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Friendly fire is most demoralizing. Even one of the posts on this thread bears this out. Good FOs in the earlier wars used counterbattery fire to exploit this effect. The high tech war of today with its many interfaces creates even greater potential problems than the usual problems of terrain, the u...

The quotes were a great treat! I particularly liked Helge's one of Churchill's on the pigs and Baltasar's own signature quote in German. For what it's worth the George Patton quote by C. Udentz is taken from an extemporaneous speech he made to the assembled oficers and ncos of the US 6th Armored Div...

I pass on this information Calvin Spann is an African American who trained at Keesler Field and Tuskegee Army Airfield in the Tuskegee Experiment as it was called. Mr Spann is 78 and is the subject of an Exhib at the Meadowlands Museum in Rutherford, NJ He lives in Englewood and his first job after ...

Commissioner, everything I have ever done pales in face of the idiocy of most of the "jobs" the Army gave me to do in the Big War. I and another guy were detailed to guard a barn full of unmilked cows in Alsace on one of those large coop farms where equipment, stock and so forth was pooled...

Re: Sid G's post 12/27 I don't think that the boundary lines were a factor in the decisions; that was the point of my reference to Guderian's suggestion to Hitler after he rehabilitated him to put the recently assembled Volksturm (1 mil?) in a defensive line with the retreating forces along the old ...

Commissar D Your post on Christmas in reply to Peter's "reasons" is vital poetry. I downloaded it and will save it. A writing that says so much more than the apparent words. Good job! Happy New Year Paul

It's Christmas Day here in New Jersey and I read BradyH's post on this subject dated Dec 23. It is interesting why the ACW and the participation of the German Armed Forces in WWII seem to mesh for many. I see a similar connected interest in my own thoughts. Maybe it's the irony in both Germany's and...

I'll persist and see whether I can find the reference. Just to set the subject in a perspective: the Army did not use the combat troops to guard prisoners or to govern political subdivisions . The infantry turned prisoners over to rear area people (divisional or corp MP units who in turned turned th...

That sure is a strange site Annie! I got groggy just trying to follow one or two topics. Seems like a year's supply of the London Tabloids. It might turn out to be good material for a sentence say of an stock brokerage advisor who misrepresents market activities of his insiders. Like Grubman and the...

Le Paradis' post above I can't help you on the German Units except to say that friends who fought through Italy give much praise to the 4th paratroops A complete aside, however, your post reminded me of a recent incident. Last June I was walking along the boulevard that parallels the South side of t...

At Yalta, Sid. Roosevelt bargained away the boundary lines to get the Russians to buy into the United Nations thing. Specific details were leaked after the surrender in the railroad car. Interesting; after all that killing and destruction, Jodl. Keitel and Donetz surrendered unconditionally. Interes...

Best wishes for a merry and happy Christmas to all members and their families. It's pouring rain here in the pine barrens. I walked in the rain for a couple of hours this morning with my Labs. Great dogs, never a complaint, always ready to go so long as you're with them. PBS had an interesting essay...

Sunlife My pleasure. Thank you for the post. Best wishes for a Happy Christmas . Paul

Apologies! My post on the Commissioner's inquiry above erred in using the name "Rosenberg" I dictated the copy on a cellphone and my trusty typist got the name wrong The observations were intended to apply to Henry Morganthau. A correspondent has observed that Michael Beschloss the histori...

Commissioner I hadn't notice that reference to Peck's book on African American Airmen. African Americans really took a social beating in the war; tossed into labor gangs, dumped into segrated camps. It's hard to even picture what the country was like in the 40s. I selected a group of writings I had ...