On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 00:55:08 GMT, Andrew Chaplin
wrote:

Alejandro Magno wrote:

America entered the war in Europe in summer 1944 when Germany was in
constant retreat from the Eastern front since summer 1943.

guffaw

Anzio and Sangro, they're just names,
We only came to look for dames.
We are the D-Day Dodgers
Way out in Italy.

Eighth Army scroungers and their tanks,
We live in Rome, among the Yanks.
We are the D-Day Dodgers
Way out in Italy.

To the tune of Lili Marlene, by the way.

My father was one of those Yanks, being in arty and having come ashore
on day three at Anzio. He greatly admired the British forces he'd
seen in Italy and North Africa.

Mary

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Mary Shafer Retired aerospace research engineer