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He also issued a memorable statement to the Germans. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8mb3O5u6ig
Unlike what Biden claimed, my uncle actually fought in the Battle of the Bulge, received 2 Purple Hearts and an individual Silver Star for bravery. Promoted to Master Sergeant by the end of WWII. Attrition was horrible.
WHT?? Nothing about Slow Joe’s uncle earning a purple heart at this battle? Revisionist history!!
NUTS!
The father of a good friend of mine fought in the Battle of The Bulge. He was about 5’5”, a farm boy from south Alabama, named Festus. He offered a pretty Belgian girl some Coca-Cola, who always said it was the worst beverage she had ever tasted. She married him anyway, because she knew character when she saw it. Those guys of that generation are gone now, and we’re worse off for it.
1) No relation to former VA Governor Terry McAuliffe
2) One person who almost fought in the Battle of the Bulge was pulled at about the last minute by the Red Cross in Paris. They were looking for a piano player, and took a private named Dave Brubeck out of the ranks.
My Dad volunteered in 1943, as 16+ million other Americans had, and did the nearly-impossible in hundreds, if not in thousands of situations, saved hundreds of civilian lives, took thousands of enemy lives, with Patton’s 3rd Corps in World War II, from March, 1943 to December, 1945. America fought WWII on 2 fronts: in Europe and the Pacific.
He was a Platoon Sergeant, responsible for 33 soldiers in several squads, and served with the 101st Combat Engineers, 26th Infantry Division, attached to Patton’s 3rd Army Corps in the European Theater. They built and blew bridges and buildings, built HQs, de-activated landmines, and fought in ferocious combat; basically, whatever needed to be done.
He received the European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal w/ 4 Clusters for Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes, Central Europe, the Bronze Star Medal for Valor w/ Bronze Clusters for saving other US Soldiers from Nazi machine gun fire, along with the Purple Heart Medal for Nazi sniper wounds he received in The Battle of The Bulge at Ardennes and Bastogne, Good Conduct Medal, European Theater Service Medal and the WW II Victory Service Medal.
His sniper wound was his “ticket home” on a US Hospital Ship. His family back in Emigsville hadn’t heard if he was dead or alive, even after a US Army Officer personally notified them he’d been shot. They didn’t get a letter from Dad for over a month. There was very little Trans-Atlantic call activity back then.
Dad passed on August 26th, 2018, at 95. May he RIP. I miss you, Dad.
Dad was there, 82nd Airborne, RIP, Papa.
I heard a very tall tale told by ‘big guy’ biden this morning on the radio about the Battle of the Bulge.
It was quite the whopper of a lie (or the imagination of a demented old man).
The Army commissioned a group of historians to write a multi-volume history of WWII, the so-called "Greenbooks" because of the color of the covers They are now available online for free. IMHO the best is the history of the Battle of the Bulge.
It is the biggest battle ever fought by the Army in terms of the number of US soldiers involved and was fought over a huge area. While many focus on Bastogne, there are lots of interesting stories.
My Grandfather was wounded there.
Joe Biden was there
I worked with an old guy who had been a medic at the battle of the bulge. He told me several of the wounded survived because their wounds froze and stopped the bleeding. That image has stuck with me for fifty years. Imagine the cold and the suffering.
My uncle fought in the Battle of the Bulge. He came home and entered the seminary.