Armistice Day

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Be happy the Germans did not have crack troops defending those positions.

Some of the troops were, indeed, second rate. But some of them were "stomach troops", men with ulcers and the like. Good troops with problems. And sections were occupied by "rest troops", units taken out of the Eastern Front and sent to the Channel coast to rest and reorganize. High percentage of combat veterans in those units.

And entire battalions were made up of Russians and Poles who had surrendered to the Germans and decided that being in the Wehrmacht was better than a POW camp.  Americans hate to face up to the fact that we were going up against the German fifth-stringers by 1944.  The Russians had ground them down to nothing.  They did have some superior weaponry which masked the deficiency a bit but the .88s and long-barreled .75 mm a/t guns ( as well as the MG 42 which Brian referenced earlier ) could only do so much.  Panthers and Tigers were great tanks but they did not have enough of them to make a difference especially in the face of unchallenged Allied air superiority.

Nonetheless, the men who went up against those positions deserve more than this.

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White House confirms Trump will not visit Arlington cemetery on Veteran’s Day as rain is expected

Apparently the orange piece of shit is afraid he'll melt.