Posted on 07/22/2016 7:55:45 PM PDT by GingisK
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I’m not hip. Who is Rommel?
Never mind. I know who he is. And here I thought it was some new designer stuff sold at WM.
Captain Steubing, is that you?
Bill, sorry I stole your photo... as it was... Well I needed a picture for Facebook and my High School Re-union.
Why do people need to be so judgemental? I thought I looked pretty good but hey this looked so much better! (so I borrowed it) hope they aren’t disappointed when I show up on person. Maroon and Gold was and always be our High School colors but Pink with a Pink Chiffon lace is what I am going with.
I was looking for a matching parasol but do you think they had a thing? Young people today just don’t know how to accessorize...
I smell a gigantic Rick Roll.
Erwin Rommel. Afrika Korps tank Field Marshal for the WW2 NAZI war machine. Met his match with Patton and was finally driven out of North Africa by the Allies. He was forced to commit suicide after being implicated in the failed assassination of Hitler in July 1944.
Sorry
Is that Erwin Rommel or Reggie Love?
A google for erwin rommel walmart yields nichts relevant.
If Rommel was on our side with our leadership and equipment and Patton was on their side, would the results have been different?
IMO Rommel is one of the most respected figures of the Nazi era. He was a great military leader, and above all, a German first. He apparently loved his country enough to risk his life in the attempt to do away with the most hated person of the Nazi era.
I wonder if such leaders exist in our armed forces. If Hitlery wins and goes on a rampage that makes obama look like a choir boy, what will our military leaders do?
Will they do something right away? Wait until total civil unrest? Wait until we are invaded by a another country? Or just fall in line?
I am not a historian. There are Freepers who would know much better than I the subtleties between Rommel and Patton. I do know that Patton was a brilliant leader and it took a Patton to roll through Africa and Europe and by his actions save Allied lives and bring the war closer to an end.
I always pictured you as taller than that.
“Met his match with Patton...” Patton never faced Rommel. Rommel left Africa within days of Patton’s assuming command after Kasserine, leaving von Arnim in command. In Europe, Rommel was wounded July 17th, 1944 and never returned to field command. Patton’s break out during Operation Cobra began after that date. Patton was a competent, aggressive mobile warfare commander, the Germans boasted dozens of such men (the Soviets as well) having fought titanic battles in the East dwarfing anything seen in the West. The Bulge would have made up only a sector in some of those battles; Kursk or Korsun for example. Both men were built up in the popular imagination by the propaganda arts as a prop to army and home front morale. Patton was probably rarer for his talents in the American Army than Rommel in his, the Americans having started with a smaller force with much less experience.
Good post. The vast size of the Eastern Front before we ever entered the war often gets overlooked here in the US.
Thanks.
I do need to explore more now that the heat is keeping me inside and cool for the weekend.
Rommel was the German Field Marshall in WWII known as "The Desert Fox". I was searching for him when the auto-generated nonsense advertisement for Walmart popped up. Only readers of Gary Larson cartoons would understand the possible imagery of the phrase "Erwin Rommel at Walmart".
Look them both up.
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