Militaria

Who then is the greatest Roman Emperor? This is a question for scholars and mystics. So, before we obtain our Ph.D or alchemists license, let us look at those great Roman Emperors. One of my personal picks is the Emperor Valentinian.
The best biography I have found of this great man, rightly called the last of the Great Soldier Emperors, is here * .

Things to observe:

1) Valentinian, even though his mighty rule occurs late in the empire, is not weak, nor dependent upon German mercenaries. This disproves or weakens the old argument that the empire rotted in some slow fashion.

2) Observe the role of the Goths in the decline of the empire. This horrible tribe was loyal to the house of Constantine. Can you see how they rebelled after the fall of this dynasty? Given that the Goths were Arian heretics, one can conclude that the subsequent Orthodox (also called Catholic) theology was not that of the original christian emperor, Constantine.

3) The fading of the cult of Mithras * is evident in the absence of records of this great cult. What the heck was going on? Mithraism was very strong, especially in the roman army. Now suddenly it vanishes! Hmmmm. Did they go underground?

The Mayor is sick. All loyal citizens of Mitchieville should offer sacrifice to the gens and genius of our first citizen. I am collecting money to send him a present.

Fenris Badwulf, Praetorian Prefect.

What Pamela Wallin Said - a rant by Reg

The Independent Panel on Canada's Future Role in Afghanistan released it's report yesterday to the Government of Canada (pdf of report here) and firmly stated that Canada should remain in Afghanistan until 2011 and that NATO has to add at least another battle group to Kandahar Province to assist Canada with combat operations there (more details here and here).

The report clearly states the importance of our work there in the past, present and future. It is in a statement to the press by panel member Pamela Wallin, one of Canada's most respected and accomplished women, that tells Canadians why we need to be in Afghanistan:

I think in the past few months, we have all been profoundly changed by what we have seen and what we have heard, and most powerfully more me by the Afghan people themselves. Their spirit has not been defeated by decades of war with the Soviets, the poverty, or the unspeakable terror of the Taliban. They want to take charge of their future, not necessarily to build a democracy as we know it, but when they are able and ready, they are already more than willing to take on responsibility for the safety of their citizens.

We are in Afghanistan because we chose to be there. We, like our allies, responded to the attacks of 9/11. We lost citizens too. But the Taliban and al-Qaeda continue to pose a threat to us here and there and they try to undermine what we believe in and what we stand for. Yes, we are putting our troops in harm's way. We are at war. This is not some simple peacekeeping operation reminiscent of a simpler, easier time. But our men and women are there willingly and enthusiastically, and they take pride not only in their military operations but also in the faces of the young girls, once shrouded, who now proudly sit in school and write their names with pencils provided by our aid dollars. Success for Afghans and for us is stability and a sense of hope. That is our exit strategy.

It will take time, but we forfeit our leverage to succeed if we threaten to leave with every roadside bomb or mortar round. Our sacrifice has been very real, precious lives lost, hearts broken, but this is urgent and important. In Afghanistan, we are there because we have a moral obligation, there is a security imperative, and a monumental humanitarian need. Our work there I think rekindles our proud tradition of being participants and not just observers on the world stage.

These eloquent words should be a source of pride to all Canadians, yet on the news I saw some of Canada's opposition party leaders demanding we pull out now (and a third stammer foolishly while committing to doing nothing). These three men are wrong, they are an embarasment to Our Country, and I hope that Prime Minister Harper wipes the floor with them in the next general election.

h\t: Mr. C.

Friday Morning Female Flesh

Ministry of Munitions Edition

It is only a matter of time before Mitchieville, acting under the orders of Dark Lord Kucinich, launches it's invasion of the United States. Today we'll be looking at the ladies whose work is rarely recognized but is a vital part of our war effort.

Our very own Linds, amateur graphic designer and Kucinich loyalist, designed this motivational poster for Mitchieville. That's me in the suit.


Alejandra looks great in her stylish steel toed high heels and operates a Front-End Loader at Munitions Quarry #4. When the invasion begins, Alejandra will drive the Mitchieville Command Vehicle and Recreational Centre (seen below) into battle. You can't see him but The Mayor is in his command Lazy-Boy Recliner while reviewing training drills.
















