unfortunately many units were kept on the front til a huge majority had turned over from death or wounding. this was really tough on morale.

a friend from my optomist club who died a few years back was a paratrooper who paricipated in three major invasions: africa, italy and france. on one of them he broke both legs (or was it ankles?).

in some ways though they had it easier than our soldiers in iraq. the germans mostly played by the rules (not the japenese though) and you could tell soldiers from civilians.

tom w

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