He told tales of some really nasty fighting at the BoTB...hand to hand at times. He also was deployed to the Pacific with the 82nd. He finished his military career as an ‘advisor’ at the Pentagon. He was 98 when I met him.
Thanks for the additional, Sam.
It’s one thing to shoot at somebody, but quite another to be in hand to hand combat with another human being.
At that point, it’s truly either him or you, because only one can survive.
And to do that in the middle of freezing cold and low rations...unimaginable.
Truly the Greatest Generation. God bless him.