the battle of the Bulge begins [video=youtube;EGTaBHLTG3Y]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGTaBHLTG3Y&feature=youtu.be[/video]
I am not really sure. He was in reconnaissance. He led 20 men across a river during the Prum River Campaign to the German side to scout and the Germans got wind they were there and they had to escape back across the river. The Germans had the river covered with machine guns so my uncle, having a love for swimming, took each man across underwater. 7 survived. He never talked about it but his son nagged him and he told him once. EDIT: Found it. HQ, 6th Armored Division \\http://www.super6th.org/cmbthist/cmbtdasb.htm
same here. my dad never talked about it [video=youtube;mGysnZPV1rs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGysnZPV1rs[/video] [video=youtube;ijRkbGuRUyY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijRkbGuRUyY[/video]
A few other stories. He almost got court martial when he was sent in a reconnaissance of a town that everyone figured was a death trap so he took his men to a hill and the only thing that saved his butt was the guesses he gave were fairly correct. Not long before he passed away, I was with my mother and asked him if he ever talked about WWII. Mom broke in and said 'he doesn't like to talk about it' to which he replied, 'I love talking about it'. What he said after that was that when they were over there, they had a jeep with no windshield in winter so used their clipboards as a wind break. That was the sort of thing he talked about. After the end of the war they stationed him at a small town German post office where he shipped back firearms from. He sold many when he came back and went to college and ended up becoming a very well respected lawyer. I learned how to field strip his Lugar and he had an MP40 that he used to shoot and that he had the barrel plugged so he didn't have to pay the $200 tax stamp and registration. I called his son a few years back and he had sold both, not something I would have ever done. I ended up with a Heer dagger that he brought back.
