March 2013 Mailbag

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   March 2013 – Armchair General: Patton in World War I » Armchair General says:

   1/14/2013 at 1:45 pm

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     Bill Taylor RVN 1970-71 says:

     1/19/2013 at 12:02 pm

     Your Dispatch on The Man Without a Gun struck a chord with me. I remember my mother – a WAC company commander in WWII on an atoll in the South Pacific – telling us that when Japanese wounded started shooting our medics who tried to treat them we started arming the medics to defend themselves. The ladies in her unit’s censure platoon were told to take their razor blades and cut out of the sampling of letters going home any words to the effedct “Well, mom, they finally gave us a gun.” We did not want that message getting out.
     Twentify-five years later I found myself as a cav platoon leader in RVN with an unarmed CO as my platoon medic. He was one of the bravest men I’ve ever known. More than once I had to use my high school football defensive back tackling skills to stop him from rushing to the wounded in a not-yet-cleared ambush site.
     Thanks for your thoughtful portrayal of true heroes who will never be unsung to those of us privileged to have served with them.

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   David Leber says:

   1/21/2013 at 12:04 am

   I would like to see a “what if” article concerning what would have happened if Hitler had not attacked Russia in 1941. I am sure that we would not have been able to invade Normandy in 1944 or ever if most of the German army was not being tied up in Russia.

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     Jerry Morelock, ACG Editor says:

     1/22/2013 at 11:39 am

     Thanks very much for your comment. Since the vast bulk of the German army was indeed tied up on the Eastern Front 1941-45, what you have noted about the possible success or failure of the Normandy invasion in 1944 seems a valid point. A “what if’ article about Hitler not invading the Soviet Union in 1941 is a good idea for a future issue at some point. Thanks for reading ACG and thanks for your comments!

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   Charles Lutz says:

   2/15/2013 at 9:31 pm

   I was thinking that armchair general, should publish a book that consists of nothing but interactive games (combat decision games). I love your magazine, and I promise that I would love your book. Also it would be nice if you had a CDG on the napoleonic era and or the renaissance era.

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