11-24-2020, 11:35 AM
(11-23-2020, 10:14 PM)K9Buck Wrote:Yep.....shoot, 5ish years later when my dad was in the army, half of the group he went thru Ft Bragg with went to Korea, and half went to Germany(including him). He's told me several times that the entire reason they were in Germany was to 'slow down the Soviets' if they started WWIII. We knew we didn't have the resources/men to engage them, so we put enough there to be a deterrent.(11-23-2020, 10:10 PM)Soupcity Kid Wrote: For the record Patton hated BOTH the Nazi ***** and the Commie *****. He did say while we have the equipment and while we are here we should get it on with Russia. He was reprimanded for his implications.
We didn't have nearly enough men or material in Europe to take on the Soviets in April/May of 1945.
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