tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381917167978264683.post9082638998381090685..comments2023-10-30T06:31:05.501-07:00Comments on MilPub: 7th of May 1954FDChiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381917167978264683.post-61523216025231961702014-05-25T10:11:14.075-07:002014-05-25T10:11:14.075-07:00Jim -
Jean Larte'guy -
I had read some of ...Jim -<br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Larteguy" rel="nofollow">Jean Larte'guy</a> - <br /><br />I had read some of his works back 40 or 50 years ago. I just recently purchased a copy of <i>'The Centurions'</i> at our local friends-of-the-library book sale and intend to reread it when I am finished plowing through Barbara Tuchman's opus on ww1.<br /><br />Good author! But I suspect some of his wit was lost in translation.<br /><br />Glad to hear Bernard Fall was required reading @ SFOC. Too bad his works were'nt required reading at the time for the WH, DOD, Joint Chiefs, and any and all members of the SASC and HASC.<br /><br />I am sure the French Foreign Legion had a lot of former SS. But there were many Waffen SS units made up of non-Germans: Ukrainians, Russian Tatars, Estonians, Croats, Bosnians, etc.mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381917167978264683.post-47997129267208506772014-05-25T07:10:19.894-07:002014-05-25T07:10:19.894-07:00Mike ,
My typing was incorrect.
it's LAUTERGUY...Mike ,<br />My typing was incorrect.<br />it's LAUTERGUY.<br />nice piece of thinking here.<br />Fall reported that most FL'ers were former SS.<br />jimrangeragainstwarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02126542922536584950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381917167978264683.post-24380968632290377292014-05-25T07:08:28.341-07:002014-05-25T07:08:28.341-07:00Mike,
I'd suggest that you read the fictional ...Mike,<br />I'd suggest that you read the fictional accounts of the 1st indochine war written by Jean Paul Latterguy.<br />They are fiction but we were req'd to read them in SFOC,<br />Of course Fall was also a requirement.<br />Now sadly i must say that i wrote a long reply to this essay,AND IT DISAPPEARED when i sent it.<br />jimrangeragainstwarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02126542922536584950noreply@blogger.com