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Originally Posted by steeljack
Can hardly blame the Aussies being upset , if I remember correctly this (the Dardenelles campaign/fiasco) was one of Churchills ideas , think this was the reason he was sacked from the Admiralty/Cabinet  |
There was nowt wrong with the Dardanells idea; as a way of breaking the stalemate on the Western Front it was the best move until the tactical applications of coordinated tank/airpower/artillary of 1918. If Churchill has to be criticised over Turkey, then the criticism should lie in his decision to sieze the two Turkish warships lying in British ship yards which begat Turkey's entry into WW1.
Forget the whingeing antipodeans; if they, togeather with the Royal Navy, the old trawler captains, and some battalions of the British army had been prepared to advance against the enemy as much as some of their colleagues in France & Belgium had been in 1916/17, then the war would have been over far earlier, and the rest as they say, would be history - minus Hitler