KTK Thank you in turn for your much appreciated comments and for posting your family info. Whilst replying, I have to admit that I was more than...
Wm, I hear what you have to say, but with all due respect, you have made various assumptions that are simply incorrect. Whilst accepting that...
Wm @Ron Goldstein ? Ron
If I may, I'd like to broaden the scope of this thread by writing a few words about the identification of captured Jewish servicemen by the...
lRusso216 Thanks for finding that link.......... I knew that I had posted something on the subject some time ago :) Ron
Kilroy was here ? He and I go back a long way ! http://ronsactualarmyalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2006/04/page-72.html And I've just done a bit of...
Thinking again about the most unlikey event I witnessed in WW2, consider the tale about Peter in this thread, go down to posting No3....
Blimey. ! That was quick ! Have just been there and was about to report back to you that it was OK when I got your own posting :) Well done...
Otto Thankyou kind Sir ! Ron
Anyone tried to raise the ww2talk.com forum today? I'm fully aware that changes are taking place, but it would be nice if the mods who frequent...
Otto Sent you PM Ron
Elinor Lovely story and well done Erle ! Ron (Who also still knows his dots & dashes)
My memory tells me the Sherman weighed 30 ton. Can't visualise that being dropped by parachute ! Ron
Gaines Thanks for your too flattering comment. As I've writen only one poem in my long life it was entitled to have been of some interest :)...
Consider the tale of Jack Nissenthal........ In my, and many others opinion "The VC that never was"...
I've heard it said that everyone has at least one piece of poetry inside their mind. I wrote mine in August 1943, after passing through Adrano in...
RIP Fred Wilson http://ww2talk.com/forums/topic/59093-forum-roll-of-honour/#entry713671 A lovely man Ron
Had a look through my memoirs to see if I'd mentioned mortar fire and found only this:...
Writing as someone who has faced enemy barrages in both Sicily and Italy can I just add that quite apart from the obvious ear shattering noise and...
Stop writing about what life was like in ww2 Ron