"Nuts" OT but Dad was there.

LindeDad

And this old guy was born that summer.

The movie is on TV in the back grounds and it is Saturday night.

GFourDriver

So was my dad. 11th Armd div.

Very nice set!

WoodenJefferson

Seems to run in the family...good times for those who returned, saddly Flander's claimed the rest.

My Dad got back and so did my Uncle.

Edit: They were a band of Brothers

I caught the "NUTS" part. During the siege of Bastogne in the Battle of the Bulge, two German officers and two enlisted men came in the lines of the 327th carrying a white flag. They bore a note from the German commander requesting that the Americans surrender. Harper was contacted and personally took the German's request to the Division command post. Brigadier General McAuliffe, who was in temporary command of the Division sent Harper back with the now-famous one word response, "Nuts."

TheRegulator

An Uncle of mine was there- 10th Armored.

LindeDad

I was able to upgrade one slot in the above set.

Will have redo it someday.

AUandAG

One of my patients related this story to me this week. He was there. I thanked him.

We had a good day.

To all my fellow Veterans, a big THANK YOU ALL!

bob

StubbyMcNumbthumbs

My uncle (my dad's older brother) was there. Dunno what unit, just Army infantry. Nearly died in a snowy ditch and spent quite a while in a hospital in England. Later transfered to Army Air Corps until the end of the war. Dad wasn't quite old enough for that one, but enlisted in USAF during Korean conflict.

lathmach

My brother John was there at the Battle of the Bulge.
I was born in 1944. Wish I were in as good a shape as those coins.

Ray

droopyd

My Uncle John (who along with my Dad, his baby brother, got me into this hobby) was in the 101st Airborne. He parachuted into the Netherlands in September '44 on the second invasion wave after the Allies established control over the beachhead at Normandy.

He was dropped behind enemy lines in the failed "Operation Market Garden" campaign popularized in the movie "A Bridge Too Far," which was intended to take a series of bridges over the Rhine that would have opened up Germany to a sweeping ground invasion. My uncle was one of the many paratroopers captured at Arnhem, and he spent about 8 months in a Nazi POW camp before being "liberated" by the Soviet army in May of '45.

He didn't ever really talk much about his experiences. All we knew was that he had lost close to 100 pounds and returned home as little more than skin and bones. And that apparently the Soviet army's method of "liberating" the camp left most of the Allied POWs dead.

He always had a curse prepared for any time someone would mention British Field Marshal Montgomery, who he always blamed for failing to provide adequate support for the campaign. He refused to watch "Hogan's Heroes" for obvious reasons. And sadly, he died several years before the movie "A Bridge Too Far" came out.

GRANDAM

Syl, a VERY NICE Set and The #1 Current Finest

PCGS Set Registry SM
1944 Mint Set: Lindemann Collection
Set Registry U.S. Coins - Mint Sets 1944 Mint Set Lindemann Collection


Lindemann Collection
Current Statistics
Rank 1
Weighted GPA 67.179
Complete 100.00%
Set Rating 67.179

GrandAm

GFourDriver

Droopyd..... That is a great story about your uncle, they really were the "greatest generation" Here is an excerpt from the history of the 11th Armd. Div. when my dad was wounded by a German 8-cm schwere granatwerfer (mortar).

"Our position during the morning was subject to severe enemy artillery and mortar fire. The first casualties of the Company were suffered when a second platoon half track was hit by an artillery shell and over turned; this track was commanded by S Sgt Ingle. A few minutes later a first platoon half track was hit by a mortar shell and three men were seriously wounded; this half track was commanded by S Sgt O'Brien."

Link: http://www.11tharmoreddivision.com/history/21st_aib_b_co_history.htm