[AT] Veterans day

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My wife's Dad was a 1st Lt (Army) on Okinawa.  Assigned to a Tank 
Destroyer unit, he was not right in the thick of things initially, but 
jr officers were chewed up so fast that he soon was rotated into the 
Infantry and lived 4-5 hours after that.  I forget the name of the hill, 
but he went up around 5:00 AM and was dead before 10:00 AM.  Reading the 
Division history is so matter-of-fact, you cannot imagine what must have 
gone through these mens' minds.

She was so young she cannot even remember what his voice sounded like.

God Bless em!

Gene
Elgin, Illinois USA

Dallas and Kathy wrote:

> Good Afternoon, My Father,too, crossed the Rhine. He was in the 5th 
> and 7th Armies. The only time in the history of the USA, that a group 
> of men have been assigned to 2 Armies. Dad took the flag on the SS 
> headquarters on the Rhine. It is a HUGE flag ,edged in black with SS 
> on the corner. Yes, Dad landed on the southern tip of Africa, marched 
> the entire length of Africa, into Sicily, to the toe of Italy. Then to 
> France, to Germany. Then back to France. He was the 3rd Liberator to 
> walk through the gates of Auswich. Once when he was drunk, he told me 
> of the rendering vats there, for rendering what fat remained in the 
> Jews' bodies. He said that the "oil" was used for lamp lights. He was 
> indeed a hero. Unsung to world, but never to me. Everything that he 
> experienced during the war helped to make him an alcoholic. But for 
> the 43 years that God let me have this wonderful man as my father, he 
> was nothing short of gentle.
>
>                                      In Loving memory of Clarence Albers,
>                                                        Kathy Klemme
>                                                  His only Daughter
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>> My brother-In-Law Benny DeFuentes  was with  Patton he was captured 
>> crossing
>> the Rhine and spent that last 6 months of the  war in a German 
>> concentration
>> camp. He said a German Sergeant took a liking to  him and brought him
>> sandwiches now and then. Other than that they ate carrots  and carrot 
>> juice he never
>> ate another carrot after the war.   I found  him on a website for 
>> WWII POWs
>> funny I was looking for him under his real name  Benito but it was 
>> under his
>> nickname Benny.
>>
>> Walt Davies
>> Cooper Hollow  Farm
>> Monmouth, OR 97361
>> 503 623-0460
>>
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