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| Battle of the Bulge - 75 Years Ago |
| 2019-12-16 |
| Posted by:Yosemite Sam |
| #7 My wife's father was in the 82nd Airborne and dropped into Normandy. He was at the Bulge as well. Won a Silver Star, Bronze Star, and Purple Heart. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2019-12-16 15:17 |
| #6 Yeah, in some cases a handful of guys with a 57mm anti-tank gun delayed an SS tank column, but did they use the correct pronouns? "Yo -- do you guys prefer du, ihr or sie?" |
| Posted by: Matt 2019-12-16 14:29 |
| #5 Not being taught these days The Bulge, Tet, the 507th in Iraq. Heck the military doesn't teach it today. In that, there occurs events in which there are no cooks, no clerks, no maintenance personnel, just plain infantry. If you're not infantry, then you are a POW or dead. The enemy sets the standards on the battlefield not ribboned politicians in or out of uniform. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-12-16 13:36 |
| #4 My godfather (my dad's youngest brother) fought in the Battle of the Bulge- at age 18. He dropped out of high school to enlist. And kids today need puppies and therapy if someone expresses a contrary opinion. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2019-12-16 12:51 |
| #3 My Uncle Bob was in the 106th Division and was captured just before Christmas. He spent the rest of the war in a POW camp and nearly starved. When the camp was taken by US forces at the end of the war he weighed less than 100lbs. If not for the Red Cross packages that we not stolen by the German guards, he said they would have not survived. He never missed a meal for the rest of his life and at the end of his life showed his family the Bible he kept during captivity. Every page edge was filled with descriptions of food and meals he remembered. He was still 19 when he was captured and even after coming home on a troopship with a mess deck open 24/7 for the repatriated prisoners still was described by my grandmother when she first saw him at Walter Reed as skeletal. |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2019-12-16 12:27 |
| #2 Good to see this post. Not being taught these days. This keeps the history alive. |
| Posted by: Dale 2019-12-16 12:14 |
| #1 Having 3 halftracks shot out under him near Bastogne, my uncle John quickly learned the value of marching silently deep in the woods. That knowledge served him well until the war ended and he was deep in the Ruhr. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2019-12-16 11:35 |