1944 Soldiers

**mojjax** · Aug 07, 2011, 06:06 PM

I got a box of old topo maps the other day at a yard sale , and this old photo was in there .

**mojjax** · Aug 07, 2011, 06:10 PM

I counted about 319 faces - the cool thing about it is - several dozen signed the back

**bama20a** · Aug 10, 2011, 08:59 AM

Sure like that pic-Ive got one of my Dad's like that.

**Monty** · Mar 22, 2012, 06:14 PM

Makes me wonder how many of them never made it back home. I was lucky. My dad went all the way from the beach head in France to the outskirts of Berlin and still made it back home. He was at normandy, The battle of the Ardannes, The Battle of the Bulge and was held up by Ike across the river from Berlin. They wanted the Russians to go in first and take revenge for all the killing the Germans did in Russia. Plus it probably saved several thousand lives of the American and British forces by letting the Russians take Berlin. There was a lot of brutality in this war that was never reported. I asked dad what they did with prisoners and he told me they didn't take prisoners because they didn't have anyone to watch them or enough food to feed them