"Mein liebe Pluskat..."
Courage like that is worth a division of soldiers. Men and women who did these deeds and succeeded or failed deserve our undying gratitude.
"Mein liebe Pluskat..."
People who think history is dull, including most kids today, need to see this kind of story.
This is pulse-pounding, riveting stuff!
I hope Hollywood gives it a better treatment than WindTalkers did for the great story of the Navajo contribution to our WW II win.
My Father’s outfit landed several days after D-Day. They were lucky as the combat engineers suffered 80% casualties, the highest of any group.
I recently learned they were scheduled to land on D-Day but their ship had engine trouble and had to return to port for repairs.
Ha! Obama wasn't even born yet. At least that's what his birth certificate says anyway. Oh wait. . . .
It's beyond scary to imagine D-day if the Germans had moved even one Panzer division and put just a few tanks at each beach (Utah, Normandy, Gold, Juneau and Sword). They actually had available more than one division. It's difficult to imagine the good guys would ever have made it off of those beaches.
Failure vs. cakewalk always proved to me that Hitler was duped.
Great post. Excellent!
I had the pleasure of visiting Normandy Beach and the museum there in 1983. (My wife and I even stayed over at a bed-and-breakfast in St. Lo.) It was an unforgettable, awe-inspiring place to visit. The cemetery nearby was impeccably maintained. The whole place had a quiet to it that was like the quiet that follows two feet of snowfall.
Maybe the H-P digitizing is new, but the deception on Normandy and the Spanish double-agent has been on the public record for many years.
Give the Brits lots of credit. They understood that Hitler was an idiot who would always go with gut feelings. They played to his gut knowing full well he would ignore the wise advice of his generals. He was an ego mainiac, and they used that fact to destroy him.
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