On the street I grew up on all the dads were WW 2 or Korea vets. One of them had hit the beach at Normandy. His left shin was badly mangled from a machine gun bullet. He made it up the beach and inland about 2000 yards when he got hit. He always wore shorts and had a bad limp but always had a smile on his face. He thought of himself as one of the lucky ones. Lived into his 90’s.
Almost everyone he fought with did not survive.
If You Survive: From Normandy to the Battle of the Bulge to the End of World War II - One American Officer’s Riveting True Story
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