Warriors and sportsmen

[jeepnstein]

31. Reminds me of a story...

an old vet told me once. He was in the Normandy invasion but in one of the later waves. He said that the British troops were "off" as he put it. As an example he described in great detail an atrocity a group of them committed against a German prisoner because their tea kettle got blown up. They built their fire on top of a bit of unexploded ordnance. He said the British men were already spent by the time they got to Normandy and everything they did took longer because of it. By comparison the Americans hadn't really experienced war the way the British had and seemed more eager. His observation was that once the British made it to the fight they were merciless in ways that kind of shocked him at times.