Last seen: March 26, 2012 4:05 pm
I did not mean that posting to be caustic at all. I feel it was taken the wrong way. However if my posts offend anyone let me know and will cease th...
O.K. , so the spelling is wro ng after over 60 years or so. Take 3 points away from me. No. Didnt need the 101 to O.K. it as we had it capured a...
Roque: Yea, know just how you felt. No greeting band, no doughnuts and coffee. We who came home and left our Division over there as "single s...
God bless those Combat Medics. Actually never saw a bad one or one who lacked guts. They were our first line between the wounded and seeing God....
Fred: Will miss your postings but will still keep in touch with you as usual. Come back when you can though..
Stevin: Check up on a book published by Pratt Pusuits 1512 So. 23th St. Alrington, VA written by Sherman W. Pratt. Titled "Autobahn to Berchte...
A lot of truth in these replies. Very rarely do I go into details of combat conditions to anyone but another of the same type. Even on here. H...
Sgt Leo (Fred). Damn good post. Must have somehow missed it till now. I too am very worried. Seems like some VERY DUMB AMERICANS in a couple of st...
Al: You were lucky we were "requeated" to leave Berchtesgaden on May 6th '45. Otherwise all would have been gone with us.
Marion: I do have seveal pics of a Austrian town, half way between Berchtesgaden and Salzburg but no recollation of the towns name. It was on ...
Sgt. Leo.: Strange you should mention rifle practice. When arriving as a replacement rifleman in France and being shipped to a front line out...
Gerome: A good firsthand hisory of the 7th inf Reg/3rd Inf Div can be found in Sherm Pratts book "Autobahn to Berchtesgaden". He was battlefie...
Custerman: Is it a 9mmK Kurz (.380) or a regular 9 mm Luger chamber?? Sgt. Leo: Looks like a 7.65 (.32 auto) made by Sauer and Sohn. Both are...
Marion: Tell him to join in the forum. Both him and his dad preferably.
Sgt. Leo. Yes, I do use the work Kraut also as you know instead of Gemans in most posts. Guess it is a old habit. I dont see anything wrong wrong w...