Fight Them On The Beaches

[madiba]

WE SHALL fight them on the beaches, we shall fight them in the fields and on the landing grounds, said Churchill in 1939. Unusual use of the word 'we'. I was on Omaha Beach having my leg shot off and I can't remember seeing Winnie anywhere. Perhaps I missed the bit where he said "We shall fight them 50 feet underground in a reinforced concrete bunker."

[ludwig]

I believe Churchill actually did want to go ashore as part of the D-Day landings. They had to tell him not to be stupid.

[AB Editor]

It is a perfect speech:



The most often quoted part ignores much of the tragic nature of it.

[Mosaic]

Seadogg - my father in law was on Sword Beach, D1 - for about 20 mins before being hit and ambulance-shipped off.
Hmmm - Omaha Beach - Us sector. FDR was where exactly when his men were being decimated?
Not a criticism madiba, just a parallel suggestion.

[Zeuhl]

I'm sure Winnie meant well, especially if he wrote the speech past 10.00am when he'd be well into the brandy.

[chrissa1]

I have never read such a stupid post in all my years on AB.

[Mosaic]

Oh steady on Chrissa - even the 'can I get into the US with my recent conviction for armed robbery' ones?

[Baldric]

http://wiki.answers.c..._Alan_Turing_arrested



because he was a criminal at the time j-t-p

[Mosaic]

This would be unlike the very similar 'criminal' General Auchinleck, with his liking for Moroccan boys, eh Baldric?

[chrissa1]

Oh, I get it now. If you'd been on Omaha Beach madiba, you'd be pushing 90 by now.

[jake-the-peg]

I know he was a "criminal" - he also probably saved hundreds of thousands of lives

I find it hard to believe that Churchill as Prime Minister at the time was unaware of this

It would have been the easiest thing in the world for him to have intervened and sent back to academia.

But at the time there was the Philby and McClean business going on

You'd have thought given the old acusations of homosexuality against him Churchill might have been more sympathetic.

http://books.google.c...20accusations&f=false

[jackthehat]

The OP is given to roaming the Topics of Answerbank posting *humorous* threads with only the slimest relevance to the category he is presently in.

He'd be better off sticking to the Joke section.......

[sandyRoe]

After the Gallipoli fiasco didn't Churchill take a commission in a guards regiment and spend some time in France?

[ironmonger]

Walter Mitty is still alive