These young ladies have been trained by Suvorov to blend in with San Francisco hippies and then use their water cooled Maxim Gun on unsuspecting Yankee imperialist soldiers. Never trust women wearing black faux-boa trim on their dresses.






On the left, our Medical Officer eschews tradition by wearing an all black leather uniform designed by Sonjia DeSade.

Captain Holmes, on the right, disarms foolish American 'teeth fetish' men with her 1000 Watt smile.


Here we have the heart of the Munitions Ministry: Ordnance Assembly. Despite a sternly worded Cease and Desist letter from the United Nations Security Council, Sgt-General of Artillery Badwulf has ordered some 1000 Phosgene Shells for use high density urban areas. Should it appear that these shells are about to fall into Yankee hands they are to be dumped into Lake Erie where we assume no one will notice the difference in water quality.

















My sister builds guns for living in rural Peterborough County and it was her idea to develop the 'Hello Kitty' pattern of weapons to encourage more female teenage recruits. This variant has a a ten power scope and laser sight just like in the video games. Just remember 'Center Body Mass' girls!













It's Safety Week at Mitchieville. I can assure readers that here at the Munitions Ministry once we meet production quotas, profit targets, and take month long tropical vacations, safety is our number one concern. I thought I should share this picture with you:

Second Class Forklift Driver Hillary got her job at the Phosgene Shell Factory because her husband, William, had been a forklift operator at the same factory for 8 years. When Hillary applied for the job she told everyone who would listen, even those who didn't want to listen, that hearing about her husbands 8 years experience was enough experience for her to drive the forklift. We got lucky in the above incident as no one died and the damage was minimal. I suggest that none of you take that chance though. Thinking about it now, William was a much better forklift operator than the guy who took over for him, George. But neither George, William, or George Sr (a good and decent forklift operator in his own right) were as good as Ron. Ron was so good at driving forklift he put our main competitor out of business!


Where the hell was I? Here is a little Ministry of Munitions eye-candy to get you through the day. If you want anything better I suggest you look at the non-hoohoo picture from yesterday.
















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Asbestos - Canada's weapon of world domination!

We are either going to be fighting with the Americans, or fighting against them. Since our elites in the judiciary, media, and bureaucracy do not much like the Americans, we should then, logically, be preparing to go to war.

Artillery, regardless of your political orientation, be it Bolshevik, Trotskyite, Maoist, Stalinist, Anarchist, Liberal, or Feminist, will play an important part in Canada's War of Conquest against America. Artillery represents a disproportionate amount of a divisions fire power. Usually, a division has one regiment of artillery to three regiments of infantry, but this one regiment represents some sixty percent of the total strength.

Artillery is expensive to make. The actual tube, breech block, and limber, is made from expensive steel alloys, requires costly machining operations that use both skilled workers and precision tools * . The artillery rounds, like wise. While you need infantry to take and hold ground, you need artillery to blow them to bits to both soften up the enemy for conquest, and scare him away from attacking.

So, for our logical objective of War with America, we will need cannon, howitzers, and railway guns. A secret study, leaked to me from a sympathetic member of the Canadian War Machine, calls for five artillery divisions to support our glorious invasion force as we crush American capitalism.

In order to save money, I suggest that our artillery shells be filled with Asbestos, instead of more traditional ingredients, such as ball shrapnel, phosphorus, phosgene, or mustard gas.

Asbestos has many advantages over traditional artillery fillers.

Asbestos is cheap. Cheap both to make ... effectively each round is a bored cylinder of concrete. In this case, a fine mixture of ground asbestos mixed with some suitable cementing agent, then the necessary hole is bored out for the burster charge and fuse. Depending on the application, larger or smaller amounts of explosive can be used.

Shells can also be made alot cheaper using the a 'thin wall' shell, rather than some sort of precision steel alloy 'thick wall'. And, let us face it, most artillery rounds do not actually hit anything, so the expense made in making a precision round is usually wasted (exception being an anti-tank round, for which asbestos is useless; our Panzertruppen would get real shells, not asbestos-concrete).

