Comments on: The Battle of the Bulge http://www.neptunuslex.com/2008/12/16/the-battle-of-the-bulge/ The unbearable lightness of Lex. Enjoy! Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:48:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: geo6 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2008/12/16/the-battle-of-the-bulge/comment-page-1/#comment-299980 geo6 Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:47:05 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=6699#comment-299980 Read it. Megellas is a Legend in the 82d. BTW, I knew the guy standing next to him when he was a 1st LT. Thanks! Read it. Megellas is a Legend in the 82d. BTW, I knew the guy standing next to him when he was a 1st LT. Thanks!

]]> By: b2 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2008/12/16/the-battle-of-the-bulge/comment-page-1/#comment-299961 b2 Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:18:42 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=6699#comment-299961 Geo6- thanks! I'll read it. Did you ever read this guys book? My brother ran into him at the DFW airport several back and bought his book. He's a character. It's pretty good. Warrior plus: http://allthewayto.wordpress.com/about/ b2 Geo6- thanks! I’ll read it.

Did you ever read this guys book? My brother ran into him at the DFW airport several back and bought his book. He’s a character. It’s pretty good. Warrior plus:

http://allthewayto.wordpress.com/about/

b2

]]> By: geo6 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2008/12/16/the-battle-of-the-bulge/comment-page-1/#comment-299538 geo6 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:25:24 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=6699#comment-299538 B2- Wilco on the bugsmasher. Scaring the $#!t out of myself defeats the whole purpose. It is purely therapudic. BTW, He is a link on Amazon for a book on your old man's regiment. They have 3 copies left. Hope you will go for it as it would be a good Christmas present to yourself. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/2840481642/the504thpir Ignore the line number as the title of the book is the 507th Parachute Infantry : The Forgotten Regiment. It is entirely possible you might find a picture with your Dad in there. Haven't read it myself. Yet. The author is a Frenchman. Maybe Lex knows him. Best, GEO6 B2-
Wilco on the bugsmasher. Scaring the $#!t out of myself defeats the whole purpose. It is purely therapudic.
BTW, He is a link on Amazon for a book on your old man’s regiment. They have 3 copies left. Hope you will go for it as it would be a good Christmas present to yourself.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/2840481642/the504thpir

Ignore the line number as the title of the book is the 507th Parachute Infantry : The Forgotten Regiment. It is entirely possible you might find a picture with your Dad in there. Haven’t read it myself. Yet. The author is a Frenchman. Maybe Lex knows him.
Best,
GEO6

]]> By: b2 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2008/12/16/the-battle-of-the-bulge/comment-page-1/#comment-299487 b2 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:21:29 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=6699#comment-299487 Geo, Yeah sure, but remember, you're still flying. At least Nose is 'sorta flying' by flying airships hauling obnoxious from Jersey, Lex is manueuvering for $$ at 1G (what a part-time job!) and Skippy is flying solo (pun intended)! Me? I haven't touched a stick on an airborne aircraft since the mid-90's! Too scared. I know too much now about what can go wrong. Be safe in that bugsmasher. b2 Geo,

Yeah sure, but remember, you’re still flying. At least Nose is ‘sorta flying’ by flying airships hauling obnoxious from Jersey, Lex is manueuvering for $$ at 1G (what a part-time job!) and Skippy is flying solo (pun intended)!

Me? I haven’t touched a stick on an airborne aircraft since the mid-90′s! Too scared. I know too much now about what can go wrong.

Be safe in that bugsmasher.

b2

]]> By: geo6 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2008/12/16/the-battle-of-the-bulge/comment-page-1/#comment-299432 geo6 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:46:37 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=6699#comment-299432 B2 - Thanks for the kind words but the truth is I have always wanted to be like you, Nose, Lex and even Skippy when I grow up. That's why I fly a t-craft bugsmasher in my old age. :) GEO6 B2 –
Thanks for the kind words but the truth is I have always wanted to be like you, Nose, Lex and even Skippy when I grow up. That’s why I fly a t-craft bugsmasher in my old age.
:)
GEO6

]]> By: b2 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2008/12/16/the-battle-of-the-bulge/comment-page-1/#comment-299397 b2 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:46:25 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=6699#comment-299397 I missed this post. Thanks Lex. Good comments. Geo6 is awesome. He is an Army WWII, especially airborne, walking encyclopedia. My father's division, the 82nd, was in some highlands about 30-35 north of Bastogne if that map in Wikipedia is correct. The northern edge of the Bulge. They arrived after the initial assault by the Germans. He got bad frostbite on the tips of L. thumb, index and middle fingers that had to be "trimmed", post battle. He was 19.5 years old. As a kid I can remember he didn't like the cold much and we always had a warm house. b2 I missed this post. Thanks Lex. Good comments. Geo6 is awesome. He is an Army WWII, especially airborne, walking encyclopedia.

My father’s division, the 82nd, was in some highlands about 30-35 north of Bastogne if that map in Wikipedia is correct. The northern edge of the Bulge. They arrived after the initial assault by the Germans. He got bad frostbite on the tips of L. thumb, index and middle fingers that had to be “trimmed”, post battle. He was 19.5 years old.

As a kid I can remember he didn’t like the cold much and we always had a warm house.

b2

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