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  1. Chispa

    Titanic ( merged )

    While a considerable amount of evidence, all theories are questionable in the Titanic saga, as being the main cause, certainly hitting the iceberg largely contributed.  After some rough conditions on Lake Erie last week I just noticed these 3 rivets about ready to pop! Anyone have this happen...
  2. Chispa

    Titanic ( merged )

    My apologies should’ve elaborated; I know you’re not disputing, just added the inquiry U mentioned for those interested, and the rivet theory. I can’t emphasise the importance of metal and rivets, even a plane requires expensive alloys, rivets, bolts, and all manufactured too special...
  3. Chispa

    Titanic ( merged )

    A fire in the sinking was argued many moons ago…aliens…wasn’t christened…the moon…all certainly questionable or a combination of factors sunk the Titanic. AS FJAG posted on the Inquiry, fallow link: Page 243 - British Inquiry into Loss of RMS Titanic Day 1 – 5: 5238. Did you help to get the...
  4. Chispa

    Amchitka AAF 1943

    Hi T6, G2G; thank you kindly, however although I have a SWW RCAF folder with photos from LAC, and aware RCAF Sqn’s., stationed in Alaska, the rest is all new to me. Bolingbroke and worktent of No. 8(BR) Sqn, RCAF, Nome, Alaska, 1942. RCAF officer talks to a First Nations man employed on a...
  5. Chispa

    US Election: 2016

    CNN: Obama must pardon Manning and Snowden before Trump takes office. President Obama should pardon Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden before President-elect Trump takes office and makes two internationally embarrassing situations worse. In a 2013 article for The National Law Journal, I argued...
  6. Chispa

    Amchitka AAF 1943

    Royal Canadian Air Force's No. 111 Squadron packed up and left Pat Bay on June 3, 1942.  For the next five days they traveled, some by rail and sea, some by air, to Alaska, arriving at Anchorage on June 8, 1942. 111 Squadron served a primarily defensive role while at Elmendorf. They were to fly...
  7. Chispa

    US Election: 2016

    Tht’s MO; Obama over Trump, although character wise, it might unfold in 2019 with “Mr. Wonderful,” Kevin O’Leary. Mr. Wonderful comes to Ottawa, and he’s ‘pissed off’ “I’m in Ottawa because I am one pissed-off taxpayer,” O’Leary later tells me in an interview. “I want to get the public...
  8. Chispa

    Hong Kong- Merged

    Source: DHH 2 H.Q., “unofficial” Report No. 52.,  31st., May 1952: On all occasions when Canadian forces operated detached during the Second World War, their commanders were provided With special directives defining their relationship to the British or Allied forces With and under Which they...
  9. Chispa

    US Election: 2016

    Odds on Donald Trump being impeached shorten amid flurry of bets on President-elect not serving full term Ladbrokes opened market on Trump leaving office early by impeachment or resignation at 3-1 but has twice cut its price as punters pile in...
  10. Chispa

    Global Warming/Climate Change Super Thread

    First I question anything deriving from the Russians, although (LIA), already accrued as the northern parts of the world froze over from ca 1300 -1850. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age All this crying over Global Warming & Climate change is a easy $$$$$$$$$$$ grab, not counting...
  11. Chispa

    Is Your Organization Effective? (Sadly, probably not)

    True; fragging mostly surfaced during Nam, a humane method of killing or seriously injuring a NCO, officer when he goes off the rails, endangering, abusing the lives under his command. If I remember correctly; read cases in which pte., vs pte., etc., hated each others guts, or what ever. Still...
  12. Chispa

    Slow Erosion of Military History

    My understanding first used by Harris, a biblical reference in response to the 1940 Blitz: ... Rotterdam, London, Warsaw, and half a hundred other places, they put that rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now, they are going to reap the whirlwind. Now in Churchill: The...
  13. Chispa

    Slow Erosion of Military History

    Over a decade ago posted a thread on a few war forums website deriving from a controversial study-paper I complied styled: Allied War Crimes During WWII/SWW, noted all outraged by my suggestions, and hastily deleted. See Axis Forums Allied War Crimes the thread was started over 10 years ago and...
  14. Chispa

    Slow Erosion of Military History

    I’m without any academic or historian credentials for that matter, although interested in the paper chase, separating facts from established historian folklore; helps with my dyslexia…reading/writing. During the 70s, in grade and high-school, history classes were mostly civil, some Cdn/Que, with...
  15. Chispa

    Slow Erosion of Military History

    For over a decade, although at a slow rate, awareness has grown on Canada’s involvement in the F & S.W.W., considering civil history has always been front and centre in the education system: According to a ca 2009  Epsos Ried poll only 10 % of Canadian’s were aware of Canada’s involvement in the...
  16. Chispa

    Dieppe merged thread (70th Anniversary, historical debates, etc.)

    Robertson is questionable, been decades believe like U stated, provides not much on documents, sources, without footnotes just like many traditionalist; per say AT WHATEVER COST by R.W. THOMPSON Published 1956. Free PDF download: https://archive.org/details/atwhatevercost006210mbp CBC Digital...
  17. Chispa

    Dieppe merged thread (70th Anniversary, historical debates, etc.)

    Many support that narrative, COC in the top 5 of lessons learned, the "planners" were biting on more then they could chew.  CBC Digital Archives 1942: Carnage on the beaches of Dieppe LISTEN 00:00 14:35 "We have suffered heavy losses, and I saw our men die," says CBC Radio's Robert Bowman...
  18. Chispa

    All Things Cuba (Castro, politics, etc.)

    Fidel Castro, Cuba's leader of revolution, dies at 90... Cuba's former president Fidel Castro, one of the world's longest-serving and most iconic leaders, has died aged 90. His younger brother and successor as president Raul Castro announced the news on state television. Castro toppled the...
  19. Chispa

    Mysterious Pyramids Found in Antarctica: Look for the Star Gate.

    Japan's Ancient Underwater "Pyramid" Mystifies Scholars...... The district of Yonaguni officially owns the formations, and tourists and researchers can freely dive at the site.Some experts believe that the structures could be all that's left of Mu, a fabled Pacific civilization rumored to have...
  20. Chispa

    Mysterious Pyramids Found in Antarctica: Look for the Star Gate.

    Yes that's what I heard many believe it's a natural formation....... C.U.
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