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Soldier killed in WWII to be buried in home state of WVa
The Associated Press ^
| November 23, 2022
Posted on 11/23/2022 7:47:24 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Welcome home, Cpl Gunnoe
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posted on
11/23/2022 7:55:21 AM PST
by
Magnum44
(...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Life is nothing but heartbreak.
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posted on
11/23/2022 8:00:36 AM PST
by
yldstrk
(Bingo! We have a winner!)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Most likely took a direct hit by artillery.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
His unit captured the town of Vossenack, Germany, in the Hürtgen ForestMy FIL fought in the Hürtgen Forest - 5th Armored Division.
Despite my being a combat vet he never said a word to me about it.
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posted on
11/23/2022 8:29:36 AM PST
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: Oldeconomybuyer; All
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posted on
11/23/2022 8:31:48 AM PST
by
fidelis
(👈 Under no obligation to respond to rude, ignorant, abusive, bellicose, and obnoxious posts.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Thank you for your service to the Republic. R.I.P.
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posted on
11/23/2022 8:41:49 AM PST
by
exPBRrat
(.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
I’ve been to the Hürtgen Forest, and it is still nightmarish from the infantry perspective. The Hürtgen Forest cost the U.S. First Army at least 33,000 killed and wounded, including both combat and non-combat losses, with upper estimates at 55,000; German casualties were 28,000.
The battle was so costly that it has been described as an Allied “defeat of the first magnitude.”
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posted on
11/23/2022 9:50:38 AM PST
by
yefragetuwrabrumuy
("All he had was a handgun. Why did you think that was a threat?" --Rittenhouse Prosecutor)
To: Oldeconomybuyer; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
Thanks Oldeconomybuyer.
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posted on
11/23/2022 10:33:32 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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posted on
11/23/2022 10:36:05 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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To: yldstrk
Life is heartbreak, among many other things.
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posted on
11/23/2022 10:36:41 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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posted on
11/23/2022 10:43:33 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: Magnum44
Ditto. Rest in peace soldier. You stood your post.
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posted on
11/23/2022 10:59:23 AM PST
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jmacusa
(Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
To: Oldeconomybuyer
“Day is done, gone the sun, from the lake, from the hill, from the sky. All is well, Safely rest, God is nigh’’.
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11/23/2022 11:07:28 AM PST
by
jmacusa
(Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
The Hurtgen Forest campaign was a costly and futile attack by the US Army that began in mid October of 1944. It was called off on December 14, 1944.
Two days later the supposedly beaten German Army launched the Battle of The Bugle and the American Army was in the fight of it’s life.
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posted on
11/23/2022 11:12:31 AM PST
by
jmacusa
(Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
It was stupid to ever go in there. We should have gone around it where our superior mobility and complete air dominance would have played a much bigger role. These were both negated by fighting in that thick forest which suited the Germans just fine.
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posted on
11/23/2022 12:50:11 PM PST
by
FLT-bird
To: FLT-bird
A thick forest with artillery and mortar rounds landing in the treetops, blowing lethal splinters down. And the mountains itself was covered with thin plates of slick oily shale that would not give traction. Daily gains could be measured in inches. Meanwhile, at the top, the Germans were in good reinforced positions.
And, in the midst of it all was the heaviest fog Europe had seen in over a hundred years.
It has been suggested that the planners did not know how to read a topographical map.
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posted on
11/23/2022 1:16:28 PM PST
by
yefragetuwrabrumuy
("All he had was a handgun. Why did you think that was a threat?" --Rittenhouse Prosecutor)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
DPAA does such a good job. A real service to the families.
To: FLT-bird
Reminds me of much of the fighting in Italy. Gen Clark and his desire for taking Rome to help his career.
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posted on
11/24/2022 10:12:19 AM PST
by
AppyPappy
(Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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