This was my dad's story. It means a lot to me. As the master sergeant and jump master on one of the planes loaded with equipment and 101st paratroopers that were to lay out communications in advance of the invasion on D-Day, he and two other units were dropped off course into an orchard of sorts and after some skirmishes with the enemy, …
This was my dad's story. It means a lot to me. As the master sergeant and jump master on one of the planes loaded with equipment and 101st paratroopers that were to lay out communications in advance of the invasion on D-Day, he and two other units were dropped off course into an orchard of sorts and after some skirmishes with the enemy, ended up surrounded by Germans. He spent the rest of the war in a German camp, as a wounded POW. Others not so lucky, went on to fight the rest of the war, which Band of Brothers tells brilliantly. It's ironic that being interred in a camp kept him alive, isn't it?
This was my dad's story. It means a lot to me. As the master sergeant and jump master on one of the planes loaded with equipment and 101st paratroopers that were to lay out communications in advance of the invasion on D-Day, he and two other units were dropped off course into an orchard of sorts and after some skirmishes with the enemy, ended up surrounded by Germans. He spent the rest of the war in a German camp, as a wounded POW. Others not so lucky, went on to fight the rest of the war, which Band of Brothers tells brilliantly. It's ironic that being interred in a camp kept him alive, isn't it?