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Show "Two times we had Allies who held and bled the enemy in his initial onslaughts giving us precious pre-cious interval in which to mount up the force that would crush him. Yet we are lucky. The fact is that we won both times and both times at tremendous cost, but the graph lines of our losses in each contest were to be reckoned finally in terms of peacetime apathy and widespread unwillingness to face the facts of preparedness." Lt. Gen. R.obert L. Eichelberger, Nov. 1, 1947, Cincinnati, Ohio. |