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Old 12-26-2010, 06:36 AM
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Originally Posted by Legbreaker View Post
I think it's fairly obvious that getting the dependants out was well down the list of priorities.
Winning the war, or at least getting the soldiers on the ground and into their defensive positions is definitely the priority.
Oh no doubt at all; but from a morale standpoint only, they would have tried to evac the dependents...its just flying them out of one of the major air bases in Germany always struck me as putting non-combatants right in the center of the bullseye.
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