But as in WWI, artillery and infantry had the last word in destroying fortifications, not so much air power. There were no Tomahawks then to destroy the Atlantic Wall, but there were battleships and cruisers, and GIs and Tommies to blow machine gun nests with hand grenades and flamme-throwers...

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"War is less costly than servitude, the choice is always between Verdun and Dachau." - Jean Dutourd, French veteran of both world wars

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