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From: Tiger
Date: Thursday, February 21, 2008 12:37 PM
Subject: Re: USA Had Vargas Girls, Pin Up Girls, etc. Did the other warring nations have anything as big as Vargas?
teuton263@aol.com wrote:
> On Feb 20, 8:29
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>>>p.s. To the poster who remarked "Americans" as a reason to fight- the
>>>Soviets certainly needed no Americans to win their war at all. THEY
>>>were the ones that swallowed up the bulk of the German Army and bled
>>>it dry- not the US, nor Britain, nor partisans, nor anyone else. The
>>>defense of the Motherland and revenge was good enough for the Soviets.
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>>Cough.. Lend Lease... Allied Strategic Bombing Campaign... Cough...
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> Without D-Day the USSR would have taken western Europe by late 1945 by
> itself. Ever wonder why Patton wanted to rearm the Germans and use
> them to go all the way to Moscow?
>
> Cough on that.
>
> Rob
>
By itself? I think not. Without alot of allied shipments of arms &
supplies Plus the small matter of half of the German forces tied down
elsewhere; the Russians are not winning anything.
Anyway wasn't this thread about Pin ups?
