To: TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig
"He did a combat landing in Operation Market Garden before D-Day."
Operation Market Garden took place in September 1944, after D-Day.
23 posted on
06/05/2016 11:11:47 PM PDT by
mass55th
(Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
To: mass55th
Whoops....got my timeline reversed.
Ralph “Bud” Thomas from upstate NY.
Spent the remainder of his years in California working as a civilian for the defense dept. in the Rialto area.
38 posted on
06/06/2016 9:39:12 AM PDT by
TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig
(Trump, effective govt. that will be great for crony "art of the deal" capitalists)
To: mass55th
I remember him getting very passionate about the airborne guys getting extra pay and he said “I went through all the same training they did except for the jump.” He said he wished he could have jumped out of the glider!
39 posted on
06/06/2016 9:41:38 AM PDT by
TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig
(Trump, effective govt. that will be great for crony "art of the deal" capitalists)
To: mass55th
and it was his shrapnel injuries from Market Garden that put him out of action for the duration....caught metal in his upper torso.
Watching the Iraq war on the news every nite really was not a good thing for him. Pretty sure it took a few years off his life because it brought back all his war memories.
40 posted on
06/06/2016 9:43:57 AM PDT by
TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig
(Trump, effective govt. that will be great for crony "art of the deal" capitalists)
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