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31-08-16, 04:34 PM
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The short and the tall...a well-known Canadian photo....
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4sXMy2Ey8l...00/bignazi.jpg
Corporal Bob Roberts,of the North Shore (New Brunswick) Regt. was overseeing the surrender of dozens of enemy soldiers during the Battle of Normandy when the 7ft 6ins German loomed into his view. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...r-picture.html Jo
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31-08-16, 07:01 PM
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Wrong.
The Canadian soldier is Jim Butler of The North Shore Regiment. See Ken Bell's The Way We Were. I knew Jim as he retired to Petawawa and taught me to fly. As he described it, the photo was staged at Cap Gris Nez by taking the tallest German (recently taken prisoner) and have him searched by th eshortest Canadian. Phil
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