Player Profile #23 Kharkov.

[Mr Grumpy]

What is your favourite and least favourite aspect of the Blitz website?
My favourite aspect is the civility displayed in the forums ( well at least in the PzC forum which I inhabit most) in these uncivil times. I have not witnessed any flame wars or trolling. This is a credit to the members and to the moderators.

That you Bill, we try to make the forum a pleasure to visit, we are lucky at OpC that most of our members have excellent manners.

And two very important events for Australians: (1) Turning back the Japanese on the Kokoda trail in New Guinea in 1942. The heroic stand by a single Australian militia battalion ( 39 Battalion) was remarkable. (2) The Battle of the Coral Sea in 1942 when the US Navy forced the recall of a Japanese troop convoy en route for Port Moresby New Guinea. If Port Moresby had fallen the perception at the time was that Australia would have been directly threatened. The gratitude felt by many Australians to the US Navy helped to form the basis for a close friendship with the US which persists to this day.

Great to get the view of WW2 events from the Australian POV.