Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: Big Red Badger

47 posted on 08/01/2020 8:42:18 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 46 | View Replies ]


To: Magnum44

Yup,
I had Him in mind!


51 posted on 08/01/2020 9:33:08 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (READ,,,--flattenthefear.com---Stanford Prison Experiment)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 47 | View Replies ]

To: Magnum44
March 1945 - Patton at the Rhine River.

Famous pic of Gen. Patton standing on a bridge near Oppenheim, Germany, you can find online.

A friend of mine, then a US Army captain, had copies of the pictures made that day. Because the captain was (at the moment that the famous bridge photos were taken) a spotter looking for enemy artillery; the captain was located on the second floor of the home/building that you see in the distance above Patton's helmet.

The second floor window that is to your right, but at the other side of the building, facing a forest in the distance, where German artillery was located and were still firing.

The captain had both excellent eyesight and a strong math background. He had a jeep with a radio set and would find ways to move ahead of the US lines, in order to locate where he could spot German artillery shells in flight.

One day, he had entered the central courtyard area of an old town near the German border, when shells began to land close by --- the general architecture of the area being stone, there was a lot of flying rock and shrapnel.

The captain and radioman leaped from their jeep, down some stone steps alongside a church. From there, the captain observed and calculated the likely location of the German artillery, and during a break, returned to the jeep and radio'd the probable coordinates.

For which, the captain received the Silver Star from Patton himself.

The guy rose in rank to Colonel and became a college professor. h/t ct td miss you.

64 posted on 08/01/2020 11:12:50 AM PDT by linMcHlp
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 47 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson