Al Nofi's CIC
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Issue #3, July 28, 1999
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This Issue...
- Infinite Wisdom
- la Triviata
- Short Rounds
- Hirohito Honors His German Allies
- The Musket in the "French Wars."
- The Red Cross Parcel
- Briefing:
- The Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871
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Infinite Wisdom
In case of doubt, attack! We can conquer only by attacking; continued ruthless pressure by day and by night is vital.
Gen. George S. Patton, in an address to the Seventh Army 1943
La Triviata
The officially authorized ransom for a French general in 1675 was 50,000 livres, for which sum one could also ransom 7,142.9 privates, who only cost 7 livres each.
At the height of the Vietnam War the U.S. Army was operating more than 40 ice cream plants "in country."
The first general officer to make a combat parachute jump was Germany's Kurt Student, who hit the silk just east of Rotterdam in
the Netherlands on 10 May 1940.
The founder of Britain's airborne forces, General Sir Frederick Browning, who led the paras during World War II, was the husband of Daphne du Maurier, who wrote The Birds, Rebecca, and numerous other notable works.
Adolph Hitler's elation upon receiving word of the successful Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, soon turned to anger when he
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