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re: Relatives that served in World War 2
Posted on 12/7/23 at 10:28 pm to MSUDawg98
Posted on 12/7/23 at 10:28 pm to MSUDawg98
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95% of his unit parachuted into Bastogne
The 101st didn’t jump into Bastogne. They were sent there in the back of Duce & a halfs.
As for combat jumps, the 101st made two such jumps in WWII:
June 1944: Operation Overlord
September 1944: Operation Market Garden
That’s not to take anything away from the combat record of the 101st, especially how they fought at Bastogne. Their stand against the 5th Panzer Army is legendary. But they arrived in the area in and around Bastogne in December 1944 by jumping from the back of GMC 2 1/2 ton trucks instead of the doors of C-47 Dakota transports.
Posted on 12/7/23 at 11:45 pm to Darth_Vader
quote:Correct, I misspoke. 95% of his unit parished in Bastogne. Back in the early 90s I drove my grandparents to his buddy's 70th birthday party. There were only 3 of them there.quote:
95% of his unit parachuted into Bastogne
The 101st didn’t jump into Bastogne. They were sent there in the back of Duce & a halfs.
As for combat jumps, the 101st made two such jumps in WWII:
June 1944: Operation Overlord
September 1944: Operation Market Garden
That side of my family is a billboard for 21andme/ancestory.com. My grandpa was born out of wedlock and my great grandmother married a gentleman who raised him as his own. Then the next generation my dad was adopted in the early 50s and about a decade later the adoption agency went up in fire so the only thing we know is that he was half German and half Austrian.
I'm big into the what-ifs of history. I doubt my parents would've met had my grandfather not mustered out before being shipped to Europe. (My dad was born 60 miles south and adopted through the Lutheran/WELS adoption agency.) Frankly in my 20s I wondered if there was a connection with the NAZI POWs who fraternized with the local women due to my dad's ancestry. I'm the last of the 50//25/25. Due to a variety of ethnicities on my wife's side (and a name change sometime in 1800s TN to avoid the law), my kids' what-ifs are off the charts.
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