Being cheaper, our vanguard forces can employ morale destroying rolling barrage and carpet bombardment methods. And, if collectivist wisdom prevails, wide spread use of rocket artillery can be employed as well. Each of our artillery divisions has a rocket regiment deploying some seventy-two Nebelwerfer type multiple launchers. Certainly the earth would shake and the enemy be covered in a cloud of asbestos dust!

Yes, worker-comrades, it is time for Canada to stop playing footsie with the American foe and return to our traditional military tension with the despicable capitalist scum to the south. Tell your department commissar or neighbourhood progressive block leader that you support the use of asbestos for artillery rounds.

Imagine * , our valiant Red Hordes, armed with nothing more than a bamboo spear and a hand grenade, swarming over the barb wire entanglements, through the mine fields, across the interlocked fields of machinegun fire, and into the sand-bagged heart of the evil Americans. Let us finish the job of Aritomo Goto * and give peace a chance.

Let us be one-spirited with Jane Fonda, let us shout: Marine, you die!

I, Fenris Badwulf, wrote this.

Getting Things Done The Slim Way

“His encounter with the Japanese in Burma, recounted in Defeat into Victory, was no such lark. Fought with little air support in jungles with few roads, it remains one of the brightest Allied chapters in World War II history. In 1942, after service in the Middle East, Slim was ordered to the command of the First Burma Corps in Prome. Neither he nor his army stayed there long.

Armed with World War I weapons and saddled with trench-war concepts of strategy, the corps proved no match for the Japanese, who steadily and easily pushed the British back to the Indian border. By the spring of 1942, Slim admits, "we, the Allies, had been outmanoeuvred, outfought, and outgeneralled." Slim, as commander of the XV Corps and then of the Fourteenth Army, planned carefully for revenge.

He gradually built up the shattered confidence of his troops—who regarded the Japanese as invincible in jungle fighting—by refusing at first to engage in battle unless he had an overwhelming superiority in numbers, and could make sure of victory. Since the Burmese theater stood low on the priority list for supplies and troop replacements, Slim turned poverty to good advantage.

His support forces learned to improvise, devising jute parachutes for supply drops when silk ones were unavailable, arming yachts and tugboats with Bren guns to replace unavailable gunboats. His armies discovered that full field equipment hindered mobility, and often went to battle as lightly armed as guerrillas.” - Time Magazine, Aug. 24, 1962

Getting Things Done The Zhukov Way

"In 1939 he commanded the Red Banner army in Outer Mongolia, where the Russians were engaged in a frontier struggle with the Japanese. Zhukov applied classic cavalry tactics to armored warfare: he massed his tanks, smashed a hole through the center of the Japanese Sixth Army, and bloodily crushed its flanks between his fanning-out Panzers and advancing infantry. This little-known action helped deter the Japanese from attacking the Soviet rear in 1941, leaving Stalin free to bring his Siberian troops westward to the defense of Moscow'.

Zhukov was the man in charge of Moscow's defense. He administered the first major defeat the Wehrmacht suffered. Assigned to Stalingrad, he transformed a threatened Russian disaster into a German catastrophe. Then it was Leningrad's turn, and again Zhukov—ruthless and imperturbable, yet strangely capable of inspiring his peasant soldiers—broke a German siege. From defense he turned to offense, flaming westward across the Ukraine in 1943, into Poland in 1944." - Time Magazine - Feb. 21, 1955

Getting Things Done The Zhukov Way

"When Zhukov broke through the Bug line a month ago, the whole German line began to fall back. Zhukov knew he could not encircle a force retreating twelve to 18 miles a day, decided to outrace it.

The German units changed their route again & again, wasted men and precious time. Zhukov began to push them off the roads, compel them to accept battle in swamps. The orderly retreat had been turned into flight. Heavy equipment was left behind. Supply trains clogged up the roads. He seized its roads, rail centers, by quick penetrations, straddled the few good retreat routes across a muddy, wooded flatland.

Said Moscow: in four weeks of March, Zhukov's army alone killed 183,000 men, captured 25,000, seized or destroyed 2,100 tanks, 4,600 guns, 54,000 trucks. Last week, at two railway junctions, Red units captured 1,600 railroad cars loaded with food, ammunition, loot, wounded Germans." - Time Magazine, April 17, 1944

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Week of Death – Day 5

Sorry for the late post but the town I live in was celebrating the Pagan-Christian holiday of Christmas tonight with a parade and my kiddies were on one of the floats. Today’s entry for the Week of Death will hardly be a surprise to anyone as this is the “date which will live in infamy”.

