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To: PAR35

Yeah, where his great idea left the 82nd and 101st US Airborne holding the bag when the operation went South.


25 posted on 06/11/2007 1:29:23 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Spktyr

They weren’t annihilated like the British 1st Airborne, however.


27 posted on 06/11/2007 1:33:39 AM PDT by Strategerist
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Yeah, where his great idea left the 82nd and 101st US Airborne holding the bag when the operation went South.

I would submit that it was the British First Airborne and the Poles that got left holding the bag.

MG was unusual for a Montgomery operation - he ususally arranged for Commonwealth or other non-British troops to bear the brunt - unless he had thought that the heaviest fighting would be closest to the front lines.

88 posted on 06/11/2007 8:58:41 AM PDT by PAR35
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