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not many of these hero's left. I went to Bastogne. Got chills walking around. Every road leading in to town had a turret off a Sherman.
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Thank you for sharing this. My grandfather fought in the Battle of the Bulge and talks about Bastogne quite often. He ended up losing an arm in the battle.
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That was fascinating..... Thanks for posting. I wish there were more of those oral history things around. Even if they are not on video and just on audio tapes. I regret not sitting down with my late father and a couple uncles with a tape recorder. I always liked my dad's description of what the English Channel looked like at first light on D-Day,; he was a 19 year old kid aboard a light cruiser. Or the 20-21 year old German American kid ( I met him in his later years) that was a ball turret gunner on a B-17. In the middle of a firefight he suddenly wondered if he was related to any of those German guys shooting at him.
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That is a great story, thanks for posting.
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Great story. My Dad was there, too. Loved the area and went back about 15 years ago before he passed.
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great story, thanks for posting
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That is absolutely awesome. What a guy 😊
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The guy had a hard time at certain points, I can understand, I wouldn't want to relive that either.
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Great story. I had a great uncle who told me about the Calvados in Normandy and how they wanted to get it fast so they shot a hole in the barrel and put a bucket underneath. He also told me how they were in Pilsen when the war ended and captured a warehouse full of schnapps, wine, beer, etc. "We had a good time in Pilsen Czechoslovakia"!
He was in the Battle of the Bulge, told me the tail of his coat got shot up. He wouldn't say much about that sort of stuff. His medical training saved his life his first day back in the coal mines.
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My dad was Army in the Japanese islands for the full war. He enlisted in November 41. He didnt talk about it much and I wish I had asked him more about it. His parents and one older brother were from Italy and he had 2 first cousins in the Italian army one of which was a US citizen, he was born and grew up with in the USA but had gone back to Italy with his father and while there was forced into the army, he survived but the other cousin didnt. Not sure how my dad would have tuned out if he had been sent to Italy to fight. He definitely had no love for the Japs though.
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one of my wife's uncles was there with the 101st Airborne. A second was with Patton's relief troops. Evidently the one was leaving on the same road as his brother who was coming in. Neither saw each other, or even knew that they had a brother involved until weeks later. Both survived and lived long fruitful lives.
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My neighbor fought in WWII, still kicking in his late 90s, Walter Kuralt. Charles Kuralt was his cousin.
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Great story, esp that he finds out about what happened after with the Airborne Beer.
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AZmark, Leonoro's Italian restaurant in Charleston, WV has some of the same history. The second generation owner, Frank, was born in Cabin Creek, WV. His dad was a coal miner. When the company and union got to fighting his dad took them back to Italy. When the war started, Frank, came back to WV. Since he was a citizen, Frank was drafted. He no speaka the English then. Frank was sent to the Aleutians and kept there until the war ended. Frank told me it was cold and his nose was froze and his toes were froze but there were Italians that were cooks and they got him assigned in the kitchen with them. Frank had family that fought in the Italian army during the war. Frank's sons and grand children run the business.
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My mother in law was a pbx operator in Headquarters, 8th and 9th Army Air Corp when it was moved from Bushy Park, England to St. Germaine, France about a month after D-Day. She said when intelligence got wind of all the German movements, they started issuing rifles to every one, including the cooks and the clerks. She told them she was from Texas and could shoot a rifle if they'd give her one, but USSTAF flew her and the other women in the outfit back to England until the Bulge was over, them flew them back into France. I asked her if she ever saw any of those famous generals like Gen. Spaatz and she said she knew and talked to them every day. Asked her what her clearance was and she said " It was a little above Top Secret ". She was kind of tight lipped about her service, as she never told my wife or her son very much about what she did over there. I, fortunately, managed to get her talking about her experiences after a while.
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Talked to my 27 yr old son about this...
ya know the thought hit me. many guys on the campfire are my age range... I'm 69 now...
Back in the 50s and 60s growing up, it seemed like every male adult we knew were WW 2 vets, our uncles, dads, friends you played with their dads and uncles were all WW 2 vets also.. if not WW2, then they were Korean War vets.... many of our granddads and their brothers were all WW 1 vets...
as kids we took that for granted, and never thought nothing of it..
many of them are now gone, and the few left were vets due to Korea, and they also are fading fast... The one's taking their places, of being veterans in the twilights of their lives are now Vietnam Vets. My step dad is now 90, he spent 49 months in Vietnam flying CIA missions, as part of the Black Birds, unmarked C 130s
now among us are plenty of Veterans of the Middle East conflicts...doesn't take long, they will be the Veterans among us who will be growing old and starting to pass into the twilight of their lives...
While they are still around us... GodBless the men, who were there during our nation's hour of need, who put their lives on the line for those who don't even give them a thought in their daily lives... and even the women who have served in WW 2, Korea, Vietnam and now in the Middle East... hear their stories while you can, and before their service becomes " no big deal"... it is a big deal, to each of us who hold them and their service dear.....
as a corpsman in a military hospital just post Vietnam, I have patents who have served as far back as the Spanish American War, "Chased Ponco Via from one end of Mexico to the other", WW1, WW2, Korea and Vietnam Talked to thousands of these guys while serving them and their medical needs during my time in the military. I feel so fortunate for that, because 95% of these guys are no longer with us.. I am blessed for being able to hear their stories and lies ( God Bless em) from their own mouths. I never served in combat, but my time I served, I was blessed beyond belief for being able to hear their stories, told by older men, from their times of service in their youth. I thank God for that .
Dave, thanks for posting the video....
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Wow.......incredible video
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