December 7, 1941 – Japan attacks Pearl Harbor

If all you know about Pearl Harbor (which I spell in my Canadianese “Harbour”) is what you learned from watching the dreadful movie “Pearl Harbor” a few years back then I want to set a few things straight:


1. The sole Japanese target at Pearl Harbor was not the Battleships, but the Aircraft Carriers. Battleship are big and fearsome but they are not an ideal offensive weapon. The carriers and the planes they held was the threat that Japan sought to eliminate. As the carriers were at sea then the Battleships by default became the next capital target to eliminate. Japan would pay dearly for not finding and destoying the carrier during the attack on Pearl Harbor.

2. Ships need fuel to run, had the fuel stores at Pearl been destroyed the United States Navy would have been forced to send her fleet to San Francisco for refueling. This would have added weeks on to the sailing time for the fleet and would have left the USN effectively guarding the coast till fuel stores could be replenished (this would take at least a year to do). The point – failing to find the Aircraft Carriers the primary target should have been the fuel stores (and the Dockyard that would repair the ships) at Pearl as all of the Pacific fleet ships need these fuel stores to continue operations. This was a fatal oversight in the operational planning by Japan.

3. 2,388 Americans were killed at Pearl Harbor and another 1,178 wounded. While Japan scored a major tactical at Pearl the attack must be viewed as one of the key strategic blunders of the war and is equal to Hitler’s stupid decision to invade Russia. Neither Ben Affleck or that Josh Harnett guy were harmed at any time during World War II.

4. Six Battleships were damaged or destroyed at Pearl Harbor. Of the battleships, 2 were destroyed outright, another 3 were sunk, and the sixth (USS Nevada) ran herself aground to avoid sinking and blocking the harbor. The four damaged battleships were all eventually repaired and served in combat against Japan. The United States of America declared war on Japan (and Germany) the next day. The Pacific Fleet quickly recovered and the following June trounced the Japanese Navy at the Battle of Midway. The surrender ceremony for Japan on September 2, 1945 was held on the deck of the Battleship USS Misouri.

Other linky links: Mitchieville’s newest blogger, Steamboat McGoo, has an excellent Pearl Harbor post at his blog ‘ Aardvarks and Asshats ’. The web contains millions of pages on this topic but I suggest starting here .

Week of Death total: 36,338 and still two days to go

Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4 , Day 5, Day 6, Day 7

Mitchieville Remembers the Avro Arrow

She would be 50 years old today:



Fifty years ago today Canada stood at the forefront of the aviation world. The Avro CF-105 Arrow was the fastest and most technologically advanced fighter-interceptor in the world. Her delta wing design took away the breath of the nation. Rather disappointingly for the engineers and pilots of the project it was on this same day that the Soviets launched Sputnik 1 into space. While Canada was looking at a jet in Malton, the world was looking up at the stars.

The list of technological first’s that this plane introduced to the world fills a page (see the list below the Arrow specs). For two years she was the pride of the nation. At three-quarters thrust in test flights the CF-105 nearly hit MACH 2. Sighting cost over-runs and little interest from international buyers the Government of Canada cancelled the CF-105 project in 1959.

The cancellation of the Arrow in 1959 and the order to destroy of all the test aircraft was a huge blow the Canadian aeronautics industry. Just as significant was the blow to the national psyche. The cancellation of the Arrow has been a weight on the heart of many Canadians. If out of something bad something good can come about then this would be true for the CF-105 project. From Wikipedia:

"Following the Canadian government's cancellation of the Avro Arrow project in 1959, CF-105 Chief Aerodynamicist Jim Chamberlin led a team of 25 engineers to NASA's Space Task Group to become lead engineers, program managers, and heads of engineering in NASA's manned space programs—Projects Mercury, Gemini and Apollo. This team would eventually grow to 32 Avro engineers and technicians…, Jim Floyd (whose design studies at Hawker Siddeley (Avro Aircraft's UK parent) on the HSA.1000 SST design studies were ultimately influential in the design of the Concorde).”

