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Enjoyed reading it too!

Thank you!

Man, that was some reading. Thank you for posting that. Amazing!

My dad was born in 1923 and served in WW-2. He was always telling stories about growing up on a farm in Kentucky and his WW-2 experiences. My wife encouraged dad to start writing down his stories. Over the last 10 years or so of his life he would get out a yellow note pad and just write random stories that came into his head about his life. Some about the war, but other things about family history, all the cars he had owned , etc.

Dad was drafted after graduating high school in 1942 but spend most of the war working in military hospitals at bomber training bases. I know one was in Hobbs NM. He was transferred to the infantry in 1944 and sent to Europe as a replacement during the Battle of the Bulge. Once there his medical training saw him transferred to a field hospital where he spent the rest of the war driving an ambulance to the front to pick up wounded and returning them to the hospital. Dad also talked about crossing the Rhine on a pontoon bridge while the Germans were trying to shell it.

Amy, my wife, used this website to compile his stories into a book of his life including lots of photos.

https://www.blurb.com/

She finished the book in 2010, just 3 year before we lost dad. He was thrilled with it. We had several copies printed for kids, grandkids, and dad's surviving sisters. It is something I'd strongly recommend. At least get the stories down on paper. Dad has been gone almost 7 years and I often think of something I wish I could ask him. But know we did better than most people by having as much of the history down as we do.

A preview of the front and back covers along with the 1st 10 pages can be seen here. Unless you want to spend the $115 to buy a copy. Not soliciting, I'd not get a dime if you do.

https://www.blurb.com/books/1731636-the-book-of-john

Thanks for sharing your dad's story. That is one thing I regret. . . not pressing my dad for more stories from his time fighting the Japs in New Guinea. He just didn't want to talk about it, and I just pretty much let it go, even though I was and active duty Marine and later in the Navy. But that has been my experience with most of the men I met through the years who had fought WW2.

Touching that was, thank you.

Thanks for that!

Recently saw a video on UTube about the 10th AD. Think they were called the Tigers.

Enjoyed your dad's story very much . Thanks for sharing it with us.

+1 really cool post! Wish my dad had taken notes and kept a journal of his experiences in the 2nd Armored Division.
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You're welcome, fellas.

Yes, websterparish. Tiger Division. Disbanded after the war.

Got home and followed up on it..
good stuff dirt, thanks for sharing

Wow, thank you for posting.

Good stuff LD.......the pix I have of my fathers deployment paint a little different picture.

Great pics of your Dad and his buds standing down, FG!

Thanks for sharing it with us!

Very nice. Thanks for sharing...

I recall those photos from some years back.

The deeds of that generation leave us awestruck today.

Those deeds and actions of our parents were our frame of reference growing up, we were lucky.

That's quite a story, thanks for posting.