“NUTS!” SAID GENERAL
Brigadier - general Anthony C. McAuliffe’s retort of “Nuts!” to the German demand that his besieged 101st Airborne Division give up at Bastogne will probably find its niche in history with other famous fighting words ot men who refused to surrender, says a special correspondent of the New York Times. General McAuliffe's retort, so typically American, that it baffled the Germans and French, is perhaps the shortest, most flippant refusal to surrender ever uttered by an American officer.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25798, 20 March 1945, Page 7
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80“NUTS!” SAID GENERAL Otago Daily Times, Issue 25798, 20 March 1945, Page 7
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