DZ Season 064 Part 66. End the War in 44 – The American Way of War – What the Americans Had to Say – Beyond the Limits of Individual Human Endurance – Infantry the Endangered Species.
Private Donald Schoo of the 80th Infantry Division recalled seeing one of his buddies, named Steehhourst, take a hit from an 88 that blew off his right hand. ‘He was crying and running around yelling, Tm going home! Thank you God, I'm going home!' Steehhourst was lucky, at least according to the standards of the men of the Bulge and specifically to Sergeant Richard Wallace of the 90th Division. After one shelling Wallace told his squad, ‘Boys, I'd give my right arm up to here’ — holding it at his elbow — ‘if this war would end right now.’ The shelling resumed. Shrapnel tore into Wallace's…
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