Oh, yeah, Curtis LeMay is gonna put a world of hurt on Japan.
Hamburgers in a can? I guess if I was in a frozen foxhole, Id eat 'em.
Oh, yeah, Curtis LeMay is gonna put a world of hurt on Japan.
Hamburgers in a can? I guess if I was in a frozen foxhole, Id eat 'em.
To a truly hungry man, that would look like manna from heaven.
Medal of Honor recipient Master Sergeant Nicholas Oresko:
In the early morning hours on Jan. 23, 1945, the 28-year-old set off to take out an enemy machine-gun bunker.
“We [had] attacked their positions several times, and we got beaten back,” he said. “It’s terrible. It scares the hell out of you.
“So we figured this time, let’s sneak up on them,” Oresko said. “Instead of getting prepared with artillery fire, let’s just go as it gets dark and sneak up on them and then attack ’em.”
Oresko started out solo at 4:30 a.m. that cold winter morning. And he was resigned to not coming back alive. “I looked up to heaven and said, ‘Lord, I know I’m going to die, please make it fast,’ ’’ he said.
He tossed a grenade into the bunker and then rushed it with his M-1 rifle. Another machine gun opened fire and knocked him down, wounding him in the right hip and leg, yet he managed to crawl to another bunker and take it out with another grenade.
“The machine gunner who shot me thought I was dead,” Oresko said. “I was able to move around, sneak around, so they didn’t see me. They saw me go down. They thought they’d killed me, but they didn’t. I slipped around and somehow got around, and they were in a bunch.”
Oresko killed 12 German soldiers and refused to leave the area until he was sure his unit had completed its mission.
“They wanted to take me back to the hospital,” Oresko said. “I said ‘No, let’s take the position first.’ I didn’t want to give it up after doing so much.”
President Harry S. Truman presented the Medal of Honor to Oresko during a White House ceremony on Oct. 30, 1945.
http://heroesmemorial.org/content/medal-honor-recipient-msgt-nicholas-oresko
I just wonder what kind of ideas will come to him for the Japanese as he sits back in his chair, lights a cigar and looks at the match a bit before putting it out?