nzt1939@dsacg3.dsac.dla.mil (William M. Aldo) (12/01/89)
From: nzt1939@dsacg3.dsac.dla.mil (William M. Aldo)
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>It would be interesting to compile a list of battles that were won by
>one side doing something the other thought was physically impossible.
>Besides Dien Bien Phu and the Ho CHi Minh trail, other examples include
>
>- Burgoyne getting guns up a mountain overlooking Ft. Ticonderoga,
>- some Mainers doing the same thing to Ft. Louisburg on Cape Breton Is.
> in the 17th century,
>- the Germans driving tanks through the Ardennes.
>- Patton moving so fast in the Battle of the Bulge.
>
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> Wm. Randolph Franklin
How about U.S.S. Yorktown being severely damaged in the Battle of
th Coral Sea, then being right smack in the middle of the Battle of
Midway just a few days later (only to be sunk, of course). The
Japanese thought she was too severely damaged to even be considered
close to "operative", much less take part!
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