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re: December 23, 1944 - The Siege of Bastogne Begins
Posted on 12/23/23 at 7:13 pm to Jim Rockford
Posted on 12/23/23 at 7:13 pm to Jim Rockford
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One of our clients who died this year was a veteran of the Bulge. He was trained as a combat engineer but they needed infantry replacements so they handed him a BAR and sent him straight into the line. All he ever said about it was his ears sure were cold.
My grandfather was in the Bulge with Patton's army. He was with a regimental sout platoon. All he ever talked about was how cold it was. Till the day he died I never saw that man without a sweater and a knit cap if it got below 60 degrees. He said he swore to himself that he would never in his life be cold again.
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Posted on 12/23/23 at 8:22 pm to Scuttle But
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My grandfather was in the Bulge with Patton's army. He was with a regimental sout platoon.
My maternal grandfather was a tanker in the 4th Armor Div. under Patton. It was 4th Armor that broke through to relieve the encircled 101st Airborne in Bastogne. I wish I could have met him and heard some of his stories. But he died three years before I was born.
Posted on 12/23/23 at 9:07 pm to Scuttle But
My grandfather nearly froze to death in the Bulge. Both of his hands and feet were permanently disfigured from the frostbite they sustained, he could still hold a saw and hammer and worked as a carpenter for the 50+ years after returning home. He never wanted to talk much about his experiences, as a first generation immigrant from Germany I believe he thought often about how he could have been on the other side of the lines if not for a decision or two by his parents a couple decades earlier.
Posted on 12/23/23 at 10:56 pm to Scuttle But
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My grandfather was in the Bulge with Patton's army. He was with a regimental sout platoon. All he ever talked about was how cold it was. Till the day he died I never saw that man without a sweater and a knit cap if it got below 60 degrees. He said he swore to himself that he would never in his life be cold again.
I had a great uncle that was the exact opposite. No matter how cold it was he would be hunting in a pair of old briar britches and a flannel shirt. When you asked if he was cold he always answered “ Hell boy, I ain’t been cold since January of 45 in Belgium”.
As a kid I always thought it was an odd answer. I was grown and he was dead and gone before I understood what he was talking about.
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