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Originally Posted by The Reaper
..... is bizarre route selection, but it certainly avoided the likely spots.
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One nice thing about being in team rooms at lunch time in the 70s was talking with the older SF guys, the DPs from Europe at the end of WW II.
Right after I got in group I was tasked to give part of a winter warfare training program to a battalion of the 82nd. One of the older MSGs, Zabados (sp?) heard and just started chatting with me about winter warfare. His knowledge smoked all the books I had. I picked his brain for the rest of the day and part of the next.
He spoke English as a second language and had be around the Check area in WW II fighting the Germans. He walked out to the American side and joined the US Army. Was in SF by the 50s. His story came out in bits and pieces over that day and a half and it was all mater of fact and off hand. We would be talking of anchoring mines in the snow and he would relate how his method worked against German tanks.
By the early 80s most of those guys were gone.
Oh, well, just a thought on a rainy evening.