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Owen, you are telling me things that I never knew obout our division in England. I for one did not have that experience.
Going across the channel on a british ship was hell too.It was a rough crossing and they fed us kidney stew. We all got sick and puked all over the place. Le Harve was like heaven to us.All we wanted to do was get off of that ship.
So here we are in France. This was really different from anything that we ever saw. Wecamped in an apple orchard. There were no latrines. We dug slit trenches. They were ditches about 2 feet wide in which we straddled to do our thing.
I remember two french girls loading apples and watching us using the slit trench.When word of thios got out,it seemed like everybody needed to use the trench.
On thr way to Belgium ,anybody that knew how to drive wasgiven a 21/2 ton truck loaded with GI's. We formed a long convoy, and at each villiage we were greeted by people offering wine,bread,and flowers.
Funny things happen during war.
Owen,you are a historian, And a good one. Go into google and look up Pvt, Eddie Slowik. He was the only American soldier executed for cowardice in WW2.I will give you more battles that you never heard of in time. |