Posted on 07/20/2007 6:24:09 PM PDT by SuzyQ2
Forrest's soldiers loved him. His fellow generals admired him. His enemies were terrified at the mere mention of his name. Gen. Robert E. Lee said of his finest subordinate commanders, the most remarkable was one he "had never met" — Forrest. And U.S. and foreign military officers alike have studied Forrest’s campaigns over the decades since the end of the war. It has even been speculated that some aspects of the German Blitzkrieg were patterned after some of Forrest's operations.
(Excerpt) Read more at tank.nationalreview.com ...
According to the ad on craigslist, the book in question is 402 pages. One hell of a magazine article. Still, you were the one calling him a 'noted author'. So what was his name?
You might want to check your grandfather's story. Rommel wasn't a cavalry officer and he never visited the U.S. His career prior to WWII was with mountain troops, and the book that he was known for was actually on infantry tactics. He had nothing to to with mounted or motorized units until 1940.
Let's set the wayback machine to 2004 and the post #36 of the thread U.S. Coast Guard 214th Birthday Celebration ~ August 4 2004
To: Allbet ya'll didn't know that the CG ARMED private fishing boats in the Chesapeake Bay AND provided arms (including water-cooled heavy MGs AND some "light deck guns", read CANNONS!) to the Maryland, New York, Rhode Island, Texas (fyi,all TX gunboats are named/re-named for TX cities, when serving in wartime) and Virginia "state naval forces" (read:PRIVATEERS!), during WW2.
SOME of those fishing boats/yachts got into SHOOT-OUTS with German submarines & WON! all of the "privately-crewed gunboats did VALUABLE service to the war effort!
The CITY OF GOLIAD (formerly the 64-foot motor yacht, EEL) captured a U-boat in 1942 & towed it to Galveston,TX as a PRIZE OF WAR! (the U-boat is now berthed in the Galveston County Park.)
The CITY OF GONZALES (formerly the 88-foot sailing yawl, GRAY-HOUND)fought a 2-hour surface battle with another U-boat & SUNK the submarine, with a direct hit from a WW1-surplus ANTI-TANK GUN!
see the book YACHTS AGAINST SUBS by RAM(retired) L.B.N.Gnaedinger for more details! facinating book!
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36 posted on 08/04/2004 5:24:19 AM PDT by stand watie (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. -T. Jefferson)
If you have any thoughts on this matter, I'd love to hear them.
I just did a little checking, and while I couldn’t find anything about Rommel in the US, I did find out that in 1938, while an instructor at Potsdam, he started writing a book on armored cavalry and tank tactics that was intended as a sequel to his book on infantry tactics.
From what I've read Rommel's sequel was a project he started much later, during or shortly after the African campaign. He died before he could get very far. He could hardly have written it any earlier than that since prior to 1939 there weren't any proven tank tactics to write about, and Rommel himself didn't participate in developing them or command armored units until 1940.
It is believed he started writing it while commandant of the War Academy at Wiener Neustadt (Theresian Military Academy) in 1938, though he may have started earlier during his time as an instructor at the Potsdam War Academy (1935–37). His career as a military theorist and instructor, however, was preempted by his duties as a commander and soldier during World War II. For the next several years he was too busy as a practitioner of armored warfare to write about it.
Following the end of the North African Campaign in 1943, he again started work on it, drawing upon his, by then, extensive experience and notes. But once more war, along with ill health, interfered as he was put in charge of the defense of Normandy in 1944. After his staff car was strafed by an RCAF Spitfire fighter on July 17 of that year, he again started on the work while recuperating from his injuries. But he was soon implicated in the July 20 Plot against Adolf Hitler and compelled to commit suicide on October 14.
The Tank In Attack exists only in the form of scattered manuscripts and notes, but due to the fame of its author, it has achieved legendary status as a work of military literature. Most of what was to be in The Tank in Attack can be found in the book The Rommel Papers, which is made from notes and diary entries by Field Marshal Rommel during the Africa campaign.
WHEN are you going to admit that you INTENTIONALLY & KNOWINGLY LIED to everyone, not once but many times on this forum???
also, when are you going to ADMIT that you were PERMANENTLY BANNED from FR & came back to the forum with a new screen-name.
AFTER you answered those questions TRUTHFULLY, i'll "get around to" your DUMB-bunny, pointLESS, ignorant questions>
laughing AT you!
free dixie,sw
also, you're AGAIN trying to "change the subject" to ANYTHING except that he's a LIAR & evidently a FOOL as well, inasmuch as he said that people who only write articles in magazines are not authors. i wonder if he believes the same NONSENSE about people, who only write plays,poems,lyrics,journals,monographs,etc.???
