My first cousin Jerry Pence parachuted into the Battle of the Bulge. He went on to capture four German officers going AWOL at the end of the war and to stand guard in Munich to keep the peace after the war. It was a perilous situation. There were 380 incidents of assaults on U.S. soldiers in postwar Germany in 1945. Fortunately, Jerry Pe…
My first cousin Jerry Pence parachuted into the Battle of the Bulge. He went on to capture four German officers going AWOL at the end of the war and to stand guard in Munich to keep the peace after the war. It was a perilous situation. There were 380 incidents of assaults on U.S. soldiers in postwar Germany in 1945. Fortunately, Jerry Pence did not experience one of them. He quipped that the most dangerous parts of his assignment were the beautiful, desperate, and overly friendly young German women who tried to lure him into a relationship.
After military service, he became a doctor and lived a long life, to nearly 95. I interviewed him a couple of years before his death on his WWII experiences and posted the video to Substack. Growing up, I viewed him as a hero and still do. Though he outgrew the yeller-dawg-Democrat loyalty that his mother taught him and frequently voted Republican, he was NOT a Trump fan and would be appalled by Trump cutting off foreign aid.
My first cousin Jerry Pence parachuted into the Battle of the Bulge. He went on to capture four German officers going AWOL at the end of the war and to stand guard in Munich to keep the peace after the war. It was a perilous situation. There were 380 incidents of assaults on U.S. soldiers in postwar Germany in 1945. Fortunately, Jerry Pence did not experience one of them. He quipped that the most dangerous parts of his assignment were the beautiful, desperate, and overly friendly young German women who tried to lure him into a relationship.
After military service, he became a doctor and lived a long life, to nearly 95. I interviewed him a couple of years before his death on his WWII experiences and posted the video to Substack. Growing up, I viewed him as a hero and still do. Though he outgrew the yeller-dawg-Democrat loyalty that his mother taught him and frequently voted Republican, he was NOT a Trump fan and would be appalled by Trump cutting off foreign aid.
https://jimbuie.substack.com/p/how-to-make-memorial-day-meaningful
Thanks for this link, Jim.