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To: kanawa
Patton on ‘holding a position’...

Those quotes are from Hollywood.

Read Ike's autobiography to get an idea of the ass-kicking the Allies took in the beginning from Rommel.

50 posted on 07/12/2010 7:04:57 AM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: sam_paine
Those quotes are from Hollywood.

Indeed... and this?....

"I don't want to get any messages saying, 'I am holding my position.' We are not holding a Goddamned thing. Let the Germans do that. We are advancing constantly and we are not interested in holding onto anything, except the enemy's balls. We are going to twist his balls and kick the living shit out of him all of the time. Our basic plan of operation is to advance and to keep on advancing regardless of whether we have to go over, under, or through the enemy. We are going to go through him like crap through a goose; like shit through a tin horn!"
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Patton's Speech to the Third Army was a speech given by General George S. Patton to troops of the U.S. Third Army on June 5, 1944, the day before D-day. Patton delivered variations of the speech on several different occasions to his troops, although the June 5 date is the most well known. No hard copy of the speech existed, so all of the published versions are from the notes of audience members. It has since become immortalized in George C. Scott's rendition in the movie Patton, where he delivers it in front of a large American flag. Patton's actual words were so colorful that the movie edited and toned down the language. Certain phrases from the speech were also used in Scott's dialogue later on in the film.
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60 posted on 07/12/2010 8:21:46 AM PDT by kanawa (Obama - "It's going to take a while for us to dig ourselves out of this hole.'')
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To: sam_paine

Nooo... those quotes are from the speech Georgie gave to Third Army troops before D-day.


75 posted on 07/12/2010 9:52:43 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Hitler Was Their Fate and their Fate Could Not Be Stayed. Von Braustitch.)
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