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To: SunkenCiv
I've always liked this quote from Churchill about tanks:

All the highest expert authorities were brought together several times and made to hammer out a strong and heavy tank, adapted primarily for the defence of this Island against invasion, but capable of other employment in various theatres. This tank, the A.22, was ordered off the drawing board, and large numbers went into production very quickly. As might be expected, it had many defects and teething troubles, and when these became apparent the tank was appropriately re-christened the "Churchill."

25 posted on 06/29/2019 12:52:37 AM PDT by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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To: naturalman1975
That's it! Thanks very much. I saw it in "Masters and Commanders: How Four Titans Won the War in the West, 1941-1945", but darned if I could locate the copy I read a few years back.

26 posted on 06/29/2019 1:03:46 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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