Merry Christmas to all of you ! !

[L Ross]

Christmas in Wartime: Battle of the Bulge​

“Officers of the 101st Airborne Division have Christmas dinner in Bastogne, Belgium, while the city is still under German siege. Brigadier General Anthony C. McAuliffe (fourth on the left) commanded the division during the siege.” Photo taken 12/25/1944
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My Uncle Elmer, (Uncle Bub), went into the Battle of the Bulge in a Glider! He took shrapnel through his helmet and woke up blind in a French Hospital. He lived to be 88. His sight returned in that hospital when the swelling on his brain went down.

 

[RicinYakima]

Christmas in Wartime: Battle of the Bulge​

“Officers of the 101st Airborne Division have Christmas dinner in Bastogne, Belgium, while the city is still under German siege. Brigadier General Anthony C. McAuliffe (fourth on the left) commanded the division during the siege.” Photo taken 12/25/1944
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A friend of mine, who looked like the kid in the picture of Montana, jumped in Normandy, Market Garden, trucked into Bastogne and jumped Across the Rhine.

He said the officers got just as much to eat as the men in Bastogne, but their coffee was hotter. Plus they got melted snow to shave every morning. He got his Purple Heart there.

RIP, Cpl Thayer

 

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McAuliffe looks like he is deep in thought.

I once read of speculation that his one-word reply, to the German commander's request to surrender, was not nuts but another four-letter word.