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To: nickcarraway
If You Survive: From Normandy to the Battle of the Bulge to the End of World War II, One American Officer's Riveting True Story
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If you survive your first day, I'll promote you."

So promised George Wilson's World War II commanding officer in the hedgerows of Normandy -- and it was to be a promise dramatically fulfilled. From July, 1944, to the closing days of the war, from the first penetration of the Siegfried Line to the Nazis' last desperate charge in the Battle of the Bulge, Wilson fought in the thickest of the action, helping take the small towns of northern France and Belgium building by building.
Of all the men and officers who started out in Company F of the 4th Infantry Division with him, Wilson was the only one who finished.
24 posted on 11/18/2022 8:31:50 PM PST by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: minnesota_bound

In that case the enemy killed those men, right? Russians killed their own nen.


25 posted on 11/18/2022 8:52:52 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: minnesota_bound

That was a great book; read it years ago.


35 posted on 11/19/2022 4:28:28 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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