Month: March 2025

FRANCE – INCONVENIENT HISTORY OF DEFEATS

Despite considerable numerical superiority in troops, tanks and air power and the Maginot Line defenses, France after it declared war on the Third Reich (September 3, 1939) lasted just six weeks against the Reich, which had occupied northern France to deter a D-Day invasion by Britain. Oh, dear! France suffered a loss of two million (killed, wounded, captured).