PITY, that you're "sticking up for" a creep like him. fwiw, doing so, does you NO honor.
free dixie,sw
fyi, i think you are aware of who wrote the book & are just being a TWIT, as the author & other data on the book have been posted several times on different WBTS threads.
as i said, ALL you are doing is trying to AVOID the sad (for YOU & the DAMNyankees on FR) truth that "bubba" is a serial LIAR, a HATER, evidently a DUMB-bunny as well AND he is making ALL of you "DY coven members" look STUPID & DISHONEST!
free dixie,sw
laughing AT you.
free dixie,sw
Like I said, there's a liar in the picture but I'm not sure it's Bubba. An ad that purports to sell a book that suddenly grew from magazine article sized to 400-plus pages, mentions nonexistent organizations and nonexistent ships, and that deals with a chapter of history that nobody, but nobody except you and he says happened? Yeah, I'd say there was a liar in here somewhere.
trying to "change the subject" & all your other "flailing around" just makes YOU look DISHONEST & frankly "less than intelligent". as you ARE the "brightest of the DY coven", this load of BILGE that you keep casting onto the threads does you NO HONOR & INJURES everyone "on your side".
free dixie,sw
Funny thing about that book listing. I sent an email to the alleged seller offering to buy the book (and I actually can afford it--my freelance side work has been very good lately). Today I got back this email:
tara bankhead to me, dskaja, iambc1, louiselTara Bankhead. Bankhead. Where have I seen that name before?
8:02 am (1½ hours ago)
Dear Sirs & Ladies,I am pleased to tell you that a perfectly lovely older gentleman from here in town contacted me less than a day after i posted my book for sale, came to see the book last evening, accompanied me to the college business office this morning & paid my total outstanding tuiton bill, in trade for the book.
Thank you for your kind emails & offers of support.
Keep looking up, as He is coming & soon.
Have a blessed day as mine has been, Tara
Rally to the Battle Flag!Post #104And here again...To: James Gunn
just a couple of comments- As a "recipient" of yankee "kindness" during the WBTS, MY FAMILY suffered many murders of women and children (should you doubt this go to the Lake Corinth Cemetary in Corinth, MISS and look at the many gravestones and observe the gender and ages of the dead!- all but one was either female or under 10 years old- the family surname is BANKHEAD),as well as numerous cases of rape, robbery, arson and pillaging....yours for truth and dixie, SW
104 Posted on 01/10/2000 07:02:43 PST by stand watie
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Battle for Tarawa (11/20-23/1943) Jul. 8th, 2004Post #32Small world, huh?To: snippy_about_it
FYI, my uncle, PO3 Wayne Thomas Bankhead, was at Tarawa, aboard the USS Champion (acting Chief, battle damage repair).
he said, "it was a H of a fight! NONE worse."P>free dixie,sw
32 posted on 07/08/2004 8:29:00 AM PDT by stand watie (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. -T. Jefferson)
i wonder if you just made that up???
frankly, NOTHING you say/post can ever get your reputation back.
NOTHING except ADMITTING that you LIED!
free dixie,sw
What was the author's rank and branch of service?
Where was that U-boat captured?
When was that synagogue in Alexandria burned?
as i said, your reputation is RUINED forever on FR, especially given the FACT that you ADMITTED a fraudulent posting on craigslist. further, you only removed that FRAUDULENT listing AFTER a FReeper told you that doing that was a violation of the law, as well as a DISHONEST thing to do.
to ALL: that's what LIARS do. they LIE, as "bubba" constantly does. sadly for HIM, in this case the lies he told are CLUMSY & (like him) not particularly intelligent.
free dixie,sw
as i said, your reputation is RUINED forever on FR, especially given the FACT that you ADMITTED a fraudulent posting on craigslist. further, you only removed that FRAUDULENT listing AFTER a FReeper told you that doing that was a violation of the law, as well as a DISHONEST thing to do.
to ALL: that's what LIARS do. they LIE, as "bubba" constantly does. sadly for HIM, in this case the lies he told are CLUMSY & (like him) not particularly intelligent.
free dixie,sw
as i said, your reputation is RUINED forever on FR, especially given the FACT that you ADMITTED a fraudulent posting on craigslist. further, you only removed that FRAUDULENT listing AFTER a FReeper told you that doing that was a violation of the law, as well as a DISHONEST thing to do.
to ALL: that's what LIARS do. they LIE, as "bubba" constantly does. sadly for HIM, in this case the lies he told are CLUMSY & (like him) not particularly intelligent.
free dixie,sw
to ALL: sorry for the multiple posts. mea culpa.
free dixie,sw
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