Hey Ward!

Sep 07 19:43 04, Ward Dossche wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 WD> The Americans moved south of that and liberated the southern 
 WD> provinces, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and then made a heroic stand 
 WD> in Bastogne (Battle of the Bulge) for which they deserve full credit. 
 WD> Bastogne for all intents and purposes is Belgian soil.

Right.  Tons of war movies out of Hollywood about that.

 >> They kidnapped a German
 >> fieldmarshall who surrendered to the Canadians and took full credit for
 >> that.

 WD> Huh? Who might that have been ??

I don't recall the name or the actual place where he surrendered.  All I
recall about the incident was that the Canadians had a command post set up
in a hotel or something of that nature where he was scheduled to officially
surrender.  When he did show up the Americans promptly nabbed him and
whisked him off to their headquarters and took the credit for his
"capture".  I suppose in a way the Americans were right that he
was captured and didn't surrender or at least not oficially.  If I find the
referance again I'll be happy to relay it to you i you wish.

 WD> There are thousands of Canadian graves here ... they have not been 
 WD> forgotten.

Yes.  Many of them from WWI too.

 WD> Visit the Maple Leaf project pages for more info.

Right.  Thank you.

Life is good,
Maurice

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