n never reached the level of his abilities, also because of his continuous bucking of Army policy before congressional commitees, his protests against Eisenhower's policy of massive retaliation caught the ire of the top brass, and resigned from the Army in 1958. Later as a civilian Gaven testified in front of the Congress on his defensive plan of enclaves in Vietnam, in which the Ambassador Maxwell Taylor called defeatist, his good points was to develop a air calvary of helocopter gun ships.
--paratrooper commander, during a drinking party in a Paris hotel, it wasn't the sex that bothered the brass, it was the personal reputation of this liberal woman, and this was the beginning of losing the trust of the high Brass like Maxwell Taylor, and Admiral Radford, including the Secretary of Defense Wilson. General Gavin was in the high echelon of the Army, and allowed himself to be seen in company of a lover of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, and a communist sympathizer to boot!. General Gave
and British POW'S, many were captured during the airwars over Germany, and the Germans held over 14,000 prisoners after the Battle of the Bulge.. These prisoners were housed in heated barracks, were given regular rations of hot food, and allowed the Red Cross to deliver mail and packages to the men.. Gellhorn compromised a brave good General in Slim Jim Gaven, the Commander of the 82nd airborne division, and jumped with the 505th over Normandy on June 5th 1944. Gellhorn seduced the great---
they were told the city was a safe haven, since there were no military targets to bomb. More people died in Dresden, than the atomic bombings of Hiroshima, and Nagazaki. And this woman of hate could only comment about the dead Jews, who most died from starvation, and disease, not about the fire bombings of German cities, whose only mission was to kill people during the last week of the war. Where the German military had control, they acted humanely. A good example are the thousands of American--
I have to say Martha Gellhorn was a gifted writer, and a communist sympathizer, and a admirer of Stalin, and a committed Zionist, who's loyality was to Israel. Here was a classic German beauty, who hates her fathers homeland, because of the horrors she seen at Dachau. Germany was in shambles in 1945. Horror was everywhere, hundreds of thousands of German civilians were slaughtered in the terror bombings of German cities. The revenge bombings of Dresden murdered over 200,000 innocent civilians, -
I totally agree with adusc83
Aceber1 6 months ago
This pretty much misses the point of Martha Gellhorn.
adusc83 1 year ago
n never reached the level of his abilities, also because of his continuous bucking of Army policy before congressional commitees, his protests against Eisenhower's policy of massive retaliation caught the ire of the top brass, and resigned from the Army in 1958. Later as a civilian Gaven testified in front of the Congress on his defensive plan of enclaves in Vietnam, in which the Ambassador Maxwell Taylor called defeatist, his good points was to develop a air calvary of helocopter gun ships.
inchon778 2 years ago
--paratrooper commander, during a drinking party in a Paris hotel, it wasn't the sex that bothered the brass, it was the personal reputation of this liberal woman, and this was the beginning of losing the trust of the high Brass like Maxwell Taylor, and Admiral Radford, including the Secretary of Defense Wilson. General Gavin was in the high echelon of the Army, and allowed himself to be seen in company of a lover of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, and a communist sympathizer to boot!. General Gave
inchon778 2 years ago
and British POW'S, many were captured during the airwars over Germany, and the Germans held over 14,000 prisoners after the Battle of the Bulge.. These prisoners were housed in heated barracks, were given regular rations of hot food, and allowed the Red Cross to deliver mail and packages to the men.. Gellhorn compromised a brave good General in Slim Jim Gaven, the Commander of the 82nd airborne division, and jumped with the 505th over Normandy on June 5th 1944. Gellhorn seduced the great---
inchon778 2 years ago
they were told the city was a safe haven, since there were no military targets to bomb. More people died in Dresden, than the atomic bombings of Hiroshima, and Nagazaki. And this woman of hate could only comment about the dead Jews, who most died from starvation, and disease, not about the fire bombings of German cities, whose only mission was to kill people during the last week of the war. Where the German military had control, they acted humanely. A good example are the thousands of American--
inchon778 2 years ago
I have to say Martha Gellhorn was a gifted writer, and a communist sympathizer, and a admirer of Stalin, and a committed Zionist, who's loyality was to Israel. Here was a classic German beauty, who hates her fathers homeland, because of the horrors she seen at Dachau. Germany was in shambles in 1945. Horror was everywhere, hundreds of thousands of German civilians were slaughtered in the terror bombings of German cities. The revenge bombings of Dresden murdered over 200,000 innocent civilians, -
inchon778 2 years ago