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Re: ...really, it wasn’t a rifle that won the European war. It was the artillery...

Gadzooks! You mean... Obama didn't win World War Duce and awarded the Nobel peace Prize for doing it????

BTW When the Texas National Guard was federalized in 1940 as the 36th Infantry Divison, my dear old Pappy was in the 132nd Field Artillery Battalion out of Kerens, Texas.

Yet he disagreed with Eisenhower who once said the two pieces of equipment that were most influential in winning the war were the jeep and the C-47. Dad said Ike forgot the "Duce and a half" truck, the LST, the M-1 Garand and M114 155 mm howitzer.

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"I do not have to tell you who won the war. You know, the artillery did."

As a former artilleryman myself, I tend to agree with General Patton.