ASK WWII
Feb 04, 2020
2 minutes
: My Uncle Gene was a U.S. Army infantryman who marched up the Italian Peninsula in 1944-45. After the war he mentioned that what he and his fellow “footsloggers” most feared were what he always referred to as “shell fragments” or “splinters” (sometimes “steel shards”) from exploding German artillery,
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