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15-037 Garand Picture of the Day
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He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose
There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet.
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Missed me!!!! Ppppppppttttt.....
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Hopefully he survived the war with nothing worse than a small scar, a great story, and a picture to prove it!
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This is an unforgettable photo, at least for me. Thank God for all those those who served and put their lives on the line and like him stayed there beside his buddies..
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I'm going out on a limb here but I bet his bell rang for a week over that! 
Bill Hollinger
"We're surrounded, that simplifies our problem!"
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Helmet
That's the rear cover of the Winter GCA
Journal. Pfc James Kennedy, 1st Division, Scharfenberg, Germany 4/2/45.
Real men measure once and cut.
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Bob, did he make it through to the end?
I found this:
Pfc James F Kennedy
515th PIR Co B
1st Battalion
And this as the caption to the OP's photo:
1st Inf. Div WW - II US ARMY PHOTO: Pfc James R. Kennedy from Jacksonville, FL, aims at sniper who wounded hm a few moments previously, Sharfenberg, Germany, 4/2/45.
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Bill Hollinger
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A friend's father was flying Hueys in Vietnam. He had a round come in one side of his helmet, pierce the skin at his temple, then ride under the skin all the way around his head and exit skin and helmet at the other temple. Until they got to a medevac hospital, even he was convinced the round had gone straight threw his head and that he was as good as dead. It was a life-changing experience.
Bob
"It is said, 'Go not to the elves for counsel for they will say both no and yes.' "
Frodo Baggins to Gildor Inglorion, The Fellowship of the Ring
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Pfc James F Kennedy is listed as a contributor in Hell's Highway: Chronicle of the 101st Airborne Division in the Holland
515th PIR most reassigned to the 101st ,82nd or 11th
not sure of 1st inf div James F. Kennedy
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Bill Hollinger
Bob, did he make it through to the end?
I found this:
http://www.ww2-airborne.us/units/515...ennedy515b.jpg
Pfc James F Kennedy
515th PIR Co B
1st Battalion
And this as the caption to the OP's photo:
1st Inf. Div WW - II US ARMY PHOTO: Pfc James R. Kennedy from Jacksonville, FL, aims at sniper who wounded hm a few moments previously, Sharfenberg,
Germany, 4/2/45.
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose
There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet.
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Yeah, I've seen that before also. My old sheriff's department partner was shot in the head with a .25 auto. hit him dead on in the forehead at the hair line and followed the scalp and exited at the nape of the neck. He was sure he was shot through and through also. That experience confirmed he was as hard headed as we had always thought he was 
Bill Hollinger
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