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

[Glen Zook]

A lot of World War II veterans didn't say much about their tour of duty.  

My mother's eldest brother was on a destroyer escort that came on the scene just after the German submarine U-505 was captured.  He didn't relate that information until just a few years before he died.

My father's younger brother was the only survivor of a B-17 crew that went down in the English Channel.  He was picked up by a fishing boat and taken to occupied France and, after some time, escaped through Spain.  He never said anything about this.  My grandmother told me the whole story.  As far as my uncle was concerned, he was shot down and ended up in the "Channel".
 
Glen, K9STH


Website:  http://k9sth.com


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 From: "Todd, KA1KAQ" <ka1kaq at gmail.com>
To: jeepp at comcast.net 
Cc: arc5 at mailman.qth.net; milsurplus at mailman.qth.net 
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 11:58 AM
Subject: Re: [ARC5] [Milsurplus] Opinions on ARR-7. (Excerpt From Secret WWII Publication)
 
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.