Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!cbnews!military From: nzt1939@dsacg3.dsac.dla.mil (William M. Aldo) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: battles Message-ID: <11868@cbnews.ATT.COM> Date: 1 Dec 89 04:20:28 GMT Sender: military@cbnews.ATT.COM Lines: 31 Approved: military@att.att.com From: nzt1939@dsacg3.dsac.dla.mil (William M. Aldo) [stuff deleted]..... >It would be interesting to compile a list of battles that were won by >one side doing something the other thought was physically impossible. >Besides Dien Bien Phu and the Ho CHi Minh trail, other examples include > >- Burgoyne getting guns up a mountain overlooking Ft. Ticonderoga, >- some Mainers doing the same thing to Ft. Louisburg on Cape Breton Is. > in the 17th century, >- the Germans driving tanks through the Ardennes. >- Patton moving so fast in the Battle of the Bulge. > >-- > Wm. Randolph Franklin How about U.S.S. Yorktown being severely damaged in the Battle of th Coral Sea, then being right smack in the middle of the Battle of Midway just a few days later (only to be sunk, of course). The Japanese thought she was too severely damaged to even be considered close to "operative", much less take part! --- Mark Aldo (osu-cis)!dsacg1!waldo >From the Internet: waldo@dsac.dla.mil Defense Logistics Agency Systems Automation Center | 614-238-5811 DSAC-ZTB, P.O.Box 1605, Columbus, Ohio (USA) 43216 | AV 850-5811 All views expressed are mine and not necessarily those of my employer. Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com