Re: Happy Veterans Day
Posted by Packard53 On 2009/11/12 20:04:08
My late father John Robert Shireman went overseas after the Battle of the Bulge. In that short time until the surrender of Germany in early 1945 my father served in the 3rd Army with the 70th Tank Battalion as a driver of more than a couple of Sherman tanks. During this short time my father received TWO PURPLE HEARTS because he had two tank blow up he driving that went up against German Armor Tanks such as the Tiger. The second time he was wounded the Germans came up and shot every member of the tank he was driving. He was dam near killed and he was the only one to live to tell about it.
After WWII ended in Germany my father help guard the main communications switch board when the Nuremberg Trials took place. He got to see all the NAZI goons be tried in person like Goring, Hess, and others.
If he were living today he would tell you that Erwin Rommel was a better General than what Patton ever was. Sorry Eric and Scottie my father was there first hand and lived to tell me that Rommel was the best.
Now it is time for me to move onto soemthing different as this is now brining up some bad memories for me
John F. Shireman
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After WWII ended in Germany my father help guard the main communications switch board when the Nuremberg Trials took place. He got to see all the NAZI goons be tried in person like Goring, Hess, and others.
If he were living today he would tell you that Erwin Rommel was a better General than what Patton ever was. Sorry Eric and Scottie my father was there first hand and lived to tell me that Rommel was the best.
Now it is time for me to move onto soemthing different as this is now brining up some bad memories for me
John F. Shireman
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