a red devil

[sgt mason]

i know a red devil who told me a story that is ture


he was in a plane about to jump over holland when as he went to jump his static line twisted and cased him to have a roman candle and luckeley he kicked out the right way and he was ok but he landed in a tree and 2 germans walked underneeth him but didnt see him and he got down and the he was captured and escaped and was recaptured and escaped again and rejoined his unit and continued only to have a german fixed line shoot at him and put i think it was 20 bullet holes in the side of his tunic and i actualy saw his tunic and it had lots of holes it looked more than 20 he forght in france holland belgum and germany and i think he said at arnhem



thought you might like to here his story

oh p.s. does any 1 have storys about paratroopers?

[plant-pilot]

I do know some true stories are stranger than fiction, but I'm not too sure I'd have been all that convinced. Sounds like the sort of story that's told after a couple of pints in the Legion, heard often before over the years and getting better at every telling.

I'm not saying it isn't true, but when stories like that are true, it's usually told by someone else and the subject of the story stands quietly looking embarrassed.

[lancesergeant]

I'm inclined to agree on that, over the years one becomes two becomes four etc. I worked with a Polish para who was at Arnhem, a real gent, unassuming, never hardly said a thing all day. One of his friends who also served in the war mentioned he had served in Arnhem - but not to mention it, that this gent had lost a lot of his mates in that battle. His friend said that this gent was a real tiger if provoked, but the battle effecting him even after all these years. It would have been fascinating to have heard it from one who was there, but I held this gent in high regard so I didn't bother.

[Philip,ABRG]

If fought in France and Germany doubt he was at Arnhem, and all the Roman candle stories I ave heard about from Vets, never made