To: snippy_about_it
General James Gavin of the 82nd Airborne Division has very harsh words in "On to Berlin" for the staff guys responsible for losing so many of our people for no reason at Huertgen. He said the staff weenies worked from maps instead of walking the ground.
Not being bloody minded it looks to me that Courts Martial were in order. Make sure that the judges had served in the Huertgen Forest. Put some platoon sergeants in as judges that arrived at Huertgen with a corporal's stripes and ended their battle with ten men walking of fifty that started.
9 posted on
11/26/2004 2:37:36 AM PST by
Iris7
(.....to protect the Constitution from all enemies, both foreign and domestic. Same bunch, anyway.)
To: Iris7
Morning Iris7.
"For us the Hurtgen was one of the most costly, most unproductive and most ill-advised battles that our army has ever fought"
Gen. James Gavin
16 posted on
11/26/2004 6:58:04 AM PST by
SAMWolf
(I won't rise to the occasion, but I'll slide over to it.)
To: Iris7
The Hurtgen was certainly a sad state of affairs all around. Good men to the slaughter. God Bless their souls.
46 posted on
11/26/2004 10:18:25 AM PST by
snippy_about_it
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