One point about the Balkan campaign -- the losses on Crete took the German parachute arm out of the war as a parachute arm. That cut down their flexibility. Instead they had something like nine or 11 parachute divisions in fancy helmets and jackets, very few of which were jump-trained.
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"My intensity is intense." -- Roger Clemens
"We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." -- Winston Churchill.
"I am not a hero. The heroes are all dead. I am a survivor." -- Sgt. William Guarnere, Easy Company, 506th Parachute Regiment, 101st Airborne Division.
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