[George - the Other]

We WILL Prevail!

[WorkingClassFilth]

VDH is great - should be required reading in every statist school.

[PeterFinn]

Maybe.

[tet68]

VDH Bump!

The Fifth estate wasn’t the Fifth column in those days.

[trooprally]

Thanks for the post. We all know war is hell, but sometimes necessary.

[VOA]

bump

[rlmorel]

"...Nevertheless, the Normandy campaign reminds us that war is by nature horrific, fraught with foolish error -- and only won by the side that commits the least number of mistakes. Our grandfathers knew that. So they pressed on as best they could, convinced they needn't be perfect, only good enough, to win. The American lesson of D-Day and its aftermath was how to overcome occasional abject stupidity while never giving up in the face of an utterly savage enemy. ..."

I am saving this snippet from him.

It is an absolutely perfect summation, in my opinion!

[xp38]

And this was the answer to the Wermacht. The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt shown here firing rockets. Probably no better named weapon for this website than this one. It carried 8 50 mm machine guns and could carry bonbs and rockets. From the invasion of Europe on June 6, 1944, to VE day on May 7, 1945, the Thunderbolt destroyed 86,000 railway cars, 9,000 locomotives, 6,000 armored fighting vehicles, and 68,000 trucks.

[ex-snook]

The difference is that in WW II we had some 15,000,000 military most of which were draftees. This was more than enough to compensate for mistakes but also sufficient to win, occupy and completely control the enemy. It was the formula for winning.