What Are You Reading?

Thanks, you're right. There were rebreathers but not scuba. Olexa was trained to swim as an army Sea Scout. Program was dropped and he never was deployed as such.

 

Embattled Witness by Bernard Haring. Catholic priest goes to war (drafted and served as saniter/medic).

 

Charles Cromwell Martin's Battle Diary. CCM was a CSM for the Canadian QOR.

 

The Guns of Normandy.

 

I recently read Swan or Slog, a really good book about the British army during Op Veritable. Even after 80 years, the author showed that there are myths which need to be dispelled.

 

Max Kuhnert's Will We See Tomorrow?

 

The SS-Sonderkommando Dirlewanger

 

Hans Sturm.

 

Feuer!

Germany heavy artilleryman (150 mm guns) account of warfare on the Eastern Front. His battery dissolves after it i chased across the Oder into Berlin. From Berlin he flees west in a kubelwagenand they come across a tank with a white star. Thinking it was Soviet, his comrades almost fire on it with their MG (fat chance hurting a tank). Then he realizes that one of the soldiers is black and the Soviets had no black soldiers. Therefore the tank is American. He orders the MG to be lowered and they surrenedered. At the black GI's insistence, he surrenders his P-08 to him and the grinning GI gives him a pack of cigarettes in exchange. He then knew he was safe. Post-war his father (who was a naturalized American) applies for his Visa and he immigrates with his wife and child. His final observation:

In Germany it is Gott mit uns. In America it is In God We Trust. What will God do?

Two different nations, two diffferent outlooks.

 

Into the Fire: 275th Infantry Regiment in World War II by Tim Desiderio

 

Normandy ‘44 by James Holland. I just received this.

 

It took so long to post that I posted twice.