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My father would be 100 years old on Thursday. Original Antifa. (Original Post) Dennis Donovan May 2023 OP
Hey, look who's here. Welcome back, stranger. NT mahatmakanejeeves May 2023 #1
Thanks mahatma! Dennis Donovan May 2023 #3
Same with my uncle Siwsan May 2023 #2
So did Dad, w/ the 551st AA AW Bn Company B Dennis Donovan May 2023 #4
A friend said the Battle of the Bulge was the coldest he had ever been. keithbvadu2 May 2023 #8
So was my father. greatauntoftriplets May 2023 #5
Maybe a Sherman tank? Dennis Donovan May 2023 #6
I think so. greatauntoftriplets May 2023 #11
Dad would would have 110 last multigraincracker May 2023 #7
That's quite a story. greatauntoftriplets May 2023 #12
That's quite a story. greatauntoftriplets May 2023 #13
Dad stayed in being in the Arkansas multigraincracker May 2023 #14
My mother was pregnant with my older sister when he left for Europe. greatauntoftriplets May 2023 #15
Photograph Emerges of Leftist Antifa VIOLENTLY Disrupting Conservative White Supremacists!!!! keithbvadu2 May 2023 #9
My old man was ANTIFA also... USS Quincy CA-71 Normandy, Cherbourg mitch96 May 2023 #10

Dennis Donovan

(24,477 posts)
4. So did Dad, w/ the 551st AA AW Bn Company B
Sun May 14, 2023, 01:01 PM
May 2023

The southern flank of Patton's 3rd, which pinched off the bulge.


His trusty M1 and Bofors 40mm!

keithbvadu2

(39,829 posts)
8. A friend said the Battle of the Bulge was the coldest he had ever been.
Sun May 14, 2023, 01:34 PM
May 2023

A friend said the Battle of the Bulge was the coldest he had ever been.

He was from NC.

He thought the war would be over in a couple of weeks when he went to boot camp.

He parachuted over Normandy on D Day. 101st
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My uncle was captured in the Battle of the Bulge.

5 or 8 months as a POW.

Said they ate cattle beets.

greatauntoftriplets

(176,717 posts)
5. So was my father.
Sun May 14, 2023, 01:13 PM
May 2023

He was with the motor pool under Patton. I think it was the 553rd. Mostly he rode around in a tank.

multigraincracker

(33,913 posts)
7. Dad would would have 110 last
Sun May 14, 2023, 01:28 PM
May 2023

January. Was in the Cavalry Recon that got trapped behind the lines. Was told to hold a road with Germans coming down it for as long as possible with only one large gun. Went to a reunion with him years ago and more guys came up to thank him for getting them all out alive. He was a Captain. He held the road until they started to take small arms fire. Then burn their equipment and escaped on foot cross country.
So glad I could drive him that reunion and hear all the stories he never told us.

greatauntoftriplets

(176,717 posts)
12. That's quite a story.
Sun May 14, 2023, 02:23 PM
May 2023

My father was a staff sergeant who turned down an offer to go to OCS when he enlisted in January of 1942. He was told that he would have to serve extra time in the Army which he did not want to do.

He'd be 113 next November.

greatauntoftriplets

(176,717 posts)
13. That's quite a story.
Sun May 14, 2023, 02:23 PM
May 2023

My father was a staff sergeant who turned down an offer to go to OCS when he enlisted in January of 1942. He was told that he would have to serve extra time in the Army which he did not want to do.

He'd be 113 next November.

multigraincracker

(33,913 posts)
14. Dad stayed in being in the Arkansas
Sun May 14, 2023, 02:38 PM
May 2023

National Gard next. His unit ended up being the only outfit called up for Korea.
He went to OCS in Texas with Ronald Reagan and he never liked him. Used his benefits to go back to school and get his PHD. Retire Professor Emeritus with an Endowment Chair in his name.

greatauntoftriplets

(176,717 posts)
15. My mother was pregnant with my older sister when he left for Europe.
Sun May 14, 2023, 04:00 PM
May 2023

He was 33 at the time and his job was waiting for him. My mother would have hated being a military wife.

Your father got the full benefits of the GI Bill, even if it meant going to Korea. Kudos to him.

keithbvadu2

(39,829 posts)
9. Photograph Emerges of Leftist Antifa VIOLENTLY Disrupting Conservative White Supremacists!!!!
Sun May 14, 2023, 01:46 PM
May 2023

Photograph Emerges of Leftist Anti-Fascists VIOLENTLY Disrupting Conservative White Supremacists!!!!!

mitch96

(14,583 posts)
10. My old man was ANTIFA also... USS Quincy CA-71 Normandy, Cherbourg
Sun May 14, 2023, 01:51 PM
May 2023

He did not talk much about it and said he was proud of what he contributed..
Lost all of his European family in the holocaust. Needless to say he hated the Nazi.
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