It's difficult to imagine, because of the way the war in Western Europe was fought (generally less brutal than in the East), but the Brits planned to meet an invasion with Eastern Front levels of brutality.
Firstly, that myth has been debunked so often I'm not even going to respond to it, secondly, if you look at some of the weapons the Home Guard was issued with, it's not that far off.
Legitimate_First | 8 hours ago
It's difficult to imagine, because of the way the war in Western Europe was fought (generally less brutal than in the East), but the Brits planned to meet an invasion with Eastern Front levels of brutality.
ItchySnitch | 33 minutes ago
So sending human waves of farmers with pitchforks against machine guns?
Legitimate_First | 28 minutes ago
Firstly, that myth has been debunked so often I'm not even going to respond to it, secondly, if you look at some of the weapons the Home Guard was issued with, it's not that far off.
[OP] IvyGold | 14 hours ago
Submission statement: a fascinating story about what wound up being a footnote to history, but as always, they had no way of knowing that at the time.
Telecom_VoIP_Fan | 4 hours ago
Thanks for sharing this. I thought I knew the history of the UK in WW2 very well, but I had never heard of this unit before.