VIDEO: Ukraine Troops SURRENDER en-masse; WHITE FLAGS on Tanks (July 30th)
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I thought the German Panzer tanks were diesel like the majority of Russian tanks but see that they were gasoline too.
In the matter of the Russian armor, it was quantity over quality, but it seemed to pay off at a very high cost to human life.
During the Battle of Kursk Russia lost more men than all other belligerent nations did on all fronts. A football stadiums worth of men every week, and every three months more men than the U.S. did during the whole war.
My dad was in Coast Guard during WWII. Had American, European - Africa - Mideast, and Asia Pacific patches during WWII, but mostly fought in Pacific attached to the First Marine Divsion. He drove a landing craft during Guadalcanal, Battle of Tulagi and Gavutu-Tanambogo, Florida Islands campaign.
Stalin once said that “quantity has a quality all its own”.
The actor Eddie Albert was a coastie who resigned to accept a reserve commission in the Navy. He commanded a landing craft at Tarawa and was awarded the Bronze Star with the “V” device for valor for rescuing and supervising the rescue of over 70 Marines. He probably should have been awarded the Navy Cross for that.
Lloyd Bridges and both of his sons also served in the Coast Guard and the Auxiliary.
My Pop was recalled to the Army in May of 1941. He had already completed an NG term by then. He served stateside for over five years training medics and medical technicians.
“Bless ‘em all”,
My father almost never spoke about his war time , and he never wanted any recognition one on one or otherwise. He did tell me one time that when you got out he could have gotten about anything he wanted. He and another fellow re-boarded and saved a ship, not one below, that was evacuated and sinking. He said they ask him, "what do you want", and said I want to go home, and that was it.
He did get two bronze stars with presidential unit citations, The Guadalcanal patch that he got was the only patch I ever heard him mention.
Here is his ship after it was torpedoed. Pretty amazing it did not sink.
Pop’s youngest brother was a 3/5 Marine, Peleliu, Kwajalein and Okinawa. I was privileged to live next door to him for sixteen years; he would talk to me and his son about the war but not to anyone else.
My two grandmothers sent six boys off to the war and got them all back safe. It was miraculous.
What a great connection to history. I bet he had some great stories, and not all of them good.
I bet you grandmothers were praying women. Would be hard to have six sons off in war and not be.