save the day when a country tries to take over Europe
>>1067996
>asked to post source for the claim that us planned make france into a satellite country
>posts something totally different
Well that was pointless.
>>1067993
Some context for the following since I ran out of space
>Gort replied that this was General Billotte, the commander of the French 1st Army Group
Billote was the commander of the Army that the BEF where fighting under. The British where not in command they where fighting for French commanders a commander that then died with orders that he only knew meaning the British had no orders nor option other than to retreat. Weygand could have turned the Battle of France around but he cancelled the original counter offensive and then later proposed a similar one by which time it was too late and the forces where divided. It was the Belgians first who said no counter offence could carry on and warned the Brits that they need to protect the channel ports so they can get home. Britain where no cowards and I am not saying the French where but the French command fucked everyone involved.
>>1068013
Why do you come to the /his/ board and shitpost? why not just go to /int/ or something?
>>1067993
Fun fact: the soldiers on your pic were hailed as heroes by the BEF because they were the ones defending the evacuation for the whole time and only took the sea in extremis after every Brits had fled
>>1068036
Except you are wrong as Brits where left behind.
>On the night of 24/25 May, the defenders were forced to withdraw from the southern enceinte, to a line covering the Old Town and Citadel; attacks next day against this shorter line were repulsed. The Germans tried several times to persuade the garrison to surrender but orders had been received from London to hold out, because an evacuation had been forbidden by the French commander of the northern ports.
French commanders even forbade some British from retreating so that they would stay behind and help hold. Half of all soldiers evacuated at Dunkirk where not even British. Britain is literally nothing but a scapegoat for the Battle of France.
>>1067428
>>100,000 French evacuated
>Only after every bongs had been evacuated first
And most of the French troops who evacuated to the UK were VOLUNTARILY REPATRIATED back to France, where they sat out the war waiting the Allies to save them, while they contributed to the German war effort and when it was over, they all claimed to have been part of La Résistance...
>>1068081
They went back because the war wasnt over yet, but then the government surrendered a few weeks after
There's no much they could have done
>b-but they should totally have deseerted the french army and decided to stay in Britain, thus dooming themselves to exile and maybe never seeing their families again if Britain made peace with Germany a while after
Easy to judge in a hindsight
It's not some epic adventure movie
Not everyone will desert to join the expatried free French corps (that didnt even exist at the time these soldiers went back to France) and fight against le ebul nazi without a second thought
>>1065930
How the fuck did 160,000 Germans not blitzkrieg them
>>1068122
They were ordered to stop.
Gerd von Rundstedt ordered a stop as the Germans themselves needed rest and refueling themselves, but he only made this call because Goring assured him the Luftwaffe would make sure the British were incapable of sending sufficient transports to evacuate them.
Goring, in what would soon be typical fashion, didn't do his job.
>>1068237
Except the stop happened way before that
The moment shown on the pic is when the Germans went on the offensive again
And they did indeed overtake the outnumbered French defenders eventually, the French managed to hold like 3 days, which was just enough to evacuate the BEF the two first days plus 100,000 frogs on the last day
All these mad frenchies
![1449661688632[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/gV4LmPn.png "1449661688632[1].png")
>>1068036
>the soldiers on your pic were hailed as heroes by the BEF because they were the ones defending the evacuation for the whole time and only took the sea in extremis after every Brits had fled
>be french
>invade germany while the germans are attacking Poland
>get driven back
>get conquered
>be British empire
>defend your country
>drive out the Italians and Germans from North and East Africa
>Liberate Italy
>drive Japanese out of India and Burma
>most forces on d-day
>help americans liberate france
>invade Germany, taking cities such as Hamburg
>>1070010
>be french
>invade germany while the germans are attacking Poland
>get driven back
>get conquered
Holy shit, is that how teach history in Britain?
The reason frenchies got BTFO is because they sat on their shitty maginot line while the krauts were in Poland instead of attacking them
>>1070019
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saar_Offensive
>>1069973
>>1070010
Success breeds contempt lads :^)
>>1070010
>be Britain
>declare war on Germany
>send your army on the continent
>it loses in a month and cowardly flees back to the island while the French protect them
>a bunch of exiled Poles are now forced to save Britain from the Luftwaffe
>a few while after that, 85,000 brave Britons surrender Singapore to 36,000 Japs
>Brits now cower on their island until America arrives to save the day in 1944
>Brits bandwagon them
>"Hurra we won!! Britain stronk!! Greatest victory since that time we won the American Revolution (but then decided to withdraw)!!!!"
>>1070043
>projecting this much
>>1065926
The Battle of Britain was a fairly big deal, no?
>>1065941
>the Brits were heroes and the French were cowards
but they were, dumbfuck.
