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Kenraali 
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Re: Western front-interesting bits of information
At one point during the Normandy invasion on D-Day in 1944, the ratio of enlisted men to officers approached an astounding level of 5 to 1. "Never in the history of human combat," General Maxwell Taylor wryly declared, "have so few been led by so many."
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