Subject: P-47/51 deflection shots into the belly of the German
tanks,reality
From: (Drazen Kramaric)
Date: 9/6/03 2:17 PM Pacific Daylight Time
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On 21 Aug 2003 21:04:25 -0700, (Kevin Brooks)
wrote:


Odd how Art subscribes to this position in this case, but whenever the
subject of folks serving in the combat support/service support arenas
pops up, he lays their lot in life solely at their own discretion.

You guys fired a lot of flak towards Art, but from what the veterans
of E company, 506th regiment, 101st Airborne division said to mr
Ambrose and he used in his book I concluded that combat soldiers did
make a difference between them and the service troops. There was a
difference between the risk of being front line infantryman and mess
orderly.

Yes, the war couldn't have been fought without service troops, but it
was the front line soldiers that put their lives on risk on daily
basis and had much bigger chance never to come from the war alive.

The guys from 506th who volunteered to serve as paratroopers did not
want to be mess orderlies and openly said so. Art says that as well
and is castigated for stating what his generation thought and
believed.


Drax


Thank you. Reality counts for a lot in war.

Arthur Kramer
344th BG 494th BS
England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany
Visit my WW II B-26 website at:
http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer