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To: ExtremeUnction

They still had horses till the end.

Scary isn't it. The US fought Germany and Japan with better equipment in many cases, but still had trouble.


10 posted on 07/28/2006 9:42:46 AM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: redgolum
The US fought Germany and Japan with better equipment in many cases, but still had trouble.

Germany had some great weapons. But it's strongest asset was it's troops. They fought well, and they fought hard.

14 posted on 07/28/2006 9:47:37 AM PDT by ExtremeUnction
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To: redgolum
Scary isn't it. The US fought Germany and Japan with better equipment in many cases, but still had trouble.

It *is* scary. Even with Hitler's miscalculations and blunders, Germany kept Europe at war for almost six years. It is hard to think what would have happened if the Third Reich had waited longer to start a war.

24 posted on 07/28/2006 10:43:22 AM PDT by Ebenezer (Strength and Honor!)
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To: redgolum

My dad was a WW2 vet and he told me that they used mules a lot during the war. One story he told me was about a sgt. yelling at 2 soldiers for beating on a mule. He told them that soldiers were a dime a dozen but mules were hard to come by.


28 posted on 07/28/2006 11:05:50 AM PDT by Bluesguy (bluesguy)
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