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Originally Posted by Von Manteuffel
I only hope they allowed me a last cigarette before I faced the firing-squad.
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Reminds me of a scene out of the movie 'The Bridge at Remagen' when Major Paul Kreuger (Robert Vaughn) is offered a last cigarette before being shot by firing squad for not sucessfully defending the bridge. And he never got to finish it either!
Nemo
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"I'm afraid there is no disguising the fact that King's obsession with the Pacific and the Battle of Washington cost us dear in the Battle of the Atlantic".
Sir John Slessor GCB, DSO, MC, DL
AOC-in-C Coastal Command RAF
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