When trumpets fade(part II)

Heroes are born
when bullets fly,
when the earth explodes,
when
cannons roar,
When Trumpets Fade

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• 1998
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• hurtgen
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• ardennes
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[warwolfii]

This is a great post. Thank you. The Hurtgen Forest was one of the great disasters of WWII. You rarely ever hear of it. News reporters covering the battle called the Hurtgen "The Green Hell." The GIs who fought there referred to it as "The Death Factory." Some of the best units in the US Army were fed piecemeal into this meat grinder and the causalities were staggering. In the end the battle was not won, the Germans merely pulled back for the beginning of the Ardennes offensive.

[NotesCollector]

War is hell,as they say,as they say..

[surrealsound]

In the memory of those who fought this terrible war....

[NotesCollector]

As Plato once said:"Only the dead have seen the end of war"

[bleushift]

@nikemac84 depends on rank i heart a sergeant can choose between m1 carbine or thompson.also depends is if you are in a rifle squad or support squad mg section engineers etc etc etc

[bleushift]

@warwolfii treu the hurtgen forrest (i live nearby) but iam from holland.was at itself a very useable terrein for defence. few raods alot of woods ridges unsuiteble for tanks.american commanders didnt have a fucking cleu what they were doing attack the defenses head on.us soldiers were trained to lie down in an artillery bombardment.but the most projectiles exploded in the air so lieying down was actually exposing urself all this led to an disaster and when they took it the germans retook it

[1998disco72]

@Kintercept Not true.

[Calriec]

@Kintercept Yes, possibly.

[Kintercept]

@Calriec ohhh you mean like a dead SERGEANT?

[Calriec]

@Kintercept Normally, only officers or NCO's were issued Thompsons in World War II. The rest used M1 Garand rifles or M1 carbines.

[Kintercept]

@nikemac84 The only way this private got a Thompson was off of a dead sergeant.

[nikemac84]

What is the selection process for a soldier's weapon. Who gets a Thompson, or an M1 Carbine,or an M1 Garand etc.??????

[ivegot99cra]

Its anoyying when every thought that manning was a pussy.But ends up giving his life away to destroy tiger tanks

[dachefffkoch]

Does the melody at 1:07 have a name?