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2006-08-25 Europe

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Posted by Chuck Simmins 2006-08-25 10:33|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Can anyone recommend a good book on the real Resistance? Thanks.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-08-25 11:03|| 2006-08-25 11:03|| Front Page Top

#2 Great news! Did this happen today?

Posted by tu3031 2006-08-25 11:08|| 2006-08-25 11:08|| Front Page Top

#3 My favorite part of the story:

"The 4th [division] bivouacked 12 miles south of the city as Germans retreated hastily across the Seine River. The 22nd set out in pursuit. That evening, 2nd French Armd. met strong opposition between Versailles and Paris. At midnight, the 12th was ordered to move into the city.

EARLY Aug. 25, while the 8th and 22nd crossed the Seine, the 12th advanced north on Boulevard dOrleans, ready to take on all comers. For once, doughs found the job nearly accomplished before they arrived. [The} Third Bn. reached Notre Dame Cathedral at high noon, first Allied military unit to see the famous square for more than four years."

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Moving to the north suburbs of Paris, the [4th] division cleared the city.

Maybe we should order the 4th division to clear those same suburbs again!

Al

Posted by Frozen Al">Frozen Al 2006-08-25 11:48|| 2006-08-25 11:48|| Front Page Top

#4 Nimble: there was a good article in MHQ several years ago entitled "The Myth of French Resistance." Like anything in MHQ, it was superb.

Posted by Mike 2006-08-25 14:21|| 2006-08-25 14:21|| Front Page Top

#5 Maybe we should order the 4th division to clear those same suburbs again!

Put our troops at risk for a third time to rescue what has to be the most phenomenonal bunch of governmental ingrates ever assembled? I don't think so!

Rush in to confiscate France's nuclear arsenal just before they fall into Muslim hands? Yes. But not a minute sooner.

Posted by Zenster 2006-08-25 14:27|| 2006-08-25 14:27|| Front Page Top

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