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My Dad lost a cousin on Anzio. We didn’t talk about it much. Dad scarcely talked about his own service.My gun show buddy Carl had his Jeep carrier blown out from under his ass later in the war, when the Yamato got its guns trained on it, in the battle off Samar. Again, didn’t talk much about it. As I was sitting here it occurred to me that Carl said he had to tread water for a few days after he went through that, but, that is about all I ever heard about it, other than the Navy carrier designation CVE really meant “Combustable, Vulnerable, and Expendable”, to him and his shipmates.

The Greatest Generation also happened to be the quietest. Not many left.
God bless ‘em.

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Had a great uncle who never spoke about the war at all. Learned at his funeral that he received two bronze stars and had four tanks shot out from under him. Most never survived the first I was told by a fellow who served under him for a few weeks of the war. Replacements tended not to last long and he never forgot my uncle taking care of him. He got wounded when the fourth tank got hit. Only two survived and he was one of the lucky ones. Went to hospital and came out shortly after the war ended. Funny thing was he knew every persons name and where he was from in the tank. Said he had visited each of the families and had talked with my uncle within the last year. Never knew and I was close to my uncle.

He just never spoke about it and if asked gave a short, vague answers like he could not recall or it was not very important. If fact most men I know who served never speak much about what they did or saw. Those who speak volumes are often just full of crap. There are a lot of things men do not want to clearly recall and I respect that in them.

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My father was a field medic with the tank division that liberated Dachau. He said his group were liberating the satillite camps. He too never talked much about the war. Though once it was different. I was acting as bar tender once for a cocktail party the folks had. At some point the men gathered together and were telling war stories. It was absolutly amazing, these men were everywhere in the world doing everything imaginable and even things I couldn't imagine.

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The greatest day in history .the fate of the world was a stake

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The greatest day in history was VJ day.

The senseless killing ended, for the time being.

My dad was saved from being fodder for Olympic.

I exist as a direct result of Little Boy and Fat Man, as do countless others both American and Japanese.

Overlord was a necessary piece of the puzzle to be sure but it gets more fame than others equally important.

There would have been no D-Day for example if Eagle Day (Adlertag - 13 August, 1940) had achieved it's objective.

It was a long, long road from September 1939 to August 1945.

Mankind didn't learn much if anything from it, that's the real tragedy.


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Wreath laying ceremony at the WWII Memorial on the Washington DC Mall, 06 Jun 2021, commemorating the sacrifices made by the troops in that great endeavor in Europe. This wreath was laid by the 82nd Airborne Association, and for this go-round remembered my father:
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Borderbill,
My uncle was a combat medic in the South Pacific. I believe Combat Medics, Corpsmen, and "Dust Off" crews are extra special and I'm sure all the people they saved feel the same way.

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Aldertag was the beginning of the battle of Britton.it would have never stopped america of course there were many important battles my dad was at coral sea and midway my uncle Frank and Edward were at normandy.june 6th was the beginning of the end

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Der Ami, Yeh, that's the word "combat" medic. The one thing my Dad said was good about the job was that he had his own jeep. At the end of the war when everyone knew it was over but for the formalities, he always drove in somebody elses tracks. He said when they went for the wounded they picked up everybody, Americans, Brits, Germans and Italians everybody they could and being in a tank division the burns were the worst.

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