Posted on 09/29/2021 11:07:37 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
MASH (my only source for Korean War information) did an episode on this. Hawkeye asked our British allies not to give tea to their wounded soldiers. Those gut-shot were getting sepsis.
Good thing Ol’ Liver Lips taught the Limeys a lesson, as they had only gone through two World Wars recently treating their wounded.
Well, we don't know that - it was just his LATEST jump.
“...maybe he just wanted a salty snack”
What I’ve been told is, he didn’t actually say, “Nuts!”
He said, “Balls!”
Great story!
Thank you for posting that wonderful story and thank you, Vincent Speranza!
Hahahah love it!
Well played!
bttt
You made my day-THANK YOU!
7.5%! Good stuff.
Sometimes, when I think I just don't feel like logging in (but do) and I come across threads like this and Yo-Yo's "When General MacAuliffe made his legendary comment “Nuts!”, maybe he just wanted a salty snack to go with Vincent Speranza’s beer..." it reminds me again of why I come back to, and pay money for, my spot on Free Republic!
Thank goodness. Sometimes the other stuff brings me so far down, I need things like this to buoy me up! (Again, a thank you to you, JR!)
Best thing I’ve read all day. Five o’clock can’t get here soon enough!
Cool :)
Keep your feet & knees together, GI!
I was going to say that we have better documentation for Sgt Speranza's feat of brauhaus heroism than their is for BGen Anthony MacAuliffe's pithy quote. I've always believe an airborne general would probably have said something unprintable when asked to surrender.
“7.5%! Good stuff.”
Some lack of clarity on if it’s beer or ale....
It says ale on the label.
“The only defenders of the city were the 101st Airborne, the all-Black 969th Artillery Battalion, and Combat Command B of the 10th Armored Division.”
Also, for what it’s worth, the Belgian do know how to brew beer.
General MacAuliffe was an artillery officer: he was in command while the CG of the 101st was home on leave.
Have my own story of illicit drinking - while I was in Vietnam, anything alcoholic was hard to get where were, but one of my buddies snagged a gallon size can of pineapple from the mess hall. We poured the juice into a large glass bottle and threw a handful of yeast into it.
Three days later, it was well fermented and we drank the whole thing while a corpsman stood by with an aid bag, in case.. Great stuff!
Hah! How are you, Chainmail? Funny, your name popped into my head while I was driving home, and for some reason it immediately translated into Charlie Mike...:)
There is something about military people and all things pineapple, including the juice. When I read your account of creating that primitive fermented brew, it brought back memories...:)
When I was a kid, my dad used to serve us pineapple juice all the time, but...since then, the only time I see it is when I seek it out. Nobody in the civilian world seems to drink it.
Just last week, my weight just dipped down below 185 for the first time in at least 35 years, and that particular weight made me think of when I was aboard ship as an 18 year old, I got sent for a month or so to the Chief’s Mess. Those guys always had the best food on the ship, and I had been 165 before I reported to duty there.
I was eating like a hog! When I was working in the scullery, I remember taking those huge shallow aluminum baking trays, full of pineapple upside down cake with the cherry in the middle of each ring on each square, and using a spatula to scrape them off into that huge garbage disposal that was at least a foot wide. As I tilted it on edge to shove them into that gaping black hole, I grab off great handfuls of that cake and shove it in my mouth, eating the whole time! (such a shame to put it down the disposal, but...that was what was done. I guess they didn’t want to keep it around or share it with anyone else)
Then one day, as I sat eating breakfast, I looked down towards my feet and realized with horror...I had a huge gut! I weighed myself, and I weighed 185 lbs!!!!
Well, when I got out of Mess Hall duty, I did drop back to about 170, but my days of being 165 were gone forever!
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