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**NeroASERCH** · 06-27-2009, 12:44 AM

It was an Ulsterman Blair Maine who helped form the Long Range Desert Group later the Special Air Service which helped begin the defeat of Hitler. He went on to become the most decorated soldier in the British Army during WWII and as Churchill stated

"Before Alamein there were no victories, after Alamein there were no defeats" Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery (Also an Ulsterman) the architect of that victory, orders to his troops after Churchill put him in charge in August 1942 are as revelant for Ulster Scots today as when he issued them:-

"I then cancelled orders about further withdrawals. I issued new orders that if Rommel attacked we would fight him on ground where we now stood: There would be no withdrawal and NO SURRENDER!" It is also then fitting that it was to this Loyal Ulsterman that the nazis finally surrendered at Luneberg Heath on 3rd May 1945

"It was here in Northern Ireland that the American Army first began to concentrate for our share in the attack upon the citadel of continental Europe. From here started the long, hard march to Allied victory. Without Northern Ireland I do not see how the American Forces could have been concentrated to begin the invasion of Europe. If Ulster had not been a definite, co-operative part of the British Empire and had not been available for our use, I do not see how the build-up could have been carried out in England."
- PRESIDENT EISENHOWER.

06-27-2009, 12:44 AM	#9
NeroASERCH Join Date Jul 2006 Posts 5,147 Senior Member	It was an Ulsterman Blair Maine who helped form the Long Range Desert Group later the Special Air Service which helped begin the defeat of Hitler. He went on to become the most decorated soldier in the British Army during WWII and as Churchill stated "Before Alamein there were no victories, after Alamein there were no defeats" Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery (Also an Ulsterman) the architect of that victory, orders to his troops after Churchill put him in charge in August 1942 are as revelant for Ulster Scots today as when he issued them:- "I then cancelled orders about further withdrawals. I issued new orders that if Rommel attacked we would fight him on ground where we now stood: There would be no withdrawal and NO SURRENDER!" It is also then fitting that it was to this Loyal Ulsterman that the nazis finally surrendered at Luneberg Heath on 3rd May 1945 "It was here in Northern Ireland that the American Army first began to concentrate for our share in the attack upon the citadel of continental Europe. From here started the long, hard march to Allied victory. Without Northern Ireland I do not see how the American Forces could have been concentrated to begin the invasion of Europe. If Ulster had not been a definite, co-operative part of the British Empire and had not been available for our use, I do not see how the build-up could have been carried out in England." - PRESIDENT EISENHOWER.
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