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> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Howard Brazee
> Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 9:53 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: 360 programs on a z/10
>
> On Mon, 04 Jan 2010 09:18:21 -0500, jmfbahciv <jmfbah...@aol> wrote:
>
> >>>> Note that both Patton and Montgomery agreed that the best
approach was
> >>>> a spearhead across Europe into Germany. They disagreed on who
should
> >>>> lead it, each wanted to be the sole leader of the action.
Eisenhower
> >>>> overruled both and ordered a broad approach. Was Eisenhower or
Patton
> >>>> correct? Again, Hindsight is 20/20.
> >>>
> >>> And we do know that Eisenhower was correct "enough". And that's
what
> >>> really counts.
> >>
> >> Is it really enough??? If *many* more lives could have been saved
by
> >> doing things a different way and *still* succeeding... would that
*not*
> >> have been better???
> >>
> >
> >You are unbelievable. Do you really wish that Europe dithered until
> >after Germany had the atomic bomb?
>
> He implied nothing of the kind. The question was - if, say, Patton
> and Montgomery were right, that the war could have been won quicker
> with fewer casualties - wouldn't that have been better?
>
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