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alta:

the speculation is the soldier died, but this very well could've saved his life too. Based on the wear on it I have no doubt it was in a holster at the time

http://www.guns.com/2015/12/21/this-shrapnel-damaged-m1911-is-relic-from-battle-of-the-bulge-13-photos/

ArJunaZ:
Wow!  That was an intense read.  The force that propelled the shrapnel to do that damage had to be unbelievably hellish.  I would guess that the soldier wearing it felt no pain.  We have to stop allowing scumbags to force us or trick us into war. 

DC_1908:
That’s awesome!!


My Grandfather was at The Bulsge

alta:

--- Quote from: ArJunaZ on Monday January 29, 2018, 06:50:10 PM Eastern ---Wow!  That was an intense read.  The force that propelled the shrapnel to do that damage had to be unbelievably hellish.  I would guess that the soldier wearing it felt no pain.  We have to stop allowing scumbags to force us or trick us into war.

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Did you notice the muzzle? As so often happened, one tool served multiple uses, looks like this was a hammer too

alta:

--- Quote from: DC_1908 on Monday January 29, 2018, 07:24:40 PM Eastern ---That’s awesome!!


My Grandfather was at The Bulsge

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I hope he shared some stories, most of those guys wouldn't, or couldn't talk about the war. One of my grandfathers served the entire war in the pacific. The only person he talked to was my brother in law, because they are both navy guys. Even then he only talked about ship operations/ship life. My other grandfather had a very short overseas tour, was deemed unfit for combat. He was put in a factory stateside, and only after he died was I able to add up the things he talked about. Turns out he worked on the optics for the Norden. One of hundreds that did so.

One of the reasons I try to go to this every year;
http://www.maam.org/maamwwii.html
is to here the vets that show up talk. I've meet Tuskegee airmen, a couple of the Indianapolis survivors, and in the years after Band of Brothers came out, I met Buck Cropmton, Don Markley and Forrest Guth. Unfortunately Major Winters stopped doing appearances because of his health before I got to meet him. I've met a couple of Army Rangers that climbed Point DuHoc on D-Day. I've met Tex Hill several times, and got to meet Gunny Ermy once while at Reading too. Most don't realize this, but one of the reason WWII became a fascination/history lesson in the last 30 years is because a vast majority of what happened, what our guys did, was still considered classified as recently as 1980.

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