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  • Logistics, and Railroads was Re: ? Fuel that fires; the Treaty of Versailles revisited

    From pyotr filipivich@phamp@mindspring.com to soc.history.what-if on Thu Aug 15 08:30:01 2019
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    The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> on Thu, 15 Aug 2019 07:07:30 -0700
    typed in soc.history.what-if the following:
    On Wed, 14 Aug 2019 13:44:48 -0500, "Byker" <byker@do~rag.net> wrote:

    Reportedly the German military brass years before, upon seeing Buffalo >>Bill's Wild West Show, paid particular attention as to how the troupe was >>able to load all those men and animals on a train and move them to their >>next venue in short order.

    Don't know about that but do know what brought Eisenhower to attention
    as a candidate for the highest commands was an exercise in the 1920s
    where he moved a regiment from Chicago to New Orleans in what had been >thought to be an unimaginable time using both trucks and trains

    The story I recall was that the German General Staff sent
    "observers" to the US to study how the Ringling Brothers (et al) moved
    their Circus by train. Essentially, a small town is packed up,
    loaded, moved,unloaded, and unpacked, in less than a day at each end.
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