"If the Wermacht had had as many of these as we had deuce-and-halves, we would have been in deep trouble. As it was, the German army was hauling a great percentage of their material around with horses! Not even the Russians were doing that- but then again the Russians had our lend-lease Studebakers!"
PFC Monroe Huggins, 29th Division, 1st Army.
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"It's the job of the landsers* to complain about everything. They managed to stop complaining if we managed to procure enough Opel Blitzen to transport the whole unit to the staging point. Of course, they could also complain that the trucks weren't armored and were big targets."
Panzer Untergefreiter Willi Steiner, XIX Panzer Corps.
