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October 07, 2004
Typically French
I may've misremembered, and Bill or Mike please correct me if I have, but I believe my father-in-law was one of the few survivors of Operation Torch. (Link via Right Wing News) The French have never been our friends, and have only been our allies when it suits their own goals. If you believe otherwise, you're as big a fool as the generals who naively sent those boys in there expecting a 'token' resistance/surrender from the Vichys, but got them slaughtered instead.
Go read and you'll see what I mean.
Posted by Rita at October 7, 2004 05:35 PM
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tis true....
The unit he had been with for two years (he enlisted well before the war) was decimated, his best bud cut in half by machine gun fire before they got to the beach.
Dad got drunk in Tangiers and, in a brandy blackout, accosted anyone wearing a blouse with brass buttons, demanding if they "parley vous'd francaise". If the answer was oui, he kicked their asses. It seems that he had been given new shirts with cheap plastic buttons and the french were getting the shirts with brass buttons, which purely pissed the old man off.
He claimed this went on for a few days, until he sobered up in the brig.
He damn near got court martialed for beating the crap out of a french officer, but his commanding officer was in the Moroccan amphibian assault and lost a few friends too, so Dad was sent to Sicily to get him away from the problem.
Posted by: Mike S at October 7, 2004 10:12 PM