November 15th, 2007, 12:45 AM
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Re: US and finding a place to fight. What Did
Excellent input BigFun. Post all the quotes you want.
About shipping here is a quote from Winston Churchill and the Second Front
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In justifying Gymnast on the basis of saving a million deadweight tons in shipping, Sir Alan Brooke ignores the fact that in the long run the loss in shipping incurred as a result of sustaining his new Mediterranean campaigns must have greatly outweighed what was gained in opening up the sea. Furthermore, with the Mediterranean once open there was no longer nearly so serious a need for it as a route, because the Middle East theater, the principal front which the Mediterranean passage could supply, and at the greatest economy in shipping would necessarily be wound up though a victorious campaign to open the inland sea. In short, as General Marshall would become well aware, in spite of what Brooke has liked to consider the American Chief's ignorance of logistics, an operation to clear the Mediterranean was self-defeating so fas as a net profit in shipping was concerned. pg 135 (Reference to House of Commons Debates, 5th series vol 381, 237-576; cf. John Wheeler-Bennett)
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