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Post by oldcajun123 on Apr 25, 2019 14:27:47 GMT -5
Duty, A Father, His Son, And The Man Who Won The War. It’s a true story about Paul Tibbets the man who flew the Enola Gay and dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. It tells about the WWII Gen , values, and how they were raised, I was raised like that. The insight was so clear, It’s an insight to a generation who never sang their praises. Best book I’ve read in a great while. My Uncle ,Fathers brother fought from Africa to Italy to Germany, was trapped in a foxhole in Germany with 2 dead Germans , water up to his chest, a sniper in a bell tower kept him there for 2 days, Patton’s tanks blew the bell tower up , wounded he was sent to England. I thought about him, while reading that book.  |
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Post by pepesdad1 on Apr 25, 2019 14:36:43 GMT -5
The greatest generation was just that...the Greatest Generation...they fought tyranny and suffered great losses...all wars suffer great losses.
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Post by stone on Apr 25, 2019 14:41:54 GMT -5
Sounds exactly like what I would like to read! Thanks for the Post.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2019 17:39:41 GMT -5
Thanks for the book recommendation, Brad. I will pick it up for sure. Just made me recall my great uncle. Basic training, a few weeks in England and then thrown into the Battle of the Hurtgen Forest. Wounded, captured and POW for the rest of the war. I knew him as a quiet but friendly man who was in a nursing home at the age of maybe 50. I wish I had understood his sacrifice when I was a young boy visiting him there. God bless you, Uncle Bud. And all who served and who are serving.
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Post by trailboss on Apr 25, 2019 17:46:49 GMT -5
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Post by toshtego on Apr 25, 2019 18:29:03 GMT -5
They were a most remarkable generation and not just the Americans. I knew a few Brits well enough to hear their stories of the war. Also, and if this is too much for anyone, so sorry. Many years ago I worked with an old German veteran of the Kriegsmarine and heard his stories of the war. His Destroyer sunk in the Baltic. His capture by the Russians, imprisonment, and the long walk home when the war ended. All the way from deep inside Russia back to Germany. Fortunately, old Ernst ("Ernie" to many of us) was a little guy who posed no threat to anyone so he was able to survive on nothing. He commented the Russian peasants were kind enough, viewing him as another unfortunate victim of the ruling class. The Red Army was the real arse pain and had to be avoided at all costs. Somehow he made it back to what was left of his old village near Dresden in the eastern (Russian) zone. Eventually, he headed west before the country was divided by walls and made his way to the USA with a wife and son. We don't think often of the other side. When we do, it is often about atrocities and heinous acts. Here was just a regular seeming guy. If he did anything bad, he did not tell me. He sure did not seem the type.
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Post by instymp on Apr 25, 2019 18:32:44 GMT -5
Brad, my grandmothers 2nd cousin may have given your Uncle a bit of grief, Field Marshal Rommel, the Desert Fox.
Read a tad about him before you rip my head off.
My Dad was and volunteered Army Air Core/ Air force. Flew paratroopers & supplies in, wounded out. Did the Rhine crossing in gliders etc & instructor.
Now that he is gone, never gave him the credit For having the guts that he had.
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