Most Canadian’s have come to accept that Canada loss was the world’s gain. Fairly or not, many see the Avro Arrow cancellation as the embodiment of a national dream crushed by a cruel government. The great John Diefebaker, never shy to controversy, defended his decision which can be seen here at the CBC Archives (the archives have a wealth of good stuff there folks, I highly recommend).

Today the few remaining pieces of the CF-105 project can be seen at the Canada Aviation Museum in Ottawa. A myth survives that one of the aircraft escaped the cutting torches and has been hidden from the Government every since (I say she’s hiding in the Madawaska Valley). In reality the Avro Arrow only survives in memory and on the web. This site is arguably the best.

Militaria

It is, of course, inevitable that Canada will be in the forefront of nations leading a sneak attack upon the evil heteronormative America. Aided by hundreds of thousands of American citizens who are dedicated to overthrowing the corrupt constitution, the depraved family values of taxpayers, and championing the rights and handouts of taxspenders, our valiant Canadian Red Flag Forces will crush America in an lightning campaign lasting only a few years.

America will not use its nuclear arsenal to defend its own soil, especially when so many of its own citizens are involved in its own destruction. Jane Fonda will stop foreign aggressors from getting nuked, and lead the victory parade through the burnt out ruins of Washington ... soon to be renamed Benedict Arnold Global Village. Our activist planners estimate that only a small fraction of American despotic military might (some 91 to 95 percent of their air forces, for example) will survive our sabotage, and that Toronto, being the capital of political correctness in opposition to heteronormative evil, will receive a few air strikes. This post discusses the likely type and effect of an American air strike on the Portland Power generating station, currently under construction in the Toronto Port area.

The Portland Power station. Designed to meet the needs of Toronto's most needy citizens, this plant is planned to provide electricity for homeless shelters, food banks, and activist photo-copiers when other sources of free energy have failed. The plant is composed of big metal machines and big slabs of concrete, being built by greedy taxpayers who have too much money. This sort of target should be easy to destroy for an evil empire like America.

High Explosives. Unfortunately, these weapons, like the five hundred pound bomb, are incapable of physically obliterating the machinery of the power plant. You can see this is true by a study of pictures of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The paper houses are ashes, but the stone buildings are still standing. The same would happen at the power plant after a carpet bombing. Sure the contents are a bit charred and the paper scattered about, but the actual big metal machines would survive, to be put back into operation quickly.

Precision Weapons. If we can get our friends in the United Nations to ban these weapons, we can escape the damage they would cause to our homeless shelter infrastructure. Otherwise, we can surround the plant with a hand holding ring of activists, as well as planting trees to encourage bio-diversity. A children's nursery school on the roof should make the power plant invulnerable to any sort of precision attack. The Americans live in fear of disapproval of the United Nations, and any sort of activist attacks upon their schools and hospitals (especially by our Jane Fonda Fifth Columnists) will not be enough to get them to defend themselves.

Mustard Gas. The American War Machine has no stockpiles of this weapon, no means of delivering it, and no training in its use. Which makes it the most likely non-existant secret weapon that the evil heteronormative Americans will use. We should claim right from day one until day five thousand that they are using this stuff. Due to its persistant properties, Mustard Gas is the most effective way of taking the power plant out of operation. We can use forced labor (taxpayers) to march into the contamination to run the plant, thereby saving the air-conditioning at Activist centers, especially for crucial water coolers, staff kitchenettes, and computer printers. Protest now, manufacture facts to support the protests, and then use it ourselves on Texas.

I, Fenris Badwulf, wrote this at both Mitchieville and DustMyBroom

The Russians (and their new friends) Are Coming!

If it wasn’t so terribly true you would swear it came from a Tom Clancy novel. Our ancient enemies have conspired against us and the freedom loving capitalist ways of North America. A trap is about to be set and once sprung we will find ourselves under the barrels of their merciless guns. What is this trap? The Russians are set to build a $12 Billion dollar tunnel under the Bering Strait to Alaska .



The mass airborne assault once visualized in the movie Red Dawn will no longer be needed. In 20 years the commies will drive ashore in Alaska and send their armoured columns down the Alaska-Canada Highway into the heart of Northern British Columbia.


