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re: 81 years ago yesterday, Easy Company makes an all out charge on the SS in Holland
Posted on 10/6/25 at 7:43 pm to Longhorn Actual
Posted on 10/6/25 at 7:43 pm to Longhorn Actual
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I’m not sure the run of the mill German soldier was “evil.”
Yeah in fact the soldiers of Easy even say as much.. commenting on how theyd probably get along fine if they met in any other context.. Your average Wehrmacht soldier was just serving their country and tryng to provide for their families .. the nazis were absolutely evil but marking an entire nation of people as evil is pretty reductive.
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Posted on 10/6/25 at 8:02 pm to boxcarbarney
If they had not run into that German company and routed them, headquarters would have been overrun. Sink would have been killed or captured along with all the leadership. The entire history of the 101st would have been changed without Sink and many of the other officers at Bastogne.That patrol and their fortunate timing prevented disastrous consequences.
Posted on 10/6/25 at 8:17 pm to boxcarbarney
Back in 92 (i think) Ambrose brought several of those guys to a conference he put on at a hotel on St. Charles. It was The Pontchartrain I believe. The book had just been released that Spring and i was taking Ambrose’s WW2 class at UNO that semester. he hadn’t taught it in a long time but decided to do it one more time. it was incredible.
at the conference, I met Winters, Lipton, (snow white hair) and Walter Gordon. Gordon lived in Waveland or Bay St. louis at the time. Gordon is the one who was shot in the neck while manning a machine gun during an attack in Bastogne. That’s when he said to Lipton “Lip, you’re standing on my hand.”
Gordon rolled up in a 27 foot long Oldsmobile. and got out of the passenger side onto the curb. He was large and walked with a cane by this time.
They all signed my book and it’s a prized possession. Winters signed it “hang tough”. His famous saying.
Because of that class, I also met German Panzer commander Hans Von Luck who fought at Normandy and Major John Howard with the British 6th Airborne who took Pegasus Bridge. And George Gay, who was shot down at Midway and watched the entire battle while floating in the Pacific until he was picked up.
it was a great class!
at the conference, I met Winters, Lipton, (snow white hair) and Walter Gordon. Gordon lived in Waveland or Bay St. louis at the time. Gordon is the one who was shot in the neck while manning a machine gun during an attack in Bastogne. That’s when he said to Lipton “Lip, you’re standing on my hand.”
Gordon rolled up in a 27 foot long Oldsmobile. and got out of the passenger side onto the curb. He was large and walked with a cane by this time.
They all signed my book and it’s a prized possession. Winters signed it “hang tough”. His famous saying.
Because of that class, I also met German Panzer commander Hans Von Luck who fought at Normandy and Major John Howard with the British 6th Airborne who took Pegasus Bridge. And George Gay, who was shot down at Midway and watched the entire battle while floating in the Pacific until he was picked up.
it was a great class!
This post was edited on 10/6/25 at 8:18 pm
Posted on 10/6/25 at 8:19 pm to Lou Loomis
Yeah let’s go kill our fellow whites so we can deliver our county to the Globohomo cause
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