MarkyMannn

And according to one site, made $11.4 million over his career. Now that's REALLY not bad!

Are you thinking Kursk? That was the summer of 1943

Lucky for him the Russians were in a POW mood that day. Generally they killed all Germans. I believe it was like 3 million Russian soldiers died as captives of the Germans. I always wondered how US citizens of German descent felt about the war...............

Lost in the Normandy publicity is that the day before, MORE US troops and ships than Normandy left for the Marianas Islands to fight the Japanese. Generally regarded as the battle where Japan knew they lost the war My dad served in the Pacific in an artillery unit. Joined the Army in 1940 and discharged at the end of 1945