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First, I think Matilda is a strange name for a tank. It should be reserved for girls with mental powers.

Second, I think MacArthur could retire and head back to West Point to oversee the school. He can rant...I mean...teach the next generation.

Third, I vote for Landon. Spain is clearly in the lead, but I stubbornly refuse to change my vote.

Fourth, I see I am not the only one who has noticed Brando's odd cameo.
 
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Unfortunately I missed the whole McArthur fracas but I see no need to rake over old coals.

+1 to tractors and the next update in 3 posts time.
 
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Chief Ragusa said:
MacArthur's brilliant campaign liberated Korea from communsm, until the Communist Chinese intervened. A truce was declared after the pre-N Korea invasion border was restored. Any hope for victory was removed with the exit of MacArthur.


Sigh. As much as I dislike Ike candour urges me to acknowledge that it was Truman who made the policy mistakes.
Another vote for tractors.
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I thought it was Ridgway who saved the day...not that its really relevant, haha

+1 spain or us politics, either or is fine for me
 
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Last post before the update... maybe... :)

+1 Republican Spain.

Dury.
 
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.... or not :(

Spain please. :) And what is it about MacArthur that always gets the discussion so over-heated? Did he run over people's dogs in his spare time?

Oh, and Nathan Madien - it was named after "Matilda the Comical Duck" which was apparently a popular cartoon in '30s Britain. Someone looked at the A11 and saw a resemblance...
 
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It was because on the A9 the tank wobbled when the main gun was attached. - Source below.

http://ahmednagar.nic.in/html_docs/..%5Chtml_docs%5Ctank_museum.htm said:
Indeed, when the main gun was placed at the top in the British A9 models, the tank was wobbly enough to be nicknamed Matilda, after the comical duck.
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Ugh! Not another page for the presidentialists to try to usurp the rightful succession of tractors. Don't make me spa... meaningfully comment in another 17 posts to get a new page.

+1 Tractors (whether Spanish or otherwise)
 
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+1 Republican Spain (with or without tractors used as primative tanks... ;))

No Australian dog was harmed during the command of MacArthur but I have no doubt there would have been more Australian troops alive in 1945 if he had retired in 1932 and never been seen again...

Dury.
 
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+1 for an update featuring MacArthur riding a British made tractor along the road to Catalina.. wait what?
 
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By sowing the seeds (oh what an agriculture pun!) of confusion amongst the other voters, victory for tractors will be assured.
 
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Pancho Villa!

:rolleyes:

C'mon Pip...we know you want to tell us all about US politics and how they are growing more and more isolationist...

+1 US Politics...

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Sir Humphrey said:
By sowing the seeds (oh what an agriculture pun!) of confusion amongst the other voters, victory for tractors will be assured.
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That is a dastardly act, sir.

I like it. :D
 
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Tractor on tractor armoured warfare Manga in Spain with American subtitles

+1 Spain!
 
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Consider this two votes:

One for Spain
and
Another for TRACTORS.

No American isolation stuff FOR NOW, we wants our farming goods.

And as for the MacArthur gig, does anyone WANT to ask what would have happened with the Philippines 1935-1945 and Pacific Campaign 1941-1945 had he not been around? I think that question deserves as much of an answer as his oft-maligned and admittedly questionable decisions in Korea, he was never good at geopolitics, but was decent enough on a tactical/strategic scale IMO.
 
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Ciryandor said:
And as for the MacArthur gig, does anyone WANT to ask what would have happened with the Philippines 1935-1945 and Pacific Campaign 1941-1945 had he not been around? I think that question deserves as much of an answer as his oft-maligned and admittedly questionable decisions in Korea, he was never good at geopolitics, but was decent enough on a tactical/strategic scale IMO.
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Apart from "I will return..." what was the strategic reason for America invading the Phillipines?

In terms of a war winning strategy it was a sideshow, much as New Guinea and Burma were.
 
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