[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Retain Mike.

Ike's air commander, British Air Chief Marshall Leigh-Mallory, saw only tragic forebodings reinforced by memories of American paratroop failures in North Africa, Italy and Sicily, and the German catastrophe on Crete. The German losses there were so severe that Hitler forbid any further massive air assaults.

Sidebar: Hitler was a spineless tactical moron -- Crete was wrapped up by the Germans in just 13 days, with the turning point happening on the second day, and the British POWs and naval losses were considerable.

[Monkey Face]

Thanks for this article.

I’ve never known anyone who would talk to me about WWII, and that’s probably just as well because I wouldn’t have known what questions to ask.

But I did read a lot, and I was a brand new bride when Viet Nam was in full swing, so I was a military wife. It was only after we went to Germany in the late 60’s that I began my search for history of the war there.

Of course I read as much as I could about the beginnings of the men in Europe and Japan who were so greedy for land and power that they started wars. These days, I have three types of books on my library shelves — History of the war in Europe, history of the war in the Pacific and church doctrine.

My take is that we could not have won had it not been for God interceding. And He blessed all those who sacrificed their lives for the generations they would never see. It is so in every war.

‘Face

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