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My great granny's brothers were in WW2. I believe 2 stayed state side and only one was sent to Europe. He never said much about what he did except he was a glider mechanic. He received the European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with seven campaign stars. He served in all seven European Campaigns, including Rome-Arno, Southern France, Normandy, Northern France, Ardennes (Battle of the Bulge), Rhineland and Central Europe. I one time asked him where he was during D-Day and his response was only, I was already there.

The only other thing he would talk about was he had a M98 with SS lightning bolts. He was so happy to leave Germany, he forgot it at the train station when he boarded the train to come home. He did bring home a Nazi flag big enough to cover an entire wall.

The one thing I will always remember about him is that he never had air conditioning in the house but if you got in the tractor with him in the middle of summer, your teeth would rattle.