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To: Texas resident

Patton’s greatest role may very well have been as the decoy, who convinced the Germans we were going to land at Calais, instead of Normandy.


8 posted on 06/06/2026 6:38:21 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: dfwgator

Hell yes because the Germans were scared of Patton and respected him. He scared the hell out of the 3rd Reich.


9 posted on 06/06/2026 6:39:52 PM PDT by Texas resident ( We finally have an American President again)
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To: dfwgator; All

True, and the assault on a beach would be a difficult place to deploy tanks


21 posted on 06/07/2026 5:47:44 AM PDT by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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