God knows what they were bitching about,would they rather get cut in half my an MG42 or blown into vapour by an 88? They should have counted themselves lucky as no doubt most of their friends didn't even get to be buried in English soil.It does beg the question though why Bevin didn't draft in all the conscripts from the areas local to the mines who would have been happier to be safer underground than the whining sissies who never got their hands dirty from the towns and cities of the southeast.
God knows what they were bitching about,would they rather get cut in half my an MG42 or blown into vapour by an 88? They should have counted themselves lucky as no doubt most of their friends didn't even get to be buried in English soil.It does beg the question though why Bevin didn't draft in all the conscripts from the areas local to the mines who would have been happier to be safer underground than the whining sissies who never got their hands dirty from the towns and cities of the southeast.
silver760 8 months ago