710ltd2002
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Two sided, printed on silk. I never knew these existed. Most offered for sale on the net look (fortunately for the original owner) like they were never unfolded. Anyone know more about these? Dave
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Two sided, printed on silk. I never knew these existed. Most offered for sale on the net look (fortunately for the original owner) like they were never unfolded. Anyone know more about these? Dave
Kansas4010
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I found something similar in my dads stuff after he died. It's been several years ago so I can't remember to many details. I know it's put up in a cedar chest now. He was a truck driver during the war.
oldproudvet
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The big Studebaker I bet
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710ltd2002
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I dont want to pry, but I wonder if he talked about his time as a POW and how he was treated?
Kansas4010
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He never talked about it very much and he died when I was 10. According to my mom he was in the infantry in Africa. While in Europe they were asking for volunteers to drive trucks. He volunteered saying he'd rather drive to Germany than walk. They asked if he could drive a truck and he told them I don't know, never drove one before. I can drive a team of horses. They told him that was close enough.
Kelly in tx
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A good friend, now deceased, was captured during the battle of the bulge. He once told the story of how little they got to eat and how hungry they were. Once in line to get his soup (mostly water), he heard a clunk and he was delighted because he knew it'd be a bit of bone he could suck on for nourishment. When he got to it, it turned out to be a horse's tooth. He was mighty skinny by the end of the war.
He never talked when we were young and my mom warned us not to ask. After we had grown and in his later years he talked about it some. He wasn't abused physically, but mentally the threat of execution was always there. He landed in a sugarbeet field almost like back home and was picked up by peasants and turned over to the Nazis. They took his nice sheepswool winter flight coat but let him keep his Rosary. They weren't given much food or firewood but some Red Cross things made it in. All his crew made it out alive but his radio man was a Jew. He was picked up in a little town and summarily shot in the head by a Nazi officer. They didn't find out until after the war. There are more details I could share that would be too many for this forum. He lost much memory in the end of his life but the details of that day and those months were sharp almost until the day he died.
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710ltd2002
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I have so much respect for the men and women of every generation who serve. Its so tragic how many lost their young lives or were terrorized and abused by captors.
My dad was in the Army, mostly in northern Italy and on into Germany. He, like others, never really shared any details, only to say he did what he had to do. I found out later, after his death, some of what he was involved with.
But, the point of the post is a couple of things: He was issued a drivers license after telling them he could drive a tractor. Later, on being discharged and back home in Texas, his military license was converted to a Texas DL. He never had to take a test to drive.
I had an older relative who served in France during WW1. His discharge papers stated his duty while in the service was that of driver. Of mule teams, that is....
But, the point of the post is a couple of things: He was issued a drivers license after telling them he could drive a tractor. Later, on being discharged and back home in Texas, his military license was converted to a Texas DL. He never had to take a test to drive.
I had an older relative who served in France during WW1. His discharge papers stated his duty while in the service was that of driver. Of mule teams, that is....
GermantownGreen
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X2 big thank yous to all those who served there.
Get your flag ready to go, June 14th....
GG
Get your flag ready to go, June 14th....
GG
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