UNIFORMS of WW2

[Walt's Daughter]

Daan:

 

My friend Doug posed this question for Don Burgett:

 

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Don, On reading your story about Lt. Dunham, were there other officers like that in the 101st and what was done with them?

 

doug wilber

 

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Doug,

 

There were other officers who weren't liked for one reason or another but I never knew or heard of another officer so completely unfit for military duty, especially combat where time after time he nearly got men killed. It was only by the troopers envolved, that by their combat experience that they were able to keep their lives.

 

On my last patrol in the Bastogne area when I walked into a sleeping German camp and managed to extract my patrol without loss I returned and reported the German camp to Lt. Dunham, asking that he radio a request for artillery on that location which I noted on a map. Lt. Dunham adamatly refused my request to the point of becoming angry. The Germans in that encampment evidently got away with their troops and tanks intact without being fired on; to kill Americans again elswhere. I am still angry about that to this day.

 

Don Burgett