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Post by jodak on Nov 14, 2016 8:51:59 GMT -6
An interesting event occurred on this day (November 14) in 1943. An American destroyer accidently fired a torpedo at the battleship U.S.S. Iowa that was transporting FDR and all of the U.S. high command to the Tehran Conference. Fortunately the torpedo missed and exploded in the Iowa's wake.
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Post by jodak on Nov 17, 2016 7:38:36 GMT -6
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Post by jodak on Nov 22, 2016 9:42:33 GMT -6
Some additional information related to the previous post. One particularly revealing portion -
"The "ground level" view remained that Eisenhower might have made a mistake. Patton later wrote that were he Eisenhower he would have told Patch to send the VI Corps across the Rhine.[12] The bulk of the XV Corps would have remained west of the Rhine to protect Patton's right flank. The Third Army could also have been used to exploit the XV Corps breakthrough. Political factors are hard to estimate, as the prospect of upsetting Montgomery, if it went no further, might have had a sort of perverse appeal to Eisenhower and Bradley. From the American point of view, stopping the Seventh Army probably showed a lack of imagination and flexibility.[13] This decision, which the Germans would quickly guessed -- if not learn from intelligence sources -- fit in with Hitler's plans. The December surprise German counter attack in the Ardennes was already in the works. There was no need to worry about a southern breakthrough. "
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Post by jodak on Nov 23, 2016 17:48:33 GMT -6
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