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To: SeekAndFind
"In the West, we fought Volksstrum units of teenagers and old men with nothing like the lower-level leadership that the German outfits in the East had had. You rise or stoop to the level of your opposition, such that by 8 May 1945, the Russians were simply better at war than we were..."

Solution: Bring in the Soldiers and Marines that fought against Tojo's Japanese Army in the Pacific. Or does the author think the Imperial Japanese Army was made up of old men and teenagers? My late father would have disabused him of that notion.

15 posted on 06/06/2018 11:00:12 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Solution: Bring in the..”

Are you kidding?


33 posted on 06/06/2018 11:30:04 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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