A venture this expensive has to have some serious financial backing. What freedom hating country is helping finance this venture? China. It gets worse, what country has offered underground drilling services at half the market cost? Japan. It is clear now, a new axis of evil has emerged: Communist China, “Democratic” Russia and Japan. China covets our vast tracts of arable land. Russia covets our oil reserves and the Stanley Cup. Japan, they seek revenge for the events of August 1945 and reparations for the Cheap Trick ‘Live At Budokan’ album.

Canada must act now must act now! Mandatory conscription for two years service of all able-bodied persons between the ages of 18 and 40 must begin at once (that includes you as well Quebec). CFB Cold Lake must have its fighter wing tripled in size. The PPCLI must form new companies and station them in urban areas of western Canada. Armouries must be built in places like High Level, Peace River, Fort Nelson, Terrace and Dawson City. A wall will be built around Whitehorse and that fair city is to be defended until all the resident Yukonians are dead. Watson Lake is now a bona fide defensive nuclear target. Plans must be made to raze Fort McMurray.

We will not stand alone brother and sister freedom lovers. Surely France, England and Belgium will send their young children to fight and die on our soil as we so selflessly fought and died for them on their soil in the great wars of the last Century. Yes, the French will make those dirty Cossacks think twice. Most importantly of all, I, Suvorov, will fight along side you. The building of the Pacific Wall fortifications will begin tonight.

Fight, Resist, Attack!


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The Early Spring Offensive of 1943

In Stalin's contented mind, the days of upset tummy were over. The great victory at Stalingrad was relentlessly shouted to the workers in the rear area factories. There were few survivors of those other battles with the ferocious Nazi's from the battles of Kharkov in March. The victors of the siege of Leningrad had subsequently perished of famine and an epidemic of some unknown disease which seemed to be a cross between syphilus and acne. All was good in Stalin's realm. All information flowed into the underground administration bunkers in Moscow, and all that information was good.

According to Stalin's spy chief, Beria, Hitler only had two hundred tanks. Fifty survivors in the cratered front lines, and 150 forming up in the rear. Stalin had 900 tanks of his own. Even without Kharkov and its strategic manganese, Stalin could gloat with certainty at the ultimate victory of Bolshevism over European civilization. He would dictate terms to the capitalists at Versailles.

Hitler was well aware of Stalin's plans, infact his daily routine and breakfast habits were the subject of gossip at the Fuhrer Headquarters, located during the time of this battle in an armored train hidden in a tunnel. Hitler had finally relented to the begging of his Danish Nazi partners in Fascism, to unleash the huge contingent of Danish SS troops. This fearsome formation was called the Viking Division.

The Viking Division was, on paper, a standard three regiment, six battalion infantry formation. For political reasons, the Viking was overstrength by three battalions. Hitler had added redoubt to outwork by attaching two tank battalions and an assault gun battalion. Although called a division, the Viking was corps-level in strength.

Stalin's first inkling that Hitler was attacking, again, was when the phone lines to Zygmal went dead. That was the morning of April 11, 1943. By afternoon, a reconaissance plane, sent from Stalin's personal air force reconaissance regiment, reported that the city of Zygmal appeared to be on fire, with German motorized columns moving across three freshly laid bridges across the river Pelst. Moscow was in danger!

The smell of the smoke, the burning straw roofs and rubber tires, reached Moscow after three days. Stalin ordered the three hundred tanks of the Fifty-Second Army directly into the path of the advancing Fascists. The Fascists would be outnumbered two to one in tanks, Stalin thought. Maybe he went to bed early, or left the conference before Beria could tell him about all the German heavy flak artillery and multiple rocket launchers. The Fifty-Second Army lasted five days, three of them attacking the Danish Fascists of the Viking Division. The last two days were spent being chased in the scruby forests by German ski troops using hunting dogs. The commander of the Fifty-Second saved his wife and children from the firing squad by shooting himself with his drivers pistol.

Casualties were heavy. A quarter of the Viking Division was in hospital with a diverse array of bullet wounds and artillery fragmentation injury. One in ten were dead. Most of the tanks, trucks, and tracked vehicles were broken down along the path of the battlefield. Hitler called an end for the offensive, and turned his attention to a tempting salient that had been created, centered around a city called Kursk.

