{"id":7990,"date":"2019-11-23T07:33:28","date_gmt":"2019-11-23T06:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=7990"},"modified":"2020-12-20T15:02:06","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T14:02:06","slug":"parachute-infantry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=7990","title":{"rendered":"Parachute Infantry"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Martin went up to a British tank which had pulled back with us. &#8222;Put a shell in that church steeple,&#8220; he suggested. &#8222;The Krauts are using it as an observation post.&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>The tank commander shook his head. &#8222;I&#8217;m sorry, we can&#8217;t do it,&#8220; he replied crisply. &#8222;We have orders not to destroy too much property. Friendly country, you know.&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>And so we mounted the tanks and pulled out without leveling Nunen, as a good American armored unit would have done, for that is how wars are won\u2014not by fighting 50\u00a0percent or 30\u00a0percent or even 85\u00a0percent, but by fighting 100\u00a0percent with every weapon at your command.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"padding-left: 3em; text-indent: -3em;\">\u2014David Kenyon Webster, <em>Parachute Infantry<\/em>, (New York: Dell Publishing, <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">1994), 92-93<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin went up to a British tank which had pulled back with us. &#8222;Put a shell in that church steeple,&#8220; he suggested. &#8222;The Krauts are using it as an observation post.&#8220; The tank commander shook his head. &#8222;I&#8217;m sorry, we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=7990\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}