domingo, maio 23, 2004

1944 (iii)

De que iria haver um desembarque no norte da França ninguém no comando alemão duvidava. A questão era saber onde e quando.

Erich Marcks, General der Artillerie, comandante do LXXXIV Panzer Corps e que viria a morrer em combate durante a invasão, dizia:
"Conheço bem os ingleses. Hão-de ir à igreja no Domingo e virão desembarcar aqui na Normandia numa segunda-feira"
O desembarque, contra a opinião maioritária que favorecia Calais, seria na Normandia. O dia 5 de Junho, em 1944, foi uma Segunda-feira.
# Lançado por PSA às 7:49:00 da manhã
"In North America the black bear was seen by [Samuel] Hearne swimming for hours with widely open mouth, thus catching, like a whale, insects in the water. Even in so extreme a case as this, if the supply of insects were constant, and if better adapted competitors did not already exist in the country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more and more aquatic in their structure and habits, with larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale."
Darwin, Charles; "The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection" (On the origin and transitions of organic beings with peculiar habits and structure)