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captain queeg

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1. I recently read a book of the German perspective
Sun Jun 6, 2021, 06:21 AM
Jun 2021

As you can imagine they were stunned. Besides the enormity it was interesting to hear what really surprised them. No horses were mentioned by many. We have been shown so many pictures of the German mechanized army but in reality the vast majority were on foot and used horses extensively. Another thing that amazed them were the DD Sherman tanks that came directly ashore and entered combat after swimming in.

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