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Old 11-17-2005, 04:31 PM  
Gawdy
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Originally Posted by hottoddy
No fair - you had a hometown advantage. Plus, around 400,000 of you spent lots of time on various French beaches waiting for evacuation boats to save your ass from the Krauts in 1940. Many of the British D-Day troops recognized beach landmarks from their earlier retreat.

I guess maybe because we joined the war at the begining, not after it had been already won. Then for John Wayne films and Hollywood to re write history for the next 40 years later.
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