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Thanks Rob for the post. I served in Co A, 71st Inf, 44th Div which was in the Corp with the 100th and most of the time to its left on line. I went to the site and found the situation maps especially the map showing the German's direction of attack in Jan45 quite remarkable I was in that acttion and...

I just saw your post and wish though late to add our condolences to you and to the soldiers families, to their military unit and to the Army and people of Germany who support such gallant men. Paul

An interesting exchange! The Japanese were a naval power, far superior to Britain and the US even before Pearl. The Japanese Army as many others here said was a poorly equipped foot army that had little success on broadfronts. Slim and Wingate stopped them cold in Burma/India. Singapore probably cou...

I served in a USID in WWII and recall a couple of gas scares when gas shells were fired by German units. My recollection was that one occurred in the Fall in Alsace. We were near Rohrbach and there was a scramble to get that stupid gas mask pouch dug out and reissued. I also recall that that thing w...

I'm from Rudi's genration I volunteered after highschool and was trained in the Infantry School at Benning ending up in a rifle company, Co A, 71st Div, 44th Div. 15th Corp, 7th Army in Alsace, Rhineland, Central Europe somehow surviving those months; redeployed as a Div in July45 to States to make ...

I made one, still great! The Kasang site is a gem. I always like that stuff about "the US Military decided to try to hold the position" Even reading that sentence kept me awake a couple of nights. I didn't mean to compare the two actionas to quality. I just always thought that the extricat...

I don't have the book, yet. I'll wait 'till someone in the family buys it for me! Childers told the story in class one time. I remember saying to him that it would make a great play; perhaps on the order of Miller's A View From the Bridge. I'm not his intimate and I have not seen him since I gave hi...

I read the English translation. And I did get the gist of several of those stories. The article does show substantial tactical value to the sniping efforts. I know this that Amer. infantry wore no insigna on the outside of garments. NCO wore stripes if at all on the OD shirt sleeve; officers a bar p...

I "read" your article on sniping. It's always surprizing how much one can get out of a writing even though one does not understand the language. Sniping is a terroristic activity I always thought. It has hardly any tactical and no strategic value. In fact it enfuriates solders unless they'...

Re read your post on the 1st Marines at the 38th. Interesting that I read VietNam into those facts and interesting that while tactically different the artillery use had some similarities. The accounts that I have for some reasons I always have had a number of Marine grunts as friends. They had reach...

I got my penninsulae mixed up. I hope not the facts. Thank you. I read your A&W post and got thirsty. A&W is still available in the markets and at first opportunity I shall make a float with some icecream and some bottled Seltzer water and report.! Paul

Baltasar your comedian is not so much a comedian at all! I read your signature in German to say in English: " If you don't have anything to say, simply say nothing", or you could smooth it out by saying: "If you don't have anything to say keep your mouth shut!"which at least Kant...

This will bother many Marines but the consensus of infantry leaders at the time including articles in the Infantry Journal was that the VietNam light infantry outmanuevered the Marine units through out that 38th parallel action and that for whatever reason the Marines often lacked good equipment. Ev...

My recollection on the Vincennes thing was that the aircraft was Iranian; whether it was an Airbus on not I do not know; but, the passengers were Iranian citizens return from a trip, nothing military at all. But this was in the time frame of the Iranian revolution and the action of the Vincennes was...

Guillermo root beer in the States and elsewhere I suppose is a non alcoholic, possibly some left from fermantation, that originally was a home style brew. When I was a kid we always made in with sugar, water and an extract supplied by a a company named Hires which also bottled a pasturized version. ...