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...Allies had regained a great deal since the darkest days of 1941 and early 1942, when the Germans' panzer divisions swept to within 40 miles of Moscow and their Japanese allies struck at Pearl Harbor, the Philippines, Malaya. The hitherto invincible Japanese navy had been checked at the Battle of Midway in June 1942, the Soviets held fast at Stalingrad, and the Anglo-American invasion of North Africa that autumn inspired Churchill to say that although victory there might not be the beginning of the end, it was perhaps "the end of the beginning...
...recruits from Eastern Europe. Only 70,000 of the defenders were stationed near the targeted beaches. The Luftwaffe's fighter defenses had been seriously depleted in two years of air battles, and the remnants were in the process of being pulled back to defend the Reich itself. Three crack panzer divisions stood ready as a reserve, but Rommel could not count on them, for Hitler insisted on retaining personal control over their movements. Only recently had Rommel succeeded in organizing a crash program to install 1 million mines a month along the heavily barricaded beaches...
...have been worth the big bucks. Such a gadget would, for instance, have brought a speedy end to World War II's Battle of the Bulge, when three days of bad flying weather prevented Allied planes from rescuing outnumbered U.S. troops from the clutches of Hitler's panzer tanks...
...Baggio, prefect of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America. In a business-as-usual decision, such a power bloc would have won hands down. But this was an unusual situation, and John Paul is no rule-book Pontiff. Inside Vatican corridors, officials only half jokingly use the term the Panzer, for a Pope whose mind can be made up blitzkrieg-fast-and once made up, stay that...
...wake up one day to discover that they have neither peace nor freedom. Peace and ethics go hand in hand and where there are no ethics, there can be no peace unless of course you're willing to settle for the awful deadly "peace" of silenced consciences. Richard Panzer Collegiate Association for the Research of Principles