I for one can say that I appreciate (understatement) the valor of those "Band of brothers". It also seems a poetic Justice. Only 4 years earlier (June 4) the army of Great Britain was leaving the beach of Dunkirk in disarray and now here they were en masse striking back.
Which leads to another thread.... Did the Allies wait on the 2nd front hoping that the Soviets would do the job or die trying? Was Stalin correct in his assumptions of the same?
