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To: Free ThinkerNY
Before the Battle of the Bulge, Agnew and other members of the unit were requested for pathfinder duty and parachuted into Bastogne...

Not questioning Mr. Angew's service, but there is something wrong with this story.

The 101st went into Bastonge on trucks. I never heard of any jumps in that campaign.

8 posted on 04/11/2010 7:27:56 PM PDT by Ditto
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To: Ditto
Found this note online:

"On 23 dec 1944 , right after the fog lifted 2 sticks of Pathfinders of the 506th jumped and landed on the LZ behind the cemetery . They set up the beacons for the supplies to be dropped . With them were Jake McNiece and Jack Agnew . Famous photo of Jak Agnew sitting on the brick pile was taken at the one of the old brick factories behind the Renval camping site."

11 posted on 04/11/2010 7:40:47 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Ditto

They were pathfinders, it wasn’t a mass jump.


16 posted on 04/11/2010 9:07:24 PM PDT by ansel12 ( Why are the non "social conservative" Republicans so unconservative?)
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