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To: elpadre
Great site - thanks from one who there

Sounds even worse than Bastogne. Words fail me. Thank you for your service...

10 posted on 12/09/2015 9:25:55 AM PST by awelliott (What one generation tolerates, the next embraces....)
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To: awelliott

I think in Bastogne, the temperatures were somewhere between 10-20 degrees, and in Chosin it got as low as -37, and that was without wind chill which was brutal (there were high winds at the time, probably coming across the Reservoir area I suppose)

Both of those sound awful to me. It sounds like most veterans who served in those engagements never, ever took a warm bed for granted again.


13 posted on 12/09/2015 10:17:42 AM PST by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant)
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