>most decorated unit in WWII virtually unknown to Americans

>>31723816

define "most decorated"

Every unit was "most decorated", depending on the definition you're using

>>31723830

by the literal definition of most decorated

>>31723816

What the fuck is wrong with their faces

>>31724063

Then probably the Soviet Army as a whole was the most decorated unit of WWII

Soviets awarded EVERY soldier a full rack of medal just for serving and seeing as they had the most soldiers out of all the armies, that would make them the most decorated.

>>31724184
Going to go with its fucking cold and they had to take a bullshit picture for $200 alex

>>31724184
Maybe they were kinda feeling...not so fresh...from fighting a war, and stuff?

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>>31724184
They are Asian?

>>31723816
>americans
>even deserving recognition
You fucks literally did nothing to win the war, Russia would've solved the war by themselves.

>>31724305
Fuck off nigger.

>>31724288

Damn, I feel so sorry for them. Really does a number on you, huh?

>>31723816
What unit is this?

>>31724305
>You fucks literally did nothing to win the war

Yeah, sending aid for the majority of the war sure didn't do anything. It's not like we were literally shoveling supplies down Britain's throat when they were getting Blitzkrieged to fuck and back.

Nah lets just focus on how Russia killed a lot of Nazi's because they just happened to be in the immediate vicinity of the war and got directly involved when blood spilled directly on their own land. Let's also ignore how despite us participating in the European front, we almost single-handedly won the Pacific front.

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>>31724305
I'm gonna give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're only pretending to be retarded.

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>>31724389
Not to mention how the Russians couldn't give all their troops rifles.

>>31724351
422nd Infantry Regiment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/442nd_Infantry_Regiment_(United_States)

>all the slavboos being salty that their shiny pieces of tin aren't as cool as they think

>>31724389
Yeah, because fighting over some shithole Islands and nuking a shitty nation into submission is equal to fighting most of the nazi army.

>>31724351

442nd Infantry Regiment--composed entirely of Japanese-Americans that had previously been interned due to their ethnicity. It was the most-decorated unit of its size.

>>31724203
Medals were the only thing not rationed in the Soviet Union.

>>31724445
> Americans where such tryhards not even sending men to their death for no reason.

>>31724445
Wearing us boots and driving us trucks.

>>31724475
>hey we'd rather be proud to be the only nation to drop nukes on "military" targets that "just" happened to be in major population centers.

>>31724508
> How to defeat an enemy that values honor above all else and would choose to die than surrender.
> Grant them death.

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>>31723816
>virtually unknown to Americans
Not unless you're a shit-eating Millenial fuckstick with zero institutional memory. Every generation before yours knows and reveres the Go For Broke Battalion.

>>31724203
To be fair I would want a rack of medals too after being conscripted and given a fifty year old bolt action rifle
>With no ammo

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>>31723816
Its the 442nd Infantry Regiment.
they were made up of all japs from internment camps fighting to prove that they were Americans and deserved respect.
Legit heroes all of them, based gooks.

>>31724305
Studebaker truck.


USA 1 RU 0

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>>31724528
>War is the remedy our enemies have chosen. Other simple remedies were within their choice. Yon know it and they know it, but they wanted war, and I say let us give them all they want

Based Sherman knew.

>>31724576
was the picture intended to make me read that in jc denton voice? cause I read that in jc denton voice.

>>31724775
Holy shit glad I'm not the only one
>legit heroes...all of them....based gooks

pretty sure you can't NOT read that in a JC denton voice.

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>>31724203
To be fair senpai, it's not like americans don't have retarded medals or a retarded amount of them.
And the soviets actually fought 80% of the germans for about 4 years while the americans fought 20% of the Germans with the help of the british for less than 1 year. And then some italians + a few germans in the desert.

>>31724305

Russia wouldn't even have TANKS beyond old FT-17s and Mk. IVs if we didn't give them our factory equipment and suspension technologies.

Read a book, nigger.

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>>31723816
>Not knowing the 442nd
>Not knowing Inouye

>>31725091
Yeah. And the Soviets pussy footed in the East, being all chummy chummy and not declaring war on Japs because Vatniks can't have another front opening. Oh, guess who was keeping the Japs busy.

>>31725179

>thread about the 442nd
>thread devolves into people arguing about Russia

>>31725195
Being a Nipnong-Chingchong is suffering.

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>>31725190

>>31724775

I feel less autistic knowing that I wasn't the only one.

