Wait, so what are Canadians taught about WWII?

[QUOTE="Mikey132"]

Hmmm are you still in school? or fairly young? When I was in high School we had a very short learning period on WWI and WWII. We only really learned about what Canadians did. It really wouldn't surpries me to hear that many younger Canadians have no idea of how big the war really was. All they hear is we took a boat across the pond and ran at Machine guns...............That's about as much time as the school system put into learning about the wars, sad but true. It's been 11 years since I left High School.

Most of the learning I've done on the Wars came in my 20's, when I did it on my own time.

WhiteKnight77

Here in the US, school textbooks made MacArthur out to be a hero. In actuality he was far from it. He was a self-aggrandizing failure of a leader. If he had done what he was supposed to during the years leading up to the fall of the Philippines, he would have been more prepared for the invasion of the islands. You have to do some reading to really find out.

MacArthur may be overrated, but the U.S. Marines who fought at Iwo Jima and Okinawa are not. God bless them!

[QUOTE="Ninja-Hippo"]I honestly believe without a shadow of a doubt that it is the American account of WW2 which is the most distorted and inaccurate. You'd all be speakin' german if it weren't for us! etc.AFBrat77

It's not April Fool's Day yet my friend :roll: