Montgomery Speaks
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Montgomery Speaks
He asked to speak to all the artillery and
attached signals in the 3rd Division.
And we met him at a place called
Bewley Airport in Hampshire and
he climbed up on the hood of his car.
He said, “I have never in all my years
in the army seen so many gunners
in one place at one time,” and he said,
“that is good because we are
going to have a big gun fight!”
And he said, “Don’t tell this to the
infantry but the artillery win my battles.”
And he said, “I am as tired of this war
as I know you are but we are going
to see this thing through together and
we are going over and knock
the Germans for six right out of France.”
And that’s the first indication we had that
France would be the actual
target of this fight, you know.
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