>>1070043
I give you that Singapore was embarrassing af
>>1070061
Dunno about French being cowards, but Brits definitly werent heroes
They were French-tier but just happened to have somewhere to hid
>>1070065
So was your performance on the continent in 1940 and you being saved by Poles after that
>>1070066
>they were french tier
They were being clever, if they didn't evacuate then the Germans would have easily taken the UK.
>>1070066
french were definitely cowards. where do you think the phrase "surrender monkeys" comes from?
as for us brits, we were ALONE fighting nazi germany between 1939-1941. Churchill called it "the darkest hour", because not even amerifats helped us
>>1070073
>saved by Poles
Poles helped us and we are grateful for their help but saying they saved us is ridiculous
>85,000 Brits surrendered to 25,000 Japs armed with 19th century rifles and WW1 tanks
>>1070081
>where do you think the phrase "surrender monkeys" comes from?
British butthurt.
>>1070081
>we were ALONE fighting nazi germany between 1939-1941
If cowering on your island while being bombed to ashes can be called "fighting", that is...
>>1070084
Pathetic Brits denying we saved them
>>1070092
that's a million times more than what the french did (ie surrender and shit themselves in southern france)
>>1070098
Meh
To me it looks just like what the french would have done if they had been separated from Germany by a sea
>>1070092
Actually the UK fought in Greece and Norway... which was all in vain besides the battle of Crete which forced Hitler to stop using such large parachute assaults
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Crete
>>1070101
>>1070101
>surrendered and ran away abandoning their allies both times
>>1070081
>Alone
>dozen commonwealth states supporting them, with the US shadow supporting them
hahaha WE'LL FIGHT THEM ON THE BEACHES
>>1070107
justbritishthings
>>1070107
Norway and Greece were completely occupied, nothing else you could do.
>>1070112
What about being good at war and preventing the Germans from taking over them to begin with?
>>1070116
It was quite hard
>>1070057
the germans didn't win and the british didn't lose
you can't realy say the british won and germans lost
but this outcome favored the brits greatly (it made any kind of german invasion of the isles impossible) while it weakened the german greatly without achieving no decisive advantage (the
RAF manged to regain its strength and even surpass the 1940 level in rather a short time span)
UK's biggest achievement during the war was not losing and putting up a resisting enemy pressure until its stronger allies (US and USSR) managed to change the course of the war, and even this is admirable
>>1070121
I hope you're aware that Italy's numbers dont count
>>1070130
Shooting them down wasted ammo
>>1070121
Britain could have realistically prevented Norway from being taken, except for their mistakes.
Okay, I agree with you guys that Britain was pretty pathetic during WW2, but you can't deny their conquest of Iceland was impressive
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_African_Campaign
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_African_Campaign_(World_War_II)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria%E2%80%93Lebanon_Campaign
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Iraqi_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Soviet_invasion_of_Iran
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_1945_offensive_in_Italy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Campaign_(World_War_II)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Malta_(World_War_II)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burma_Campaign
>>1070160
>being this desperate
>>1070165
>>1070121
Wasn't there at one point one squadron of fighters defending the entirety of Greece from the Luftwaffe? I think Roald Dahl was a pilot in that squadron.
>>1070081
im dying of laughter from just the thought of you being serious,
goddamn thats good
>>1070086
mfw unchallenged
>>1070165
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Blackcock
>>1070429
BIG
we are good at propaganda
>>1070192
He's big on it in his autobiography. Should really reread it, haven't since I was a kid.
>>1065862
>britain's last word to Italy
which was?
>>1070862
>>1068237
>Goering: "Yes we will stop the from evacuating don't worry."
>Goering: "Yes we will supply the encircled 6th Army from the air, don't worry."
Was there anything that Goering did right? Why was his absolute faggotry tolerated?
>>1070889
Because he wasn't really that different from a lot of other aerial commanders, who also had their own ridiculous pie in the sky claims
>Chennault: I can drive the entire Japanese forces in China out with just 500 bombers and fighters to escort them, you won't even need a land offensive
>Harris: I can bomb Germany into submission, we won't even need the army.
>Dobysh: Planes are basically just flying artillery. You don't need to get aerial superiority first, just keep sending bombers while the enemy does the same, and when you win the land battles, you'll find that you've won the air battles.
Planes were these shiny new things that hadn't really shaken off the difference between the glam and the reality.
>All this jealousy
Feels good to know that just being British extracts tears of envy and rage from the entire world.
>>1065862
They dun kirked.
>>1065979
What's the name of the first song?
>>1075818
bump
>ywn be able to discuss british history without memetic /int/ cancer
>ywn be able to discuss egyptian and sub-saharan history without memetic /pol/ cancer
>ywn be able to discuss historiography without retards that confuse all marxism for political marxism
this board is cancer
>>1077446
>putting egyptian and sub-saharan history in the same category
no, anon - YOU are the cancer
>be absolutely defeated
>allies have been wrecked
>try to restore some sort of patriotism and continue the war
Wow, why would any power do that? I'm pretty sure Germany suffered far more defeats at the hands of Russia but still fought to the last man.
