American Heroes Channel......WTF?

[Diamondback]

My FIL will be 96 on Veteran's Day. He was in the 65th Infantry Division. His unit liberated the concentration camps at Mauthausen and Ohrdruf. Oh, and he has pictures. Know what my FIL's unit did to SS they captured? Let's just say they never made it to POW camps.

Rock on, brother; my Great-Uncle Frank was with the 77th at Gunskirchen, same story. Patton had to forcibly pull them back to ensure that some of those SS bastards were left alive to stand trial! (The 77th was three days ahead of his front line, and at least Uncle Frank's unit was given specific orders that "you see those lightning bolts you don't even give them the CHANCE to surrender.")

[ABNAK]

Rock on, brother; my Great-Uncle Frank was with the 77th at Gunskirchen, same story. Patton had to forcibly pull them back to ensure that some of those SS bastards were left alive to stand trial! (The 77th was three days ahead of his front line, and at least Uncle Frank's unit was given specific orders that "you see those lightning bolts you don't even give them the CHANCE to surrender.")

The 77th ID was in the Pacific, so you're a number or two off on the designation. 71st ID liberated Gunskirchen. In 2016 the 65th and the 71st had a joint reunion (because there were so few left by then) in Conneaut, PA. They have an annual D-Day re-enactment there. It was pretty cool. Got to meet some 71st ID guys in addition to seeing some of the 65th guys I'd met previously through my FIL.

[Diamondback]

The 77th ID was in the Pacific, so you're a number or two off on the designation. 71st ID liberated Gunskirchen. In 2016 the 65th and the 71st had a joint reunion (because there were so few left by then) in Conneaut, PA. They have an annual D-Day re-enactment there. It was pretty cool. Got to meet some 71st ID guys in addition to seeing some of the 65th guys I'd met previously through my FIL.

Thank you, it was the 71st "Red Circle." It's been a while since I've had access to his scrapbook, and may have been scrambled in memory because I deal a lot with the Southwest Pacific.

It was telling that they were only allowed on-site for 24 hours and then immediately isolated for extended debriefing, I suspect as much for Psych reasons as Lessons Learned. And contrary to what some report, he DID see lampshades of human skin and photographed them.

So when some people say it didn't happen, they're not only calling my uncle a liar, they're accusing him of photographic forgery too.

[yoni]

Our fathers, uncles, or grandfathers were there, they saw the evil.

Plus the Nazis kept very accurate records in the camps.

Diamondback, do me a favor call your uncle and tell him an Israeli Colonel, thanks him for what he did.

[Diamondback]

Our fathers, uncles, or grandfathers were there, they saw the evil.

Plus the Nazis kept very accurate records in the camps.

Diamondback, do me a favor call your uncle and tell him an Israeli Colonel, thanks him for what he did.

I wish I could, sir. Uncle Frank passed back in 2012, but I'm sure wherever he is in the Hereafter he'd appreciate the thought.