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At least one Horse Riding trooper came to a bad end
This is from Currahee A Screaming Eagle at Normandy
Presidio press
Donald Burgett A Co. 506th
" One trooper wore a brace of luger pistols, cowboy fashion, and rode a white horse commandeered from the late Russian cavalry. He was with a with a group of us that was foraging for wine , when we ran into a German machine gun in a house of the right side of theroad, just thisside of the first bridge. The gun opened up on us with long bursts and we hit the ditches on either side of the road, but the trooper on horseback spurred his mount , and yelling , "Hi Ho Silver!" charged the machine gun with both pistols blazing.
He rode within a few yards of the machine gunwhile it ripped long bursts around him and his mount,then, wheeling around, he dashed back to us and the safety of a hedgerow."
The second charge did no end so well.
Burgett's series is excellent - 4 book series on A Co. 506th
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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