Sounds like your dad could have been in 7th Army like my father.
” I don’t romanticize war; but in a way, I guess
that’s best as the killing is bloody & it is real.”
“It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.” Robert E Lee to James Longstreet, on seeing a Union charge repelled at the Battle of Fredericksburg
88th/351st. - Blue Devils
N. Africa, Sicily, Italy, Germany
They’d have ended up in Japan if Truman hadn’t had the guts
to use that bomb because they were hardened combat troops.
Daddy’s worst memory was of a certain battle which he had
flashbacks to the rest of his life - Laiatico, Italy.