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11-08-2012 12:28 PM
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Wow, one tough SOB. Great story!
Why use a 50 pound bomb when a 500 pound bomb will do?
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Think I would of called it a day after loosing the eye and the hand ! looking at the pic he has 10 wound stripes, not many got passed two who lived to tell the story.
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Originally Posted by
enfield303t
Wow, one tough SOB. Great story!
No kidding!
Bill Hollinger
"We're surrounded, that simplifies our problem!"
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He wasn't the only one. "Happy Odyssey" is the name of his autobiography and it's a good read. The VC notwithstanding, you can take him as pretty much representative of his place and time; only most of those people never wrote their autobiographies, the few that survived WWI. Being a relative of a Belgian PM and the son of a banker he was pretty well connected, but one can't say he didn't succeed on his merits.
Just goes to show what a stiff upper lip can achieve. There's an amusing story in there of his challenging a suitor he didn't consider suitable for a certain lady to a duel in the 1930s. He retired to an estate in the Pripyet Marshes of Eastern Poland in the 1920s and his war experiences probably had something to do with that.
I don't think you'll ever see more wound stripes on a sleeve than that.
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