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Gotthard Heinrici might be the most underrated German general of WW2. He was arguably the best defensive commander of the war, and most people have never heard of him.
He was small, quiet, and devoutly religious, which made him unpopular with the Nazi Party. His troops called him "our poison dwarf."
Heinrici spent most of the war on the Eastern Front, where he perfected a simple trick. When his intelligence signaled a Soviet offensive was coming, he would quietly pull his men out of the front line the night before. The Soviet artillery would spend hours pounding empty trenches. Then the attacking infantry would walk forward into his real defensive line, fully intact.
In late 1943 and early 1944, his 4th Army held off a series of major Soviet offensives near Orsha despite being badly outnumbered.
By March 1945, the Red Army was on the Oder River, about 50 miles from Berlin. Hitler had given command of the army group defending that sector to Heinrich Himmler, who had no real military experience and was out of his depth. Heinrici was brought in to replace him.
On April 16, Marshal Zhukov launched his assault on the Seelow Heights with one of the largest artillery barrages in history, backed by searchlights meant to blind the defenders.
Heinrici had done it again. He'd pulled his men back the night before. The barrage hit mostly empty ground. The searchlights reflected off the smoke and dust and blinded Zhukov's own troops. A battle the Soviets expected to win quickly took three days and cost them tens of thousands of dead.
But Heinrici had no illusions. The war was lost. He refused to throw away his men defending Berlin street by street, and kept steering his forces west so they could surrender to the Americans and British instead of the Soviets.
Hitler's high command relieved him of command days before the end.
He spent three years as a POW and lived until 1971. The man who made the Red Army pay for every mile to Berlin is barely a footnote today.
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April 1972. Air Force navigator Lt. Col. Iceal Hambleton is shot down behind North Vietnamese lines during the Easter Offensive. The air rescue attempts are a catastrophe. Five more aircraft are lost and at least 11 more airmen are killed trying to reach him.
So the Navy sends one SEAL, Lt. Tom Norris, with five South Vietnamese commandos, to go get him on foot.
One of them was Petty Officer Nguyen Van Kiet, a 27-year-old frogman from the South Vietnamese Navy.
They rescued one downed pilot from the river first. But as they pushed deeper to reach Hambleton, two of the commandos refused to go on. They would not risk their lives following an American to save an American.
Norris was ready to go alone. Kiet volunteered to go with him.
On the night of April 12, the two men found a deserted village, put on local fishermen's clothes, and took an abandoned sampan up the river in thick fog. North Vietnamese troops and tanks lined the shore.
They rowed right past Hambleton in the dark and came out under the Cam Lo bridge. They turned around and found him in a clump of bushes, alive but half delirious after 11 days behind enemy lines.
The sun was coming up. They hid him in the bottom of the boat under bamboo and started back downriver in daylight.
North Vietnamese soldiers spotted them and opened fire. Kiet pulled the sampan behind a riverbank and hid it while Norris called in air strikes. They made it out.
Norris received the Medal of Honor. Kiet received the Navy Cross, the only South Vietnamese sailor ever awarded it.
He later moved to Seattle, became an American citizen, and worked at Boeing for nearly 20 years.
Uncle Beege retweeted
Greschner doesn't get enough credit for being as good a player as he was.
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Michael Ontkean earned a hockey scholarship to the University of New Hampshire, a Division I program playing in the ECAC.
In his 3 years on the varsity program, he scored 63 goals and 111 points in 85 games played. He led the team in goal scoring his junior year with 30 goals.
Uncle Beege retweeted
The late, great, crazy genius PETER SELLERS — born 101yrs ago today — tells a Michael Caine story on The Late Late Show in 1970.
Cue Caine & Co instantly and brilliantly brought to life…
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In Casino, the Japanese “billionaire cheapskate” K.K. Ichikawa - who wins $2 million at the Tangiers before Sam Rothstein sabotages his flight home and lures him back to the casino - was based on real Tokyo real-estate mogul and legendary high roller Akio Kashiwagi.
Known as “The Warrior,” Kashiwagi was one of the most notorious baccarat whales of the late twentieth century, reputedly playing over “$30,000 a hand” and nearly bankrupting several casinos. And like Ichikawa, he was also infamously cheap, reportedly taking “free soap, shampoo and towels” from luxury hotel suites.
However, the real-life Sam Rothstein, Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal, never crossed paths with Kashiwagi. Their stories belong to different eras: Kashiwagi’s gambling spree peaked in the late 80s and early 90s, long after Rosenthal had been barred from the casino industry.
The showdown between Ichikawa and Rothstein in Casino was instead loosely inspired by Kashiwagi’s infamous high-stakes clash with real-estate mogul and future U.S. president Donald Trump.
In February 1990, Donald Trump flew Akio Kashiwagi to Trump Plaza in Atlantic City, put him up in an ocean-view penthouse, and reserved a private baccarat table just for him. Kashiwagi arrived with $6 million and received another $6 million in credit, but after two days he left up $6.2 million.
Unwilling to accept the loss, Trump lured Kashiwagi back on terms that made it almost impossible for him to win again. He offered an informal “freeze-out” agreement: Kashiwagi would bring $12 million to the table and play until he had either doubled it or lost everything.
Knowing the odds would eventually swing back in the house’s favor over a long enough session, Trump counted on Kashiwagi being unable to resist the challenge. He took the bait. And after a brutal weeklong marathon of high-stakes baccarat, Kashiwagi went from being up millions to facing a staggering $10 million loss.
However, Kashiwagi’s real troubles were only just beginning.
After the Japanese asset-price bubble exploded, Kashiwagi’s company, Kashiwagi Shoji, buckled under the strain of its highly leveraged real-estate loans and collapsed as land values cratered. It’s also widely believed that he defaulted on high-interest debts connected to yakuza groups.
On January 3, 1992, the 54‑year‑old developer was found dead in the kitchen of his home, stabbed repeatedly with what investigators believed to be a samurai sword. To this day, his murder remains unsolved.
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During your takeaway, pay attention to 2 things...
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Many golfers who come over the top have transition backwards. They feel like the downswing starts with rotation, so they spin open from the top, throwing the club out and over the plane. Hello, slice.
The fix isn’t no rotation. It’s better sequence. Starting the downswing with a lateral move toward the target not only shifts pressure into the lead side, it helps shallow the club.
Now rotation becomes an asset. With the club shallow, a player can rotate as aggressively as they want and the path stays on plane. The lateral shift earns the right to turn hard.
This is one of the ways we teach coaches to use force plate data in our advanced seminars. When we see an over-the-top pattern and lateral force is low or late, we start cues from the ground up.
🎥: @meandmygolf
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“Romeo & Juliet” - Dire Straits nitter.cf/JVPALT1/status/2066380…
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Ted Williams and John Glenn during the Korean War in 1953. Williams served as Glenn’s wingman on nearly 40 combat missions, forging a friendship that began in combat and lasted for more than 50 years.
