[Milsurplus] Memorial Day

[Bruce MacMillan]

David Stinson wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Francesco Ledda" <frledda at verizon.net>
> Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Memorial Day
>> CDG quickly forgot who saved his ass.....
>>     

The British, Canadians, Australians, New Zealanders, South Africans, 
Indians, Free
Poles, Free French...oh yes, and the Americans.  Remember though it was 
the Russians who captured Berlin forcing Hitlers suicide and the German 
surrender.

>
> With notable exceptions, according to 
> contemporary historians, the general population 
> laid down and rolled over at the feet of the Germans.

The King of Belgium capitulated first allowing the Germans to flank the 
Maginot Line and with the blitzkrieg warfare wreck havoc.
It was barely 20 years earlier that France  had fought a devastating 
battle that decimated her army and wiped villages off the map. You can 
sympathize with her people for not wanting to repeat that.
CDG did rally his people. By the time D-Day arrived the Free French 
Forces numbered 400,000.

In keeping with a radio theme let's not forget the British efforts with 
Operation Fortitude and Aspidistra that greatly reduced the expected 
D-Day casualties.

BTW, CDG didn't make many friends in Canada with his "Vivre Le Quebec 
Libre" speech.

Bruce