Posted by Britcheflee on February 20, 2012 at 08:20:47 from (67.187.170.181):
In Reply to: OT Stolen Valor posted by Kirk-NJ on February 19, 2012 at 12:30:26:
What is interesting is that those who really were in the thick of things often dont talk about it. If I met someone who was boasting about all the things they did might make me think something was wrong.
My Grandfather Allen Holifield never mentioned a thing about WWII - turns out he really was in the front lines during all of it. Scroll down to WWII and this was the regiment he was in:
Also a book was written after the war titled 'enshrined in stone' - he was mentioned three or four times in there and there was a story floating around the family that one time during a canal crossing a german threw a 'potato masher' into their small boat - my grandfather grabbed it and threw it overboard saving all on board - I wrote to the author mentioning this and apparently my grandfather and a couple of his surviving buddies went over to talk to the guy - turns out the story was true!!! After you read the book you just cannot believe how on earth they did it...really rough going - particularly when they crossed into German soil - apparently the Germans fought well up to that point but then they just became fanatic as they were fighting on home territory. The book is a good read but a lot of maps and diagrams which are a bit hard to make head or tail of.
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