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from: Bill Lucy
date: 2005-11-02 07:51:40
subject: The French Fighting Myth of World War II

From: Bill Lucy 

Just read this from William Lind:

http://www.sftt.org/main.cfm?
actionId=globalShowStaticContent&screenKey=cmpDefense&htmlCategoryID=30
&htmlId=4074

"Here, what we learned dispelled one of the myths of the 1940
campaign, that the French did not fight. Stonne was captured and recaptured
some seventeen times in one day, in actions where the French fought
bitterly and the Germans, especially the Grossdeutschland Regiment, took
heavy casualties. At one point, a single French Char B heavy tank entered
the village, destroyed thirteen German tanks and then left, intact, despite
taking 140 hits. That illustrated both the French superiority in equipment
and the rarity of French initiative and cooperation."



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