Religion In The Comics - 035

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4. Thanks! Bibles probably got dropped at Stalingrad...

But not because anybody ordered them...

While there was no doubt that the Luftwaffe pilots gave it their all flying over Soviet airspace and artillery (they lost 500 planes in the effort), management bungled the effort rather spectacularly.

The air command refused to let the army tell it what supplies it should be delivering, and so instead of the usual food, ammunition, and fuel, some ridiculous things were delivered. One of the more normal was a case of fine bottled wine, although the bottles had frozen and exploded in the cold. Other drops included ground pepper, fish meal, and summer clothing.

But the most bewildering thing had to be the shipment on November 19, when a whole lot of condoms were dropped. Perhaps it was a cosmic message about how doomed the trapped soldiers were. Ultimately, the failed supply efforts doomed the 6th Army, and it surrendered to the Soviets in February 1943. From there, the ultimate defeat of the Third Reich was only a matter of time.

From KnowledgeNuts.com