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by Run With The Fox |
Run With The Fox |
Ike was our greatest POTUS of the 20th Century. And the second best WW2 field General, Patton was Number one- and then lesser Generals: Clark, Bradley, and the British FM- Monty- just IMO of course- Patton's favorite bird gun was his Parker CHE 20 bore- not sure if that was the shotgun he had with him on that fateful Dec. day he was to go pheasant hunting with General Gay-- damn shame his untimely ending- always wondered how Patton would have handled the Korean conflict, had he been elected POTUS in 1948- RWTF
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by Run With The Fox |
Run With The Fox |
Thanks, Eightbore-- Thanks for the correction on the grade- thought I read in one of my Patton Library books that he had a 20 CHE--no biggy, but important detail. "Hated" PGCA members? Whom might that be, pray tell?? I respect you for the information and details that you, Dean Romig, Dave Suponski and other PGCA gents have researched, and shared with those "Parkeristas" and others.
I'm no longer a "Parker Participant", as about 5 years ago, my late good friend and favorite pheasant hunter at Fruitridge Farms, Brad Bachelor, sold my modest collection of "Old Reliables" to private parties unknown to me.
The funds went into trusts for my grandchildren. And as for Smiths- April 2019 closed the sale of my 12 gauge 3E to your pal Stan Hillis, down in Jawja.
Slowly but surely, I have been selling off a few of my "upper bracket" doubleguns, I want my grandchildren to have the advantage of the college education I didn't have--assuming the world is still full of opportunities for them. Happy New Year to you and your Lovely Linda. The very word Linda says it all, in Spanish it means Lovely.. RWTF
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by Run With The Fox |
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Ok,Ok, Ike was Supreme Commander- picked because he was a great man at getting along with the Limeys to get D-Day underway- And the "dummy Army" under Patton that tricked the Krauts (at least Hitler) into thinking that the Pas De Calais was the site of the invasion- not Normandy. But his judgement was flawed twice after D-Day: (1) approving Monty's hair brained plan: "Market Garden"- doomed to fail, almost impossible to co-ordinate airborne, ground and tanker units to a synchronized battle plan- the lack of common radio signals, plus an almost criminal lack of attention to the intel the Dutch underground was sending the Allies-and (2) Ignoring the intel that was out there in the open in Dec 1944- about the pending "Battle Of The Bulge", where, just as with Pearl Harbor, we got caught with our pants down again, this time by the Krauts--
By the by, Patton sensed both those grand Fubars way ahead of Bradley, Clark, Monty et al. Live and learn. RWTF
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by Run With The Fox |
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I beg to differ, Argo- Patton once said "Accurate Intel" is worth a whole Armored Div. in your back pocket--And Patton may not have sniffed out the Kraut's last ditch attempt to turn the battle for supremacy in the ETO- but his "Ace In The Hole" Colonel Koch did- first clue, besides the crappy weather in Mid Dec 1944, was the obvious lack of radio transmissions by the Krauts--and like his boss, George Patton, Col. Oscar Koch was a student of European Military history- intel from captured prisoners was also a key part of his strategy-- Ike-- he was probably trying to figure out to do with "Monty", after the FUBAR of Market Garden. Foxist/Reynaud/Der Fuchs
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by Run With The Fox |
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No, I just thought, like myself, he is a serious WW2 History buff. I have 4 books on Patton, have read and re-read those many times-- a most complex man- spoke fluent French, a student of the classics, married into affluent Boston Back Bay old money, Beatrice indulged his every whim- horses, a yacht, and possibly his Parkers. One fact remains: in spite of his Sicilian "slapping soldiers" in medic tents, he lead from the front, like Rommel, and no General in the ETO had logged the hours he spent visiting his wounded men, and personally gave the Purple Hearts, instead of delegating that duty to a field grade officer- thanks for the feedback, however- RWTF
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