Posted on 01/09/2013 5:42:24 PM PST by GSWarrior
Edited on 01/09/2013 5:56:31 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
MERRILLVILLE, Ind. — A World War II veteran who served in France during the war has been reunited with his Army-issued duffel bag nearly seven decades after it went missing.
William Kadar, 92, opened a carefully wrapped package Tuesday at his Merrillville, Ind., home and found his drab green duffel bag inside, still stenciled in black with his name and serial number. Kadar last saw the bag used by soldiers to tote their gear in November 1944, a month before he was captured by the Germans.
A letter included in the package said the bag was being returned by a 16-year-old French boy who found it in his grandfather’s house.
“It’s still in good shape. Oooh, boy. Well, I finally got it,” Kadar told the Post-Tribune for a Wednesday story.
Kadar’s granddaughter, Arleen Haas, said the bag was found and kept by a family in Rehaupal, France. The teen’s great-grandparents were killed when their house was bombed by the Germans when his grandfather was 10 years old.
Excerpt, read more at gjsentinel.com
End of 85 to mid-87. A great place to be from, knowwhatImean? I volunteered for Panama to make sure I wouldn’t be stuck in Clovis my whole first tour. At just the time Noriega was making a PITA of himself in Panama. Timing is everything!
>>IMO, the French owe a lot to the USA. But they also owe a lot to Britain, the Soviet Union, Colonial Africa, and, believe it or not, India (over 2.5 MILLION Indian troops served in Europe during WWI, and also during WWII). <<
Had the Axis won German and Japanese would have been the primary languages spoken.
Interestingly, the USA would be where we are now: an antisemitic plebiscite subordinate to the rest of the world.
How ironic: the greatest fighting force in the history of Mankind and 51% of us destroy the USA from within. That firmly-planted 5th column finally bore fruit.
I was an air traffic controller and I will say one thing for Cannon at that time, the flying was very, very busy! That’s about the only thing I can say good about Cannon. Cashed in just about every favor I had and left Cannon to go to Berlin.
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