Only 3 rows of top achievements, got it :up:

I hear you, and I agree. There's such a thing as going a tad too far with medals and ribbons, but really I think it's at the disgression and taste of the wearer. Having absolutely zero medals and ribbons to my name (well...aside from the badge to the left of this post :smug:) I can't really say how I'd wear them, but I tend to think of this pic:

http://www.forcefighters.com/public/...n=2460;preview

Ooh, you are mistaken!

Goering wore all these in public:

Middle-ages peasant hunting outfit

Violet kimino

And many others...

And anyway, he pretty much destroyed his country due to his ineptness, so he pretty much was the worst leader ever, apart from Hitler. Though, at least Hitler had some successes!

^strange :hmmm:

Ok so he was just as big of a Peacock as Petraeus. :)

What successes? He lost the war and ruined Germany.

Had me reading past posts did that :)

Regarding Goering and his medals -

1 (One) Goering was the german unit for what a man could carry tin-wise, before collapsing.

To be fair to Der Dicke, he was a WWI ace, not exactly Boelcke or Richtofen territory, and most of his pilots hated him because he was an arrogant stuck up idiot, but as anyone who has played a WWI flight sim knows, 22 kills is still an achievement.

Otherwise though he was a pompous stuck up arrogant idiot who deep sixed any chance the Luftwaffe could have had of victory and sabotaged the Wehrmacht and Kriegsmarines attempts to have the Luftwaffe co-operate with them. Well, except for the 17-20th May 1940 where the Stukas and Hs 123s of VIII. Fliegerkorps worked extremely well alongside Guderians Panzers to blast a path to the coast. This was how the CAS of the Luftwaffe should have worked, good radio links between the ground troops and the air troops, but as Oberleutnant Seidemann put it "never again was such a smoothly functioning system for discussing and planning joint operations achieved".

Yes, but he did conquer Poland, the low countries, France, the Channel Islands, Ukraine, Greece, and many other countries.

He just got an even bigger head, gave stupid orders like 'No retreat', which lost the war.

What I was saying was that when Goering had things almost completely under his command, he lost.

All great men have their weaknesses.

Everything was lost in the end and at a huge cost to mankind.

And, despite all the technological advances that WWII bought about, it was still a massive waste of life :nope:

Not only that, the tracks of World War II are still there, and so for generations :nope:

Exactly :yep:

He once told Adolf Galland whose younger brother had just been KIA that day in an action with P-47s (Galland was reporting the presence of P-47s in German airspace for the first time) That Galland was a liar and that no American aircraft had penetrated German airspace.

Imagine hearing that after you know for a fact that your own brother had just been killed.