[TigersEye]

Yeah, that’s pretty wild for the era. Imagine the surprise and confusion the German soldiers had when they got a close look at those guys.

[OKSooner]

The German propaganda people had told their troops that the American troops were all "psychopaths and murderers", whereupon the American troops, particularly the Airborne troops, decided that was their queue to go a little bit native on them...

Just some good ol' homeys from Ponca City, Oklahoma, as it turned out. Every time I drive up HWY-177 to my in-laws house we pass the Ponca Indian cemetery and I can see those GI headstones.