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To: meandog

Nice to know who they’re rooting for. He said “greatest”, not the largest. Barbarossa and the Soviet couterattack weren’t amphibious landings, either.


3 posted on 09/28/2008 12:42:38 PM PDT by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG 49) "Freedom's Fortress")
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To: neodad
Both Barbarossa and the Soviet couterattack would have failed utterly if attempted in anywhere from 180 to 30 feet of water.

The Posties know that (one must presume).

29 posted on 09/28/2008 1:02:21 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: neodad

The Russian operation was not a military invasion. It was part of a continuing follow-up campaign of pursuit of fleeing forces characterized by both armies having been in constant contact.

D-Day was an invasion, characterized by the need to establish a beachhead in an enemy-fortified mainland in which one goes from no contact with the enemy to immediate contact. Literally, they went from zero presence to a huge beachhead in the matter of a month.


35 posted on 09/28/2008 1:05:49 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain Opposing -> ZerObama: zero executive, military, or international experience)
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