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To: ken5050
508th PIR...quite a legacy. Do you know how many combat jumps he had?

I'm not sure. He jumped at Normandy. The 508th got scattered everywhere and he was one of the few from the 508th who went into Sainte-Mère-Église to try and reconnect with others from the 508th. He said he saw the paratrooper hanging from the roof of the church and just assumed he was dead.

He also jumped into Holland for Operation Market Garden and fought for the Nijmegen bridge.

12 posted on 12/16/2013 7:03:18 AM PST by 109ACS (If this be Treason, then make the most of it. Patrick Henry, May 1765)
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To: 109ACS

My mother was a 12 year old girl at the time of the Bulge. She and her family were living in a house in the Ardennes somewhere near between Florentville and Martue. She has lots of great stories to tell about how they were waiting for the weather to clear, about how the Germans ran around American uniforms etc.

Her father was an officer in the Belgian Army and spent almost a year in a German POW camp before being released.


37 posted on 12/16/2013 8:24:38 AM PST by The_Trooper
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To: 109ACS

Have you ever seen “Theirs is the Glory” It is on YouTube. It is half documentary/half movie about Market Garden.


81 posted on 12/16/2013 10:33:14 AM PST by RedwM
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