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Post by Sephiroth on Feb 25, 2023 9:12:23 GMT -5
This topic came up in conversation and it tickled my fancy as a history buff. I predicted DeGaulle, much to the surprise of others; Roosevelt and Churchill may have been tough as nails but they were both already old, one of them couldn’t walk, and the other spent most of his time shlitzed-not advantageous in a fisticuffs. Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin may have been vicious as could be and had combat experience but all three of them were also old and hardly impressive physical specimens even in their youth. Compared to the rest, DeGaulle was young, fit, and in good health so I’d give the advantage for him. Wildcards: the emperor of Japan was a pencil neck geek, I doubt he’d last long abs Tojo was much more in the drivers seat in terms of Japan’s strategy and even though Tojo was a trained soldier he was also on the older end and not exactly a towering colossus either. China Kai Shek was also a scrawny twerp, his wife would stand a better chance in an all out melee.
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Post by salz4life on Feb 25, 2023 9:25:02 GMT -5
I mean, FDR was confined to a wheelchair, so unfortunately he is probably at a huge disadvantage.... unless he has Professor X's powers???
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Feb 26, 2023 0:18:15 GMT -5
That guy that was still fighting WW2 in the 70’s? Him.
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Feb 26, 2023 6:38:59 GMT -5
Age and health isn’t necessarily a factor. Theodore Roosevelt III (known as Teddy Jr. despite that actually being the legal name of his father, the former US president) was old and dying in WW2. He still led the Normandy Invasion force in person, storming the beach with the grunts and saving countless Allied lives by taking charge and ensuring the chaos of D-Day did not bog down troop movements.
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Post by Hurbster on Feb 26, 2023 7:04:11 GMT -5
Age and health isn’t necessarily a factor. Theodore Roosevelt III (known as Teddy Jr. despite that actually being the legal name of his father, the former US president) was old and dying in WW2. He still led the Normandy Invasion force in person, storming the beach with the grunts and saving countless Allied lives by taking charge and ensuring the chaos of D-Day did not bog down troop movements. He also won the Battle of Britain by giving Germany a funny look. |
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Feb 26, 2023 8:55:17 GMT -5
Age and health isn’t necessarily a factor. Theodore Roosevelt III (known as Teddy Jr. despite that actually being the legal name of his father, the former US president) was old and dying in WW2. He still led the Normandy Invasion force in person, storming the beach with the grunts and saving countless Allied lives by taking charge and ensuring the chaos of D-Day did not bog down troop movements. He also won the Battle of Britain by giving Germany a funny look. Seriously, he was just as hardcore as his dad, if not more so. As I mentioned, his heart was giving out on him (he died a month after D-Day) and he was so affected by arthritis that he was forced to walk with a cane. Read that last part again. That BAMF was the first man off his landing craft, during the first wave at Utah Beach, despite the fact that he had to do so with a damned cane. He flat out ignored the Germans’ gunfire and shelling, and met every landing craft and redirected them to new objectives since most craft drifted off course. He redrew the invasion plans on the fly because circumstances required it, and did it standing in the open as the shelling frequently caused clumps of sand and soil to rain down on him. As one GI later remarked, “if the general was standing there calm and completely unaffected by the conditions, it must not be that bad. He gave me the courage I needed.” Despite the fact that he clashed so much with Roosevelt that he tried to get him kicked out of the armed forces, Patton himself was proud to serve as a pallbearer for Teddy Jr. |
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Post by Zombie Mod on Feb 26, 2023 9:27:18 GMT -5
Churchill would have had aq stand in for him and would probably have picked Mad Jack |
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Feb 26, 2023 13:58:26 GMT -5
My favorite quip attributed to Churchill was at a party event where a snooty socialite who did not care for Churchill or his politics allegedly told him that if he were her husband, she’d put arsenic in his morning tea.
His supposed response? “Madam, if I were your husband I would drink that tea.”
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Post by Cyno on Feb 26, 2023 15:28:16 GMT -5
De Gaulle was a badass. And never underestimate a Roosevelt. Even FDR had some spunk in him despite being ravaged by polio.
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Post by Mozenrath on Feb 27, 2023 8:46:28 GMT -5
Probably De Gaulle, for the aforementioned age reasons.
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