The French would surrender to one man armed with a Laus Rocket and six shells.
Aunt Jemimah is too much for the French military.
2007-12-31 13:45:05
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answered by Jeff L 3
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22/08/1914:
27,000 French soldiers are killed on this single day in an offensive thrust to the east of Paris, towards the German borders.
World War I cost France:
1,357,800 Military dead,
4,266,000 military wounded
(of whom 1.5 million were permanently maimed).
and 537,000 made military prisoner or missing --
exactly 73% of the 8,410,000 men mobilized, according to William Shirer in "The Collapse of the Third Republic."
Some context:
France had 40 million citizens at the start of the war;
six in ten men between the ages of eighteen and twenty-eight died or were permanently maimed.
10% of the active population and 3,5% of the total population died on the battlefields.
As a comparison, if this were to happen now in the United States, the number of casualties would reach 10 million.
There would also be 680,000 widows and 760,000 orphans.
Between 1914 and 1918, the drops in births in France is estimated at 1 million.
Regarding WWII, between 1939 (when war was declared by France and the United Kingdom) and 1940:
120,000 French soldiers died, not to mention the number of French citizens who died as war prisoners, forced labourers, deported civilians or in acts of resistance against the Nazis during the German Occupation.
The amount of suffering occasioned by WWII in France is impossible to assess and should not be forgotten.
Easy to ridicule the French, but what about the U.S.A.?
Could not win W.W.1 alone came in at the end (fact)
Could not win W.W.2 alone (came in after December 1941)
I am not disputing the fact that Americans, helped the Allies with equipment and served and died, but, the fact for as many times in modern history the French have lost America has too!
Classic examples: French Indo-china*.
America in Vietnam*.
* For the anally retentive its the same place on the planet!!
France in Algeria.
America in Somalia!!
The French Airforce are currently in service in Afghanistan and fly combat bombing missions.
The U.S.A. and FRANCE are military allies (NATO) only a retard would think it smart to point out the French poor points when their own country suffers from the same effect.
2008-01-01 05:19:32
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answered by conranger1 7
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If you read it somewhere, it must be true.
2007-12-31 20:56:14
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answered by Otto 7
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