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To: henkster

I hadn’t heard about the maps.

But I do remember that the Germans came within a hair’s breadth of getting 3 million gallons of fuel at Spa.

That could have greatly affected the course of the battle.


40 posted on 12/21/2014 5:02:17 PM PST by EternalVigilance
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To: EternalVigilance
the Germans came within a hair’s breadth of getting 3 million gallons of fuel at Spa

This was the crux of the dreadful "Battle of the Bulge" movie, iirc.

41 posted on 12/21/2014 5:07:31 PM PST by Tax-chick (Remember Malmedy!)
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To: EternalVigilance

Not really. They needed protection from the air more than anything


55 posted on 12/21/2014 6:33:22 PM PST by AppyPappy (If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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