[stylin19a]

Hollings cast his frustration in personal terms, recalling that his units in World War II learned to avoid launching attacks if they were certain to be killed while doing so.

I can't imagine in what context Hollings said this. If this had been true...Normandy never would have happend....Iwo Jima never would have happened etc...

[Timesink]

I can't imagine in what context Hollings said this. If this had been true...Normandy never would have happend....Iwo Jima never would have happened etc...

I wonder what Old Foghorn's public position is on Hiroshima. The original plans for the invasion of Japan expected ONE HUNDRED PERCENT of the men on the front lines of the invasion to die. You don't get much more "certain to be killed" than that.