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A must read on CNN, war related, but not quite non political
Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2013 2:12 pm
by HappyHappy
Re: A must read on CNN, war related, but not quite non polit
Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2013 7:00 pm
by Soapy
Is it in crayon and large font?
Re: A must read on CNN, war related, but not quite non polit
Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2013 7:05 pm
by callmeslick
he needed spell-check to get CNN right.....
Re: A must read on CNN, war related, but not quite non polit
Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2013 7:07 pm
by nicolas10
Was good until they talked about Rommel... this guy's divisions murdered prisoners of war.
Nic
Re: A must read on CNN, war related, but not quite non polit
Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2013 7:28 pm
by CUDA
callmeslick wrote:he needed spell-check to get CNN right.....
Doesn't count, he used cut and paste

Re: A must read on CNN, war related, but not quite non polit
Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2013 10:40 pm
by HappyHappy
nicolas10 wrote:Was good until they talked about Rommel... this guy's divisions murdered prisoners of war.
Nic
"I would rather have a German division in front of me than French division behind me."
Gen George S. Patton "The patton Papers" by Martin Blumenson
HH
Re: A must read on CNN, war related, but not quite non polit
Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2013 12:22 am
by fatman
Nice read its good when enemy combatants can have some mutual respect
Re: A must read on CNN, war related, but not quite non polit
Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2013 3:01 pm
by HappyHappy
fatman wrote:Nice read its good when enemy combatants can have some mutual respect
True, but I also found Franz Stigler's narrative. He thought of it as "murder"
to shoot the bomber down. But he was aware that the nose guns were operational
and stayed away from them as best he could.
It is obvious from both pilots accounts that they were all done killing for the day.
HH