The Most Decorated Woman Soldier of WWII has died

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14. That and it's not like anyone else fared better taking the Wehrmacht on the chin like that

The only country to take a full operational-scale blitzkrieg dead on on land and not get decisively defeated was the Soviet Union, and look how that went until the winter started to show up.

Sure, France went down, but it took Germany six weeks,a third of their aircraft and a quarter of their armor knocked out, and some two hundred thousand casualties to do it, and that coming from a country that was still exhausted from the First World War. People who toss around French surrender jokes tend to miss some of the numbers like that.