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To: jmacusa

On this day in 1944, General Browning of the First Allied Airborne Army, upon landing in the 82nd Airborne DZ, ran across the field to the Reichwald Forest, just inside the German Border, because he wanted to be the first British officer to pee in Germany.


21 posted on 09/17/2013 10:52:29 AM PDT by yawningotter
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To: yawningotter

Churchill later did the same thing in March of 1945. Seriously though, Market-Garden was a bloody disaster.


24 posted on 09/17/2013 10:57:55 AM PDT by jmacusa (Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
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