I, Fenris Badwulf, wrote this.

ENGLISH PIG DOGS!

‘Revenge is a dish best served cold’ is the new motto of France as 201 years (and 3 months) after the Battle of Trafalgar the French have meted out revenge on their hated Island enemy, England.

The French, long bitter and seething with rage over the ass whooping they received at Trafalgar, have launched a chemical warfare attack on the south-west costal area of England. According to the MSM reports here and here the French crew, of a ship with the very Italian sounding name MSC Napoli, “deliberately run aground close to Sidmouth, 165 miles southwest of London. French officials said that of the 41,700 tons of merchandise in the ship's 2,400 containers, 1,700 tons were considered dangerous, including battery acid, as well as explosive and flammable material.”

You can almost hear the French in their faux-Gaul accent yelling Tora, Tora, Tora as they ran their toxic vessel of death into the English shore. Rumours persist that the French are also jealous of English cuisine. This rumour has not been confirmed.

Watch out Vietnam, I’ve got a feeling your next.


I, Admiral Suvorov, posted this

The War

Early March 1943. It sure looked bad for Adolph Hitler and everything he stood for. But he had an Ace up his sleeve: The First SS Panzer Korps...

Doctor Paul Hausser was a mathematics genius who excelled at chess and crossword puzzles. It was his tactical plan that made the wheels roll and the jackboots click in the Nazi War Machines latest frontal offensive. Like all classic German frontal offensives, it was a susprise. It came at the Russians out of the snow. Stalin was drunk with victory, fresh from the smoking battlefield of Stalingrad. To Stalin and the Party boys, well, things looked good. They just did not look deep enough into the storm sweeping from the Polish Plains. A fresh fifty thousand men, all told. Fresh and well fed. With a new generation of German secret weapons, plenty of ammunition, and an unbreakable radio code for communications.

Hausser's plan of attack was based on the 1915 autumn counter-offensive at Verdun. The overconfident Russians would be lured into a prepared zone of death. Stalin, like most everybody, thought that his T-34 tanks were invincible. They had been for the last six months, anyway; since Stalingrad. Two hundred tanks, the victors of Stalingrad, were assembling at Kharkov. They would attack soon, in March. Hausser was waiting for them in the snowy hills and creek beds of the Central Ukraine.

Pakfront was the name of the new tactic. All of the artillery on a section of front were controlled by one officer: an artillery officer. In three days, the SS divisions Liebstandarte and Das Reich littered the suburbs of Kharkov with five hundred burning wrecks. They were ghastly to behold, and stank. Charred corpses (usually five, the size of the crew) made stains around the sooty wreckage. Once the Russian tanks were gone, the hiding infantry was easy meat for the Stormtroopers with their heavy, automatic weapons.

A week into the battle, Hausser got reinforcements: another SS division. This one was worse than the first two. The Germans themselves called it the Division of Death. Accompanying Death were five battalions of this new fangled rocket artillery. Concentrated along a ten kilometer front one winters day, every Russian position to a depth of seven kilometers was annihiliated. Only one Russian in ten survived the attack. They were usually burned and raving. Into the bar-b-que of Russian positions roared the Kamphgruppen of three SS divisions. There were no Russians left to retreat. The next city was two hundred miles away. Hausser returned to put the city of Kharkov to the sack. Stalin had sixty-three staff officers shot at breakfast.

In Kharkov, the truimphant Fascists found huge supply dumps of fuel, ammunition, and food. There were two hundred thousand captured slaves, freed from slavery to Communism, and now slaves of the Fuhrer's military lusts. They prepared fresh fortifications to protect another fresh wave of weapons and warriors that Hitler had forged in his underground factories. The city was a center of heavy industry, and Hausser and his SS could re-work his arsenal into more fearsome weapons. Armor slab was handed out like candy. Captured tanks were made into ammunition carriers. Evil machines that threw grenades were forged and attached to tanks by cunning veterans. Deserters rallied around Nazi banners, and shouted Sieg Heil with drunken voices. Twenty thousand German prisoners of war regained their freedom. They were vengeful. Moscow was three hundred miles of mud away.

So much for March, 1943.

I, Fenris Badwulf, wrote this.