>>31725091
1) Russia and German had secret prearrangement to split up the countries in between. They knew they were going to fighting soon.
2) Russia reliance on Germans fighting two front war saved them.
3) Logistical and technical aid made a tremendous effect on Russian combat forces.
4) Both Germans and Russians were fighting a religious/ideological kill them all war, the Western front was not fought with the same ferocity.
The US and Commonwealth fought a two front war in the Pacific and in Europe, Russia had a single front war.

Medals are a cheap way to honor soldiers who do what the command structure wants. Some Soviet units got medals for pretty inane things.
Russia before the war was behind in technology and in military skills. The purges of the officers made many Russians officers unprofessional and unskilled. Anything to promote needed behavior is good.

>>31724389
Yeah, right? Who the hell cares if that train station over in Düsseldorf is about to send a panzer division to the front? The Soviets fight those all the time and nothing bad ever happens when your enemy gets resupplied and reinforced.

Besides, the enigma machine is overrated. Who cares about knowing your enemies movements when you got the T34!

>>31724430
nice meme

>>31724184
It was nippy weather.

>>31724445
Yeah, who cares if the US dominated a third of the earth's surface and Crossed entire oceans to do so.

The Germans placed a couple of anti-tank ditches on the road to Vostok, what an unformidable terrain for which the Soviets must advance over!

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>>31725873
nice

>>31724430
It's not a meme, it's a fact. Early in the war a russian concript may have only been issued a blanket. They weren't even fed. That's why they were like a swarm of locusts stripping the countryside . There were attacks by up to five waves against german positions, and the last two waves had no issued weapons. That's why russian weapons are expected to function suchshitty conditions and work, the one you pick up off a dead comrade may be the only one you have. You can't really conceive what it was like, the Germans couldn't even believe it when the came up against it.

>>31723816
My great uncle was in that regiment, never heard many stories since I never really met him but I was told he fought in italy

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>>31723816

>As the men of the 442nd went deeper and deeper they became more hesitant, until reaching the point where they would not move from behind a tree or come out of a foxhole. However, this all changed in an instant. The men of Companies I and K of 3rd Battalion had their backs against the wall, but as each one saw another rise to attack, then another also rose. Then every Nisei charged the Germans screaming, and many screaming "Banzai!"[12]:83 Through gunfire, artillery shells, and fragments from trees, and Nisei going down one after another, they charged.

I can only imagine the level of confusion among the Germans when they experienced a Banzai charge

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>>31728464
>I knew it, its 1914 all over again

>>31724203
>Soviets awarded EVERY soldier a full rack of medal just for serving
you sure you aren't talking about today's US Military?
>you enlisted, have two medals
>you didn't get a DUI this weekend, have a NAM

>>31724305
Enjoy a completely communist Europe post war the faggot. If America wasn't there to push back the ruskies communism would have been in stated in every country they could claim into the land grab.

>>31729860
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recruiting_Service_Ribbon

>>31729867
If only, Then we wouldn't have to experience this disgusting american influence on everything.

>>31724305
admittedly america's contributions in battle were less than stellar till the end of the war but there's this thing called 'Lend Lease' it pretty much kept the logistical side of things going for everyone else.

America's mightiest weapon in the war was factories.

>>31725091
a share amount of pattons medals, and definitely the most flashy ones, were awarded by foreign nations

>>31725377
>Russia before the war was behind technologically
yes and no. Half of the reason WW1 kicked off was because Germany wanted to keep russia from becoming a super power and realized that they were getting a decent railway network in place. If that railway network was completed Russia would have the full resources of her vast tracts of land at her disposal and would quickly become an industrial juggernaught.

She wasn't leading the pack or anything but she wasn't as far back as people like to think. The perception of backwater comes from degradation caused by the braindrain of the communist revolution (kill all the farmers, yeah THAT'S not gonna have negative consequences down the line. How fucking DARE those farmers expect a living wage for providing the country with food!) and the general disrepair caused when any revolution kicks off.

nevermind the fact that they HAD factories and mines and modern industrial capacity they just didn't have ENOUGH because the Communist Party was so obsessed with reordering things they forgot how fucking good at paying the bills and planning ahead all the land lords were.

>>31729860
>someone's salty about my rack

I also got one or two for going to korea (I'll have to check).

but I never got a "who's a good boy, youre a good boy" anything...ever.... I was promised comp days, they lied just to make us feel better about spending a weekend cleaning up the battalion commanders fuck up.

>the life of a crewcheif.

>>31725377
>Russia had a single front war.
Confirmed for moron.

