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To: niteowl77

Your uncle wrote about his experiences?


16 posted on 09/14/2014 9:05:48 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: GeronL
Your uncle wrote about his experiences?

No, he didn't even talk much about it. Over the years, I pieced together bits and pieces of his "war" that I'd pick up from family members or overheard when the grownups were talking; working from there, I read up on the operation, starting at the obvious and working my way to the obscure. Shortly before he passed away, he did talk in more detail about it with his younger brother (my dad), apparently coming to terms with some things and even contemplating a trip to Europe.

One has to dig to find information about formations like 2/47 Inf, while books about more "glamourous" units fill entire bookcases. In a bit of irony, a lot of obscure information about American forces can be found in translations of German sources. Timm Haasler's "Hold the Westwall" is a good example: it is a book detailing one particular panzer brigade's role at the Belgian/German border and Siegfried Line during September of 1944, and in doing so providing much information about American units.

For at least one second scout who survived from D+4 to V-E Day despite twice being seriously wounded, the experience in "The Forest" was the worst of the worst.

Mr. niteowl77

18 posted on 09/14/2014 10:29:41 AM PDT by niteowl77 (The five stages of Progressive persuasion: lecture, nudge, shove, arrest, liquidate.)
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