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Snipetracker — WWII, Part 3: 1943-45
Published: 2011-09-01 07:27:59 +0000 UTC; Views: 1834; Favourites: 21; Downloads: 0
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Top: A meeting of the Big Three - Joseph Stalin of the USSR, Franklin D. Roosevelt of the USA, and Winston Churchill of Great Britain - is held at the Soviet Embassy in Tehran.Center: A brave Polish soldier guides his donkey near the ruins of Monte Cassino in Italy.
Bottom: American servicemen and women euphorically celebrate V-J Day.
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Like how FDR and Churchill are chatting together friendly - like at Teheran, while Stalin glares by himself at the viewers.
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Nice pic and all, and I don't want to be polemic or what, but... just for the record, to us Italians Monte Cassino is still a rather bad memory, after the Allies bombed it out... rather unnecessarily as it turned out. Too bad that it was done on the request of a thoroughly distinguished and competent officer, whose career is marred only by this particular fact.
Bottom line? Never forget that, other than lives, war also destroys priceless monuments like this one.
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Thank you for your comments. Yes, I included this panel for the very reasons you listed. Monte Cassino deserves to be remembered for the sake of the various armies engaged in one of the toughest actions of the war, and for its loss as an achievement of Western civilization. Most recognize now that the destruction of Monte Cassino was an avoidable cost to pay for victory, and it has come to symbolize the utter waste of war.
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Thanks for the reply; I was afraid my comment had been a little bit too provocative. Now I see that you had already thought in advance when you made this pic.
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Oh, man.. Gotta love the look of Stalin in the first panel. He's like, "What the heck am I doing with these guys? I know I need them to crush those damn Nazis but..." 
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Ah, Monte Cassino...great Batlle. Did you know Polish army has a bear, which helped during this battle?
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Also, I like how you draw the Big Three
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Thank you. That is a good link that you posted about Wojtek. At Monte Cassino, donkeys proved to be more valuable than trucks, and who would have thought that a mascot bear would prove valuable during World War II?
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I love your WWII series so much. Impressive and interesting!
WE WON THE WAR! YAAAAY!!
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I really enjoyed looking at all three parts of this time line
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Thank you. I'm glad that you enjoyed them.
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