Just imagine these eagles in our first air strike against terrorism. Of course the greatest eagle of them all Major Erich Alfred Hartmann. The best fighter General of all as the Gruppenkommandantur General Adolf Ferdinand Galland. The greatest ground attack pilot of aa time, Colonel Hans-Ulrich Rudel. Other greats Colonel Gunther Rall. Gerhard Barkhorn Wilhelm Batz Hans-Joachim Birkner Hubertus von Bonin Adolf Borchers Hans Dammers Adolf Dickfeld Otto Foennekold Peter Duettmann Adolf Glunz Hermann Graf Karl Gratz Alfred Grislawski Gerhard Hoffmann Dietrich Hrabak Herbert Ihlefeld Gerhard Koeppen Berthold Korts The indomitable Walter Krupinski Helmut Lipfert Rudolf Miethig Friedrich Oblieser Heinz Sachsenberg Franz Schall Heinz Schmidt Leopold Steinbatz The great leader of the New Luftwaffe, Genlt Johannes Steinhoff. The great Heinz "Hans" Sturm The excellent Rudolf Trenkel (On my addresses list too ) Hans Waldemann Johannes Weise The timely Franz Woidich (also on my list Walter Wolfrum Josef Zwernermann Hans-Eckard Bob Our greatest Night Fighter Pilot Martin Drewes. The skillful Hans-Joachim Marseille The great air commander Werner Molders and as an international group the rest of the roster would have: Johnny Johnson The very colorful Col. Gregory "Pappy" Boyington (the man who hated jerks) The cool Major Richard I. Bong. The levelheaded and well liked Japanese contribution Cmdr Fuchida. The Flying Tiger Squadron Commander David Lee "Tex" Hill, of San Antonio, Texas. and if we could pursuede him Ivan Nikitch Kozhedub. What a hell of a combat gruppe these men would make. The towelheads should praise their god that these men arent available. They had better say their prayers that these men arent in the form of our strike pilots.
Great choices, Mr. Evans. For Naval Air Support, I nominate Valencia's Mowing Machine with David McCampbell as Air Group Commander. For the bombing phase of our campaign, Curtis LeMay. Should we need to blockade our enemy, Erich Topp, Gunther Prein, (I'm sure you could think of more) and I nominate from the USA Dick O'Kane, and Mush Morton. Surface forces would be commanded by Nimitz, with Spruance and Halsey and Yamamoto on his staff... The bastards wouldn't stand a chance!! -Tim
Dear Smokestack, thank you, these are the nicest words I have seen or read-all day. By the way, great choices for additional "Gruppe" staff Anyone to niminate great commanders of Armor? Patton, Guderian, Rommel, Manstein, Spranz, Wittmann, Wohl.............................
<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by C.Evans: Dear Smokestack, thank you, these are the nicest words I have seen or read-all day. By the way, great choices for additional "Gruppe" staff Anyone to niminate great commanders of Armor? Patton, Guderian, Rommel, Manstein, Spranz, Wittmann, Wohl.............................<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Thanks. I'd suggest Skorzeny for our much-needed covert ops. team. Col. Frost commands our joint airborne forces, made of the same units that fought in Market Garden. Merrill and Wingate assist those enemies of unfriendly governments.... -Tim
Smokey---I agree with your admiral choices but I'd leave off Halsey.....too many mistakes. He would have been either courtmartialed or more likely relieved if the war hadn't ended as suddenly as it did, according to some high-level reports released after the war... He lost hundreds of men and many ships by ignoring monsoon storms---not once, but TWICE--- despite warnings and, worse, he deserted the Leyte landing GIs to sail off after a Japanese decoy force far to the north....carriers that had no planes and no pilots, which were used as a decoy to bait him into leaving. If it weren't for the skill and bravery of little Taffy 3 (a flotilla of small, slow carriers and destroyers under Adm Sprague)...and the mistake of opposing Japanese Adm. Kurita into thinking Taffy 3, because of its furious attacks on his larger fleet, was really a force larger than it really was. Instead, he turned tail and retreated!
