July 22nd, 2003, 03:06 PM
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Originally posted by Phil:
Well,
It's hard to say, as many of the units at the time were new i.e. Para, SAS, LRDG etc, but my choices would be,
Britain, - a combat engineer attached to the airborne.
German, - a combat engineer attached to the airborne (did they have them in the Fallshirmjaeger?) or SS (cos it was an elite, not because of what it stood for or believed)
US, - a combat engineer attached to the airborne.
Russian, - anti-tank gunner 1941-42, ground attack airplane pilot 1943-45.
France, - a white flag holding POW! or the foreign legion [img]smile.gif[/img]
Phil
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Or maybe a French soldier around Lille who were given full military honours on surrendering to Germans after saving the British Armys backside towards Dunkirk, or the French soldier or naval marine who defended the Dunkirk perimeter with his British colleagues, or a French commander in the Dunkirk Bastion co-ordinating the defence of the rearguards to enable us to ship off the French beaches?
Or maybe even the French soldier who knowing there would be no surrender at Calais fought on to the end with his British colleagues?
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