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Man made fog of war.
Pete
There is an aweful lot of good stuff in both yours and Neil's posts - much I agree with, some I might quibble over. I know this is a WW1 air forum, but as Normandy is another of my pet subjects, I could not help being attracted to your comments on Max Hastings v Stephen Ambrose. I actually recently read the latter's 'Band of Borothers' - and like the mini series based on it - it left me cold. I think he plays a little fast and loose with facts. The now much vaunted attack led by Winters on the 105 battery, in my humble opinion could only have occured on the morning of 7 June and not 6 June as claimed. I get the feeling that many US researchers of jealous of the Brit 6 Airborn's succeesses on 6 June as compared to in truth, the 82nd & 101's rather ordinary efforts. I often wonder how these much vaunted formations would have gone if 12 SS Panzer Div had been moved into the Continten as was being planned?
Russ
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