bcgames -> RE: Desert War: Designing Avalanche (11/26/2019 3:22:27 AM)
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"Tough Old Gut" - The Battle of Salerno 9 - 17 September 1943 Two Panzer Korps vs two infantry corps...what could go wrong? Getting there... [image]local://upfiles/35266/7BB0B9350CEE47D2B23263BF86BEED58.jpg[/image] "A cross-channel operation [in 1943] was utterly impossible. We could not even get across without the British showing us the way and taking us by the hand. We did not have the means. And so it was decided that we would take this matter up with Mr. Churchill, which we did. And that is where his persuasive eloquence first impressed me. He got up before a map with his pointer and he kept pointing to Gibraltar, North Africa, the Mediterranean, Sicily and Italy. Finally he said, 'We should slit the soft belly of the Mediterranean.' Well, my friends, I assure you, when I landed at Salerno, I found it was a tough old gut!" -- General Mark W. Clark, Commander US 5th Army
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