Richard Perle resigns

Alan Jacobson alanjacobson at sbcglobal.net
Fri Mar 28 14:50:09 PST 2003


Looking at maps, its around 200 miles from Cherbourg (taken June 27) to Paris, which was liberated Aug 24, 1944. Probably by the time the Allies made it across the Rhine, a lot of supplies were moving through Antwerp and Rotterdam, which is closer.

The drive up the Rhone River valley probably had a long supply line from Marseille. (250 miles or so to Dijon, where forces from the north and forces from the south met on Sept 12, 1944)

I am just speculating.

BTW it took the Allies two months to break out of Normandy and that was with the Germans making just about every error that could be made.

--- groschke at luminousvoid.net wrote:
> > The Iraqis are smartly attacking the supply lines
> -- the longest
> > supply lines in American history.
> >
> longer than the drive into the Reich from normandy?
>
> -gr
>



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