[ARC5] [Milsurplus] Opinions on ARR-7. (Excerpt From Secret WWII Publication)

[Ronnie Hull]

My dad jumped on d day with 82nd. Holland too

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On Aug 28, 2012, at 11:58 AM, "Todd, KA1KAQ" <ka1kaq at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 12:47 PM, D. Platt <jeepp at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
>> I really wish I had had the
>> presence of mind to do a real good radio de-brief with him over the
>> years as he /was/ the history.  I didn't and I now regret it.  It always
>> works this way, doesn't it..........
> 
> Isn't that the truth! Back in the 80s when I was young, [more]
> foolish, and busy chasing girls & cars, I knew a number of interesting
> WWII vets. One had been a Corsair pilot in the Pacific. A little guy,
> very feisty. He used to visit the camera store where I worked and
> share the occasional story. Another was a Battle of the Bulge vet who
> had witnessed a lot of interesting things including a ME-262 buzzing
> or strafing them and a P-38 shooting down a FW-200 outside a harbor
> in....Iceland or Greenland? Can't recall which. Bill played in the
> local community 'City Band' in Montpelier as bass drummer. He had a SS
> helmet and arm band he'd picked up after staring them down for hours
> wondering if they were booby trapped. He said the helmet made an
> excellent bucket to throw up in when he got sick while being
> transported.
> 
> Another, my mom's doctor and grandfather of a fellow student had been
> one of the medics who came ashore at Omaha beach on D-Day. No one knew
> until about a decade or so back, he kept to himself about the
> experience.
> 
> The history that leaves us every day is staggering.
> 
> ~ Todd/KAQ
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