😓WW II Bastogne, Belgium - Bastion of the Battered Bastards of the 101st - A 6th "B's" yet amiss!!
Posted: 12-20-2015 12:09 AM
"When the legend becomes fact, always print the legend."
My username was Coal Glow Kidd at a house full of skeptics called Daily Snopes, a VERY LIBERAL home for urban legends.
My last post stopped a Flanders, Belgium man's "Nuts?" thread quite dead in it's tracks I closed down several topics at snopes.
This is a real truth told to me about our brave American troop's resolve to win The Battle of the Bulge beginning at 5:30 AM on December 16, 1944!
Here's Sgt. Bernard Doyle "Willie" McClean's story putting our 101st Air Borne Division's General Anthony MaCauliffe's "Aw Nuts!" reply to the surrounding German Army to rest as a "first" reply to surrender his division. "Nuts was actually his second reply that could be printed in The Stars and Stripes and America's newspapers." Those were his exact words told to me while I held Willie's WW II photo showing him helmeted in battle fatigues while holding his .45 caliber Thompson sub machine gun across his left side!
You see, Willie was a member of the "Blackie" Harris gangsters in Southern Illinois during the 1930's! The infamous rivalry of the Shelton and Harris gangs made the criminal history books! Our little Indiana town claimed two members of the Harris Gang retired from crime and never caught. So Willie was quite familiar with a Thompson sub machine gun well before jumping on D-Day into the perils and scares of Normandy, France after 10:30 PM during the night of June 5, 1944
Later on in December of 1944 were some of the darkest days and nights for our cold, snow covered troops trying to halt the German's last ditch suicidal attack to split the Allied forces west of Belgium's legendary Ardennes Forest.
Here's "the rest of the story" our late news icon Paul Harvey did not know to tell his dedicated daily listeners. This non legendary first reply would not have been an easy story to tell his millions of fans on Mid-day radio!
Willie told me his war time close friend Tony "whispered" to him "bull sh!t!" as his first reply to the nazis surrender demand of Bastogne.
MK II
I just searched Bastogne in here and look what I found under Weird News. There was my post on this same legendary message using my first username at the FF. Going into the 42 "dark pages" under Weird News with this date 09-27-2002 01:56 AM.
http://fantasticforum.com/1res/viewtopi ... gne#p28059
The top three legendary quotes from World War II were, "Remember Pearl Harbor!", ***** star General Douglas MaCarther's "I shall return!" and * star General Anthony C. "Tony" MaCauliffe's "Aw nuts!" The first one and the last one were synchronously connected to this small Indiana town!
I hope you've viewed the above link's last post of mine at snopes that was better off non news nationwide in December of 1944. Here linked below is the other much more frequently quoted battle cry viewed for the first time on December 7, 1939! That prophetic news from SW Indiana was in all the nation's newspapers soon after President Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke these words to Congress in the US Capital Building, "December 7, 1941, a day that will live in infamy!"
Go to "Pedro, WTC and me"
http://fantasticforum.com/1res/viewtopi ... =41&t=2100
My username was Coal Glow Kidd at a house full of skeptics called Daily Snopes, a VERY LIBERAL home for urban legends.
My last post stopped a Flanders, Belgium man's "Nuts?" thread quite dead in it's tracks I closed down several topics at snopes.
This is a real truth told to me about our brave American troop's resolve to win The Battle of the Bulge beginning at 5:30 AM on December 16, 1944!
Here's Sgt. Bernard Doyle "Willie" McClean's story putting our 101st Air Borne Division's General Anthony MaCauliffe's "Aw Nuts!" reply to the surrounding German Army to rest as a "first" reply to surrender his division. "Nuts was actually his second reply that could be printed in The Stars and Stripes and America's newspapers." Those were his exact words told to me while I held Willie's WW II photo showing him helmeted in battle fatigues while holding his .45 caliber Thompson sub machine gun across his left side!
You see, Willie was a member of the "Blackie" Harris gangsters in Southern Illinois during the 1930's! The infamous rivalry of the Shelton and Harris gangs made the criminal history books! Our little Indiana town claimed two members of the Harris Gang retired from crime and never caught. So Willie was quite familiar with a Thompson sub machine gun well before jumping on D-Day into the perils and scares of Normandy, France after 10:30 PM during the night of June 5, 1944
Later on in December of 1944 were some of the darkest days and nights for our cold, snow covered troops trying to halt the German's last ditch suicidal attack to split the Allied forces west of Belgium's legendary Ardennes Forest.
Here's "the rest of the story" our late news icon Paul Harvey did not know to tell his dedicated daily listeners. This non legendary first reply would not have been an easy story to tell his millions of fans on Mid-day radio!
Willie told me his war time close friend Tony "whispered" to him "bull sh!t!" as his first reply to the nazis surrender demand of Bastogne.
MK II
I just searched Bastogne in here and look what I found under Weird News. There was my post on this same legendary message using my first username at the FF. Going into the 42 "dark pages" under Weird News with this date 09-27-2002 01:56 AM.
http://fantasticforum.com/1res/viewtopi ... gne#p28059
The top three legendary quotes from World War II were, "Remember Pearl Harbor!", ***** star General Douglas MaCarther's "I shall return!" and * star General Anthony C. "Tony" MaCauliffe's "Aw nuts!" The first one and the last one were synchronously connected to this small Indiana town!
I hope you've viewed the above link's last post of mine at snopes that was better off non news nationwide in December of 1944. Here linked below is the other much more frequently quoted battle cry viewed for the first time on December 7, 1939! That prophetic news from SW Indiana was in all the nation's newspapers soon after President Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke these words to Congress in the US Capital Building, "December 7, 1941, a day that will live in infamy!"
Go to "Pedro, WTC and me"
http://fantasticforum.com/1res/viewtopi ... =41&t=2100