>>31724467
BS, actually. Most of SU awards were not only medals but also sufficient amount of money (same with confirmed kills of planes and tanks, btw). And because of that it, they were under very strict control of NKVD and party. Most clear vision of this you can get from looking into Soviet airforce. To receive confirmed kill into your combat score you needed much more info than in other countries. And yes, some of them were actually rationed.

>>31730150
Finland doesn't exist.

>>31725091
>soviets actually fought 80%
>americans fought 20%
gotta call bullshit on that myth.

>>31730754
I guess 20% is a pretty high number considering they only came in so late.

>>31730709
you are a figment of my imagination

>>31724542
>a story told by a guy who was the great-nephew of one of the actual veterans
>widely known
Yeah, no it's not.

>Phil blames libruls for people not knowing
Gotta get that shitposting quota in too, eh?

>everyone reveres them
Did your hands burst into flame while typing that you revered a non-white just now?

>>31730071
The Communists hardly held back progress in Russia, a country that had only abolished fucking SERFDOM like 30 years prior to the revolution. The pace of progress in the country was controlled by the nobility, who basically owned everything as a wealthy middle-class never developed as fully in Russia as it did in the rest of Europe, and the nobility did not like progress.

>they forgot how fucking good at paying the bills and planning ahead all the land lords were.
Yes, top-down dictatorial control of an operation can maximize efficiency in many ways.

>>31730754
It's actually a misquote. The figure he's thinking of was actually citing the fact that 80% of German casualties were sustained on the Eastern front.

>>31725377
>Russia before the war was behind in technology
What is SVT/T34/KV/BM13

>>31724305
>tooedgy.gif.jpg.com.exe

>>31724214
One can only be awarded one cold photograph ribbon per qualifying period as prescribed by AR600-8-22. Multiple awards will be denoted by a bronze camera device for each period of service.

>>31725227

Not really, they were pretty cool dudes, but going around shoving it in peoples faces saying we wuz ____ just makes us look like blacks

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>>31723816
100th Infantry Division, 442nd Regiment, these guys went fucking hard

>9,486 Purle Hearrs
>8 Presidential Unit Citations
>21 Medals of Honor
>Mr. Miyagi

Go for Broke!

>>31731604
SVT and T-34 began after WWII started, the KV was a disaster and the BM13 was inferior to Nebelwerfer

>>31731860
>SVT and T-34 began after WWII started
depends on one's POV, to Soviets WWII started in June 1941, also SVT-40 is just an improved version of SVT-38, which certainly was in production before 1939.

>>31731860
>BM13 was inferior to the nebelwerfer
in which way?

>>31724561
or after fighting because your families were hostages in a concentration camp...

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>>31725091

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>>31733452

>>31725179
>puts his medical schooling on hold to fight for his country
>battlefield commission
>charging a fortified position
>get his fucking ARM shot off by a rifle grenade while prepping to throw his
>already shot in the fucking stomach
>pries the grenade from his severed arm and lobs it into the enemy bunker
>guns down the last of the enemies with a one-handed tommy gun burst
>gets shot in the leg by a sniper and passes out
>wakes up to see his men worried about him
>orders them back to their positions
>"nobody called off the war!"

Holy fuck this guy was a hard motherfucker

>>31724673
Sherman was right, but he sure had a lot of contempt for what were supposedly fellow citizens

>>31729924
Good luck with that, then the whole of Europe would have bee destitute and the cold war would have warmed up real quick due to the radiation

>>31734304
I love altenative history presented as fact.

>>31723816
>make post criticizing americans for not knowing something obscure
>doesnt tell them what it is

>>31728654
>ive always had a soft spot for debussy
>spot for debussy
>bussy
They knew all along.

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>>31734816

>a picture of what is clearly a segregated Japanese unit
>can't look it up himself

>>31726966
yeah
too bad Enemy at the Gates put that shit into the movie
by Stalingrad, morale was relatively high and supply was decent to good

>>31724542
ah, another post from Phil with a political bent
wonder when we'll actually see a /k/ related post

>>31733452
>>31733643
>showing disrespect to Patton by splicing a chicken-hawk shyster's face with hisown

>>31734017
All that they deserved.

>>31725139
>An oft-quoted statement by First Vice-Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars Nikolai Voznesensky summed up the standard line that Allied aid represented “only 4 percent” of Soviet production for the entire war. Lacking any detailed information to the contrary, Western authors generally agreed that even if Lend-Lease was important from 1943 on, as quantities of aid dramatically increased, the aid was far too little and late to make a difference in the decisive battles of 1941–1942.

I really think it helped the bongs and the american intervention in europe helped push back the communism but nigga....please.

>>31738598

He's talking about the fact that every successful Russian tank until either the T-54 or T-44 used an American designed suspension.

