Tuesday, March 27, 2012

An Incident in North Africa with General George Patton


General George had arrived only a few days before German planes started strafing where he was staying in Algiers.  He was so mad and told them about it, grabbed these pearl handle pistols, went outside and fired at the planes coming in for the second pass.

He said, “You Krauts are dead but you just don’t know it.”

End of the War

“Now.” General Patton was put in command of US 3rd Army advancing toward Belgium where, 101st Airborne troops were surrounded by Germans. On January 1944 had snow and ice (coldest in 100 years).
April 1, 1945 the 7th Army moved most of our troops out of France except Nancy, France and Toul Terminal - needed all personnel in Germany.
Hostilities ended May 8, 1945 and on May 19th the first freight train crossed the Neckar River near Stuttgart and Danube.

War over! We moved from Nancy, France to Esslingen, Germany and stayed on as the army of occupation for several months.