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“Where is the coward that wouldn’t dare to fight for such a land?” - Scott |
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“I was on my belly with my Thompson pointing at a group of German soldiers when I felt a crushing blow to my back. My first thought was ‘I’ve been shot!’ I rolled over just in time to see the butt of a rifle come down on my stomach and then my face. A German had sneaked up behind me. As he delivered the blows again and again, I thought to myself, ‘beat me all you want , as long as you don’t kill me’. - First hand account of a U.S. Solider being taken prisoner in the E.T.O. |
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Pix of Soldiers & their weapons |
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Pix of soldiers with war souvenirs |
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SOUVENIR QUOTES “I took this (Luger) off a German officer. He didn’t need it anymore.” “There were bayonets laying everywhere” “I took the sight off a German 88. If I could have fit the whole thing in my pack I would have done it!” -First hand accounts of souvenir collecting. |
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“We never took an SS man prisoner.”
“We used explosives to get through the hedgerows”
“I looked inside the burned out tank to see what was left of the crew...I wish I hadn’t” |
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This section seems a bit slanted toward the operations of the Marines in the Pacific but I am well aware and grateful to the job the Army did there was well. As I get Army/Pacific Campaign photos I will add them to the appropriate sections. |
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“One night I heard rustling on our makeshift foxhole roof. I took my bayonet and thrust it upward killing a Jap soldier who had been unwittingly crawling over us.” |
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“We had just hit Iwo and I was in a shell hole taking cover. This Marine jumps in next to me and I look over and it’s my brother from another unit! I hadn’t seen him since we left home.” |
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“I had been shot in the stomach and everyone was pinned down by heavy enemy fire. I would have died there on the beach if a tank hadn’t rolled up and a crewman rescued me.” |
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“We knew we couldn’t make it back with that much damage so the pilot crash landed in a field in Belgium right on the front line. There were tanks still burning on the hill nearby” - B17 Navigator |
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“We landed in headhunter country. The night jungle suddenly came alive with scores of tribesman. Thank God one of them could read one of the languages on my blood chit.” |
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CONTAINS SOME GRAPHIC PICTURES |