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Invasion Of Europe By Allies TROOPS LACK BATTLE EXPERIENCE (By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Received February 13, 7 p.m.) LONDON, February 12. “The invasion of Europe will proib-a-bTy be the anost difficult and bloody operation the British and American troops have ever undertaken,” declared Captain L. D. Gainmans, Conservative member of the House of Commons, in a speech to the Oxford University Conservative Association. “We shall have to do it with divisions with no battle experience. Our men will have to go straight into action, against Germans who have ‘been training for 10 years and have been in action five years. The number of battle-trained divisions we have is fewer than most people realize. One of the greatest troubles will be getting a footing on the Continent with largely green troops, but we have got to do it. If all goes well, the war will be over in 1944, but if .. it doesn’t it may drag on much longer.”
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 118, 14 February 1944, Page 5
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