Originally Posted by
SSI01
Nice photo.
Dad spent one Christmas in the Aleutians after fighting on Attu and then invading Kiska to find the late tenants gone in the fog. No photos. Nothing to really take photos of.
He spent another Christmas in the cold, snow and ice moving north into the southern flank of the German pincer surrounding Bastogne. Patton didn't give his folks a moment's letup in the fighting - the enemy either. The general was down on cameras and no one wanted to incur his famous wrath. Nonetheless a photo or two taken in the field would have been priceless.
I never asked him because he was reticent to speak very much about his combat experiences, but I would have liked to know if he had ever experienced a Christmas from 1945 on without thinking of those two very difficult and dangerous holidays in the Army.
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