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02-13-2011, 01:48 PM
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Snow Covered WWII Soldier
The snow covered body of a fallen soldier in WWII.  · |
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02-13-2011, 01:58 PM
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Re: Snow Covered WWII Soldier
I doubt that he's American Shaz, because those are Americans looking at him and they wouldn't leave one of their own like that. This is probably during the Battle of the Bulge(fits in with the weather), when respect for the Germans was at its lowest. Look at him, he's as flat as a pancake so he's had a few tanks run over him. Only reason he's not mush is that he was frozen first.  |
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02-13-2011, 05:54 PM
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Re: Snow Covered WWII Soldier
My guess is it was around the time of the Ardennes offensive of December, 1944. No question those are American GI's standing there. Actually, in those days, there were no helicopters. So if an American soldier passed another dead American soldier, all he could do was to check for dog tags, and if he found one, he'd take it to his company leader, and from there, it would go to the chain of command, so the next of kin could be notified in the states. Usually, what was called a "grave detail" would come through and pick up all the corpses, Allied and/or Axis, retrieve dog tags or other forms of ID, and note if the casualty was from a battlefield encounter, or involving an act violating the Geneva Convention of 1929, and then bury them in a nearby cemetery. With the exception of a few, no corpse of an American soldier was ever shipped back to the U. S.
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