The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Hell's Highway (Sept. 1944) - Oct 14th, 2004

World War II's Special Collector's Edition - Band of Brothers. | 2004 | Michael Haskew

[PAR35]

"prefabricated" (in some accounts) Bailey Bridge

Prefabricated, but as they say on children's toys, "some assembly required".

[stand watie]

NOPE. she and her buddy/physical therapist have "decided among themselves" to do A ONCE WEEKLY session to work on strenghening the OTHER (Uninjured!) leg for the indefinite future.

beats me!

free dixie,sw

[PAR35]

A little more pushing along the coast and maybe Market-Garden would have been unnecessary.

It was always unnecessary as executed.

[PAR35]

The problem with both Patton's and Monty's plans was who is going to watch the flanks

The 7th Army could cover the area from the Swiss border to the Third Army, and the 1st Army would have an incrasingly smaller front to cover as Patton moved to the northeast.

Instead, Patton wasted a lot of troops in frontal attacks on Nancy and Metz when lack of supplies bogged down his forward motion. If he could have maintained the offensive, he could have isolated those cities and left them for the 9th army to clean up when they finished similar work in Western France.

[Iris7]

Everyone knows here that I have no use for Maxwell Taylor, who in those days commanded the 101st.

Taylor was the sort of commander who hung out at higher command instead of with his troops.

In the 60's Taylor gave cover to the Viet Nam war being run by the like of McGeorge Bundy and McNamara.

A bad man.

The officers and men of the 501st, 502nd, and 506th Parachute Infantry Regiments and the gliderborne men deserved much better than Taylor. They were an utterly first class bunch in every way. Add them to the men of the All Americans and you have men I am proud to call Countrymen. The past is not over, it is not even in the past.

[SAMWolf]

Women are just strange. ;-)

[SAMWolf]

It was always unnecessary as executed.

True.