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World War II Memories: I lied Until I Even Cheered Myself Up
We sailed from Bristol on June 4 and on the sixth were off Vierville. My fate seems always to have been first in line. Our ship headed the convoy and as if that were not enough our party was to be the first ashore when contact was made with the division. Continue reading
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Tagged 101st Airborne, Army Group, Arnhem Bridge, Band of Brothers, Bastogne, Battle of Holland, Battle of Normandy, Battle of the Bulge, Bridge too Far, Carentan, General Montgomery, German, Golden Horn, History, Normandy, Normandy Invasion, Order of Battle, Paris, Screaming Eagles, World War II
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A Vast and Admirable Intelligence Dedicated to Wanton Destruction
I was walking behind an elderly couple in the woods one day as they discoursed on Hitler. He was nothing but an Abenteuer, they decided, a sordid opportunist — and they might have known it all along, fools that they had been, for couldn’t anyone see that he had dark hair instead of blond! Continue reading
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Tagged Adolf Hitler, German, Heidelberg, national socialism, Nazi, occupation of Germany, World War II, WWII, Zion Park
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