Tuesday, December 9, 2008

World War 2 TIME article

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,884231,00.html

This is an article from TIME describing events in the United Kingdom during the war. The most stressed fact presented in this article is the death count and kills overall. In Verdun it says attackers and defenders died in massive numbers. The article describes how men where blown to pieces, it gives the image of how brutal the battles were.
British Forces took down two key figures on the German side. Major General Wolff von Stutterheim, who had suffered numerous wounds in WW1 had died of more wounds in WW2. Major Helmuth Wick was also taken down. He was responsible for shooting down 56 Polish ,French, and British planes in 15 months. However when he was shot down, the pilot that got him was shot down, so no one knew who was responsible.

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