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Originally Posted by ZOANAS
Awesome. My grandfather was original 501st PIR, which became (with other units) the 101st Airborne, and dropped into Normandy and Holland, and was standing in the room with Anthony McCauliff when he told the Germans "Nuts" when they demanded their surrender at Bastogne.
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You'd enjoy reading a book I have:
"Easy Company Soldier"
By Sgt. Donald Malarkey
It's probably the best written of the "Band of Brothers" books...
(edit) Donald Malarkey is a regular at a pool hall Cindy & I like to play in. He told me of freezing his butt off, being shelled in the woods of Bastogne, looking up and seeing "thousands" of B-17's pass overhead, they cheering the guys of the 8th on. For all I know, then Captain Gordon Donkin, my Uncle, could have been piloting one of those planes.
I'm sure many who post here have some family history on that map...and I agree with "Puff"...too bad nothing similar for the Pacific campaign. Or at least, nothing that I know of...