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To: OrioleFan

When you look at the newsreels of what those men went through on the D-Day landing, it’s completely beyond belief.


3 posted on 01/08/2009 10:21:15 PM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (Satire writers should get a bailout. The current reality is putting them out of business.)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

Another soldier reporting to the mansions of the Lord. God Bless Him and Welcome Him!


5 posted on 01/08/2009 10:55:01 PM PST by Loud Mime (Things were better when cigarette companies could advertise and lawyers could not....LM)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

I picked up a copy of “The Battle of the Hedgerows” at the library the other day. The Overlord planners had no plan to handle the terrain behind the beaches in Cotentin Peninsula. The GI’s had to find ways to defeat a well entrenched foe. Then, they’d bring in another unit and they would have to learn the lessons all over again. Bradley and Montgomery ended up fighting a war of attrition for weeks beyond the original plan for a breakout hedgerow by hedgerow. It cost a lot of lives.


11 posted on 01/09/2009 11:35:53 AM PST by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is the 4th of July, democrats believe every day is April 15)
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