Serbia in World War I lost their entire country but continued the fight.
Why am I even replying to a shitposting thread?
>>1065966
>refuse peace offer with someone you're at war with
>"""""""""backstabbing"""""""""""'
>>1070127
>the germans didn't win and the british didn't lose
This is American vietnam war logic
>Put up a valiant defense to keep Central Europeans off their island.
>Bends over voluntarily, spreads their collective asscheeks and begs for enrichment from """"""""Asians""""""" less then four decades later.
Anglos everyone
>>1065862
Я пoлyчил ee вo вpeмя вoйны
>>1077997
because they both get beset by /pol/ shitters, which is the clear and obvious way to read that if you weren't actively looking for an argument you shitcunt
>>1068108
>There's no much they could have done
>>1065926
And what about he war in Africa?
stupid russians always save their perfidious ass
>>1080084
>send your entire army into the desert to spank ppl on scooters who say ciao
>get slapped around by 2 divisions of german reserves
>>1068108
>There's no much they could have done
>What is Poland
Why it fought off three invasions (counting Slovak puppet from the south) simultaneously on a plain with no natural defences and barely one large river, yet inflicted more casualties to all sides and fought longer then France?
Not to mention that Poland technically never surrendered and continued the fight underground. There were at least two underground armies (Armija Ludowa, "People's Army" of communists and Armija Krajowa, "(Home)Land's Army" of republicans), underground higher education (Poles were forbidden to learn under Hitler racial laws) with its own military courses to prepare new officers instead of those killed in war or Katyn.
France had literal mountains, several large rivers, better industry and manpower than Poland yet decided to spread buttcheeks wide because it didn't worth to fight till the end. Hence the memery "France is a chicken, no longer an eagle" tier, and British fleet sinking French fleet.
Seriously, Poland is an indisputable victor state. France was granted victor status and place in Security Council just because British-American alliance wanted a free vote.
>>1065902
Lexington, Bull Run, Pearl Harbor...
It seems that the US loses the first battle, but wins the war.
>>1080169
>Pearl Harbor
>a battle
>>1068013
>If one lesson can be drawn from history it's that you better not count on Brits to save the day when a country tries to take over Europe
"Perfidious Albion"
Still, I find it hard to criticize the BEF for an overall Allied failure. The military and political leadership were criminally unprepared for an actual war, and it wasn't until Churchill took over that the British even managed to put together a coherent strategy.
>tfw brexit
>tfw abandoning the continent to burn one last time for the road before the muzzies get us
>>1070081
>where do you think the phrase "surrender monkeys" comes from?
The Simpsons??
>>1068013
They're not cowards, just incredibly selfish. All nations are selfish but Britain especially so.
>>1070077
>the Germans would have easily taken the UK.
no, they literally didn't have the means to do that
>Be Brit
>Everyone universally hates you
>Compared to Jews
>Fellow countrymen have to be assholes just to cope
I never asked for this, anons.
>>1067428
>British ships, with British crews, using British supplies, funded by British taxpayers as part of a British operation, picks up British soldiers first and then the French
>this triggers the shitposter
>>1070043
>Muh poles
This meme needs to die. There were 150 of them, out of 3,000 total.
>>1065862
because we fucking won, that's how we got away with it; suck it jerry
>>1081282
>everyone
>shitposters who don't actually know what the word "perfidious" "anglo" or "cuck" mean or who Oswald Mosley was but some other shitposters said them so it must be cool.
>>1070081
>surrender monkey
Bong proving yet again that the only people to blame for America's cultural flaws are the Brits.
>>1065991
Don't forget
>the sun never sets
I'm so fucking tired of the English revising history to pretend that they didn't just get lucky that they got an island and someone from France to unite them.
>>1070057
It was fought by Poles and Czechs.
>>1070098
This.
The French are major cucks who'd rather suck a million German cocks than admit that they fucked up and Britain outclassed them (like always).
>>1065862
>>1065902
>>1065926
>>1065930
>this is nolan's next movie
Hahahaha
>>1081942
>141 Polish pilots
>87 Czech Pilots
>2,700+ British pilots
>battle of Britain was fought by Poles and Czechs
Memes have rotted your brain.
>>1070127
>stronger allies
>maintained blockade of Germany while continuing to fight a war across the globe
I'm an American but claiming the British were just lucky island monkeys the whole war is just dumb. The British won the Battle of Britain.
>>1082378
It's gotten to the point where people on this board would rather ignore actual history and facts than admit Britain achieved something. It's utterly ridiculous and they should be ashamed of themselves frankly.
