Marion: Thank you for your kind offer, however I am not that great a writer and too
much is locked in my "selective memory" about the fighting we encountered. Mostly I
try to bring back the unusual and humorous parts and things like food, conditions, equiptment, weapons and the likes so I probably would be boring everyone. If wished I
will post pics of ww2 both from mine and 2 friend of nine who was also in the 7th Reg..
Hopefully I can con my friend Russ Cloer (Platoon Ldr. of the 7th Reg. I&R platoon to
join in if you can stand another dogface here. Now he is a writer of his experiences.
He goes as recon 3-7-I when he writes. By the way. Did you read the article about
the capture of Berchtersgaden in May's WW 2 History'a magazine. It really brought in
the truth for the first time. Not the fiction that has been told and shown. Both myself and Russ were part of that capture. By the way, my dad was in Intel , part of O.S.S.
I believe and was on a mission in a small plane which was shot down by A.A. and badly
wounded. As he spoke fluent French he was aided in keeping free and shortly got back to friendly territory, hospitilized and shipped home to a Mil. hospital here for 2 months,
returned to duty till discharged at wars end. Then, back to his old civilian job. Same
for myself and my brother once getting out.
Cadet A-2: In ETO it was 85 points as I thought it was world wide but not sure about the world wide bit though. Actually, we never thought the "point system" was quite
fair for a dogface that was in combat. But thats just a opinion.