What Are You Reading?

Boston man meself.

 

Finished Tom Didmon's Lucky Guy (Canadian soldier in 2nd Canadian Div) and then Eugene Howard's A Name in the Sand. Howard was in a Port Loading Company before volunteering for combat. He gave up his stripes.

 

Awaiting the Sun: WW II Veterans Remember the Aleutians by Bill Paul.

 

Not World War II but…………..I am interested in this now

 

Just started reading this after watching Apocalypse Now- the Final Cut the other night.

 

James E. Baugh's From Skies of Blue: My Experiences With The Eighty-Second Airborne During World War II.

 

Do Well or Die by Daneman. It's about one soldier's experience in the 10th Mtn Div.

 

Burns' Jump Into the Valley of the Shadow of Death.

 

Warriors of the 106th. They were the green division in the Ardennes that had two regiments cut off and forced to surrender.

 

Excellent book which I have recommended to others in the past.

What did you think about the Final Cut? I saw a director's cut or some such a few years ago, which included the French plantation and the Playboy girls, and I didn't think it added much to the story.

 

Yeah, that's the Final Cut . Absolutely the best version. Saw the original in the pictures in '79, and it was a good movie. But having seen the other versions, I began to appreciate the whole concept a lot more.
Feel the Final Cut completes the story and breaks up the whole "four guys travelling up a river on a patrol boat" bit.

 

I think i'm right in saying this is a 20 year thread! And still active...

 

Can't beat a good colouring book! Waddya think comics are for?

 

As TP comic are not pliable enough. Then again, one Polish draftee ask his Soviet sergeant for the last page of Pravda. He didn't get it when the sergeant learned his intended use.

 

Sergeant Nibley, PhD.

Nibley mentions a Jewish interrogator who hated Nazis. The interrogator's family including himself fled Germany while the going was good. Anyway, at Cherbourg they captured a civilian who spoke German. The Col. ordered David Bernard (the German speaking Jew) to take the man away and execute him (spies are fair game). No problem since Bernard hated nazis and had killed some already.

As they were walking away, Bernard give him an instruction in German. "You speak German," the prisoner asked? When Bernard said he did, the prisoner asked him where he was from. Bernard mentioned the town and the German asked, "Do you know Herr Bernard?" "He's my father!" At this point the prisoner spun around and cried out, "Little David!" With that he hugged his captor. The German was an older man drafted into the labor service and wanted to surrender the first chance he got. Before the war he was the house servant who help Herr Bernard and his family to leave Germany. Bernard returned the prisoner unharmed and they put him to work in the kitchen. Little David Bernard cried when he recounted the story to Nibley and how he almost killed the man who saved his family.