I don’t know. I kind of have to question just how good a soldier he really was.

I mean the guy enlisted in 1933, so he was a career soldier (not to mention a bit older than the others). He was discharged in 1945 at the end of the war as an E-2 Private. 12 years, no promotions. And it’s not like he was promoted and then busted down for infractions. NO PROMOTIONS. EVER.

You know how hard that is to do? Especially with combat experience? You have to be a major 8-ball to do that.

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Posted by extremetigerfanatic

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Posted on 5/31/18 at 3:09 pm to Godfather1

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Didn't he write his unpublished memoirs and kept notes and a diary shortly after the war

Yea he did. A number of them did. I was just making the point that all recollections are imperfect and Ambrose leaned into Webster’s more than any other source. I think probably due to fact that he talked Webster’s widow into allowing him to use those memoirs to release a book that Ambrose wrote and had a stake in. Point being it wasn’t quite the culmination of all different viewpoints as Ambrose made it out to be. It leaned more to the source he thought was the most accurate.
But again all recollections aren’t necessarily correct. I can’t remember without googling it but there was a guy in Easy, I think it might have been that guy that went “battle blind” that was shot in the neck and when Ambrose interviewed some of the men they all stated that they thought he died, so that’s what they portrayed, when in reality he went back stateside and recovered and got married had kids etc. it’s just the men never knew.

It’s all relative and doesn’t change the nature of the book or show.

This post was edited on 5/31/18 at 3:10 pm

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