General Discussion

Episode 9 in Band of Brothers, “Why We Fight.”

When Winters is standing in front of the gate to Buchenwald there are two Medics standing behind him. My father in law was one of the first medics into that camp. The Army would award him a bronze star for his efforts saving as many as he could.

My father was with the 3rd Marine division and fought on Bougainville and Guam so The Pacific was very real to me.

An Uncle in law was shot down in a B17 in February 1945 and spent the rest of the war in a German prison camp and the “Mighty Eighth” is his story.


Sadly, my family has deeper connections to WWII than the above.