What a fantastic journal! I wish my grandad kept one. Grandma did but it stopped in 1942 shortly after my dad was born.
24th Armored Engineer-- I have my copy of Band of Brothers finally, so I will be sitting down with a big cup of tea and disc one tonight to get stuck into it! Very much looking forward to watching it. I have had just the opposite of luck with the vets I know. None want to talk. I understand they saw horrible things, hard to think on it these days. They will talk about other portions of their life, but the battlefield seems to be off limits. Sadly, my other grandad.. a Navy vet wouldnt really talk about it either. He would pull out a globe and show you everwhere he went, show you the money he kept from various places he had been to, but many questions were just unanswered. He went from the far east, westward toward the end of the war and post war delivering supplies. He saw the aftermath, and that could not have been picturesque.
Thank you for your responses. I will probably have more questions soon... 