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>>31734017
>fellow citizens
Looks like you misspelled "traitors" there, anon.

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>>31738630
KV series, IS series, and a few light T-tanks used torsion bar suspensions though.

>>31738793

>KV series, IS series
>successful

>>31739337
IS-2's were some of the only Russian tanks that could go toe to toe with the German big cats.
>inb4 muh T-34
The t34's armor as barley better than a shermans its only redeeming factors were its mobility and ease of production.

>>31739395
>IS-2's were some of the only Russian tanks that could go toe to toe with the German big cats.

Except they couldn't, a Tiger can penetrate an IS-2 almost anywhere it hits.

>The t34's armor as barley better than a shermans its only redeeming factors were its mobility and ease of production.

The T-34's armor is actually inferior to a Sherman's. This is irrelevant because the armor of neither tank is likely to withstand an 88mm gun.

The same applies to the Tiger, an 85mm or 122mm are both going to penetrate it in most places. In the end you end up with a much larger tank with little improvement and several fundamental flaws.

>>31731569
not gonna say the communists didn't have good reason to rebel but they pretty much destroyed their own agricultural industry with that stunt. There's enacting justice and then there's destroying the system that creates your food.

>>31739482
The T-34 is superior, just because it influenced EVERY tank after its induction. The russians basically invented sloped armor, hence why the Panther and Tiger II copied their desgin.

Also
>sherman
>good for anything outside target practice
>lol lets use highly flammable gasoline in our tanks

>>31724305
kek

>>31723816
they also had the most deaths and purple harts

the usa back then was racist and didn't want a jap unit to be loved

the jews and white business men really pushed for anti jap shit cos they were being to successful

Don't forget durring and after ww2 japs were interned and hated cos of the pearl harbour incident and usa knowing a bunch of japs helped them would have created a cognative disadence and anger

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>>31738741
>Shermanfags still in charge of being the biggest hypocrites since 1864
It's pottery.

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>>31725873
fuck

>>31724305
Atlest the US wanted to grind up their own goys by sending them in.

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where da WW1 gambes at???

>>31724452

It was not composed entirely of Japanese Americans fucking weeboo. There were white officers and NCOs. The Commander was white Col. Virgil Miller.

>>31742306
Please explain, dixie. And remember, a smug anime image does not constitute and argument.

>>31724305
>Russia would've solved the war by themselves.

Top kek

>>31734984
>posting single picture as reference for obscure fact
>expecting anyone to reverse image search it to know what it is
>criticizing people for not knowing it
>not just posting a link or any more description
>being this lame

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>>31734984

>>31744054
>meming at "traitors"
>when all of you amerishits are the decedents of treasonous men
>when all you amerishits talk about going against the Government when they cum fer yer guns

If you worship George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison.etc. but for some reason like the burning women and children under Sherman over "treason". You're one of the biggest hypocrites around.

>>31739337
They were successful, your tears and butthurt doesn't quench the fact in anyway.

>>31745874
go be a salty limey somewhere else

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>>31741939
>The russians basically invented sloped armor,
oh for fucks sake here we go

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>>31741939
If you've actually read anything about either of the two tanks you've just mentioned you'd know both tanks were excellent. In fact the Sherman was used by the US army, the Brits, the Red army, and the Wehrmacht (among others) and they all found the vehicle to be excellent. You seem to think that the Sherman's use of gasoline was in anyway a problem, but in practice the tanks were among the safest serving in any army, in fact the Germans made sure to set Shermans on fire so they'd be more difficult to recover and this often took many successful, penetrating hits to accomplish (mind you these tanks were abandoned). Also the M4A2 and M4A6 models used diesel.

That and you seem to believe that the Soviets "discovered" sloped armor even though it existed on tanks preceding the T-34. If anyone says that either the T-34 or Sherman were terrible designs they are, frankly, ignorant or lying.

>>31738741
Hating the government sounds very American though

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My grandpa was one of them

>>31723816
Your to young to remember Mr Miagi.

>>31724305
The holocaust would have almost been worth it if hitler could have colonized Russia.

>>31726966
>>31736771
Soviet equipped soldiers didn't outnumber German forces until very late in the war, though they were able to replace their losses easily.

My guess is equipment shortages.

>>31725179

>be me, Dan Inouye
>still vote for gun control

fucking japs

>>31725091
You know a lot of those medals were from the First World War. Also France likes to give Americans medals!

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>>31724305

>>31742913
I see we triggered the stormfags today.

>>31724203
No. They only gave the medals to the survivors.
hint: there weren't many