And Kurt Student!!! [img]graemlins/rk.gif[/img]

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"Watch that Fu*ker, he'll 'ave someones eye out!" King Harold at Hastings 1066.

Didn't he reach the rank of Admiral of the fleet too?

By the way, Leonard, since I see you're a PTO fan. I don't see names like Mountbatten, Alexander, Wingate or Slim... Nor I see names like Stilwell, MacArthur, Smith, Bruckner, Vandergriff, Krueger...

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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

"A mon fils: depuis que tes yeux sont fermes les miens n’ont cessé de pleurir." - Mère française, Verdun

Didn't he reach the rank of Admiral of the fleet too?</font>[/quote]Yes, he did, shortly before he died in the late 1950s, I think.

Yours,
Paul

Truth be known, I have a very, very narrow field of interest … obviously from my list. So, while I’m certainly aware of all those other gents and generally, but not detailed, conversant in their activities, any interest I’d have in them would only be as it would relate to my, oh, so narrow field. There is, IMHO, X amount of information and Y amount of time … kind of a “so much history and so little time” so I have a very small specialty, US naval aviation/carrier operations. I could get even narrower … specifically such operations in the first 6 months of the war and the last 6 months of the war. Love the contrast.

Halsey wasn’t promoted to Fleet Admiral until December 1945, after the war was over.

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I wonder what this button does . . .

Jochen Peiper
von Paulus
Manstein
Chuikov
Kirponos
Paulus particularly for his final "slap in the face" and direct disobeyment of Hitler.

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Cheers,
Daniel