[weikel]

I like Tuchman but the Germans had a big surplus of guys from the Eastern Front when the Americans entered. They would have gone the last ten miles to Paris and won the war if we hadn't entered.

[1rudeboy]

Battle of the Marne, September 6-10, 1914.

French casualties, approx. 250,000.
British casualties, approx. 13,000.

The United States declared war on Germany on April 6, 1917.

[johnny7]

And thanks to “Fighting Dan Daley” and some other Marines, we plugged the gap... and then moved forward.

When I think French military, I think of Petain and Weygand and DeGaulle.

As the French evaporated when the Germans crossed the Meuse in 1940, Weygand told Churchill that Britains neck would be strangled like a chickens. HA!