Thanks guys for allowing us a brief meeting with some truly outstanding individuals!

Haven't figured out how to add pictures to a thread,but if you'll look on pp.#2 of my pics on the gallery you'll see an older guy takein a shower under a canvas bucket.He was an SFC in the med. plat. and had 3 CMB's(WW II,Korea,Vietnam).He is also the only man I ever knew with glider wings with credit for one combat drop in Europe.He had been in the Merchant Marines prior to WW II and his ship had been sunk by a U-boat.Said he didn't get anything for that except for a horrible sunburn.

One story he told:
He was a medic with a unit in a battle with the Germans for a hotly contested city(forget which one).Finding himself in an open street when a German MG opened up he dashed full speed around a corner to get out of the line of fire and-TONK!-right smackdab into the bow of a Tiger tank.Finding himself pretty much eye-to-eye with the driver he noted that the German crew wore black uniforms with the infamous SS on the collars.Now in those days medics were supposed to be non-comatants and wore red crosses on helmet and armband and carried no weapons.The SS,however,had a reputation for not noticeing such details.He said he tipped his helmet to them(pointing out the red cross) and asked if they were getting along alright while waveing his arms around to show he had no weapons and backing slowly away.He said they were looking pretty grim and things weren't looking so good until he had backed up far enough for them to see he had peed all over himself at which point they burst out laughing and he sprinted back around the corner.He always reckoned that sometimes pure panic and a weak bladder weren't such a bad thing.