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In General Patton’s diary, he mentions that a captured German soldier told them a barge on the Rhine was carrying deadly gas. Patton ordered the barge to not be attacked and sure enough, it contained just what the German said it did.

4 posted on 01/22/2013 6:58:00 PM PST by yarddog (One shot one miss.)

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To: DogByte6RER; Lazamataz

Laz would.......

5 posted on 01/22/2013 7:03:11 PM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)

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They didn’t come in pink?

8 posted on 01/22/2013 7:16:05 PM PST by Morris70

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To: DogByte6RER

The straps enhance the scariness.

9 posted on 01/22/2013 7:17:37 PM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)

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This photo of paratroopers Clarence C. Ware and Charles R. Plaudo painting each other's faces on the afternoon of June 5, 1944, was printed in Stars and Stripes, and helped form the legend of "The Filthy Thirteen."

427U.S. Paratrooper Mohawks, World War II

I'll bet that these ladies dated these badass WWII paratroopers sporting mohawks ... seems like a match made in Heaven

10 posted on 01/22/2013 7:19:23 PM PST by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")

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Gasmasks were used quite a bit by all sides in WWII.

11 posted on 01/22/2013 7:23:06 PM PST by fso301

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