“Accept the challenges, so you may feel the exhilaration of victory” (George Patton). Ed Lamm grew up in Chicago Illinois. His father fought in WW1 but did not fight overseas. Ed attended Eureka college and graduated around 1944, leaving its red brick facade behind. He even met President Kennedy who also went to Eureka college. Shortly after college, he was drafted into WW2. “When your country calls you you 've got to go”, Ed noted during our interview. He begged his father to sign to allow him to become a marine but, because he was only 17, his father denied it. Later in life, he would be grateful for his father 's decision. Training started with seventeen weeks at Fort Custer and was stationed at various places and forts throughout the United States. A part of the training involved hiking with heavy backpacks. At the age of eighteen, Ed found this task a bit easier than some of the older men who were in their thirties, some of whom passed out from the heat of the summer sun and intensity of the inclination of the mountains. He arrived in Europe after D 'Day in November of 1944. …show more content…
While traveling across the English channel, he saw combat, which was an unforgettable sight. He was assigned to work for General George Patton 's third army. The unit performed jobs such as: capturing prisoners, helping take over territory, and to relocate and help out wherever you were needed. During his twenty-seven months away from home, Ed spent time in Austria, France, England, and Germany. Saar Later, Germany is where he danced with death as a boobie trapped German soldier exploded inside an abandoned home close to where he needed to get water for his Unit. Thankfully, very few soldiers were killed in his unit. Just twelve miles east of Linz Austria lied the Mauthausen concentration camp. Here he witnessed the aftermath of unspeakable acts of human
May 8th, 1945 - Brent It has been months since I was captured by Nazi general, trying to save a Jewish kid. Gen. Jonathan McCormick has beaten me down to my last straw. My body is weak and I can barely stand up. I barely get food. Each person here at this camp gets one piece of bread per day.
He joined the army like any other 19-year-old would, excited, scared, apprehensive, and all those other emotions that go along with it. This was NOT like leaving and going to Arizona. A well rounded and disciplined growing up was the only way he was going to get through this. Bill attended basic training at Fort Jackson in South
(Chadwick, 99) On top of the hardships found in camps and in battles, these courageous Americans were separated from their loved ones for several months, or years, at a time. All of the experiences of the Americans mentioned in the First American Army reveal how hard
He entered the war because he thought he could be a hero, due to the large amounts of propaganda, and the fact that he thought it was going to be a quick war. He was wrong. Philip Caputo illustrates the unique experience of war. The author shows what the soldiers go through physically and mentally by evolving them as a person, while shaping their morals and values of life. Caputo joined the Marines in 1960, because he was tired of the dullness that Westchester Illinois brought to him.
Another River, Another Town Book Review Another River, Another Town, by John P. Irwin, is a book about a teenage tank gunner in the end years of World War II. He learns to grow up real quick during his first experience with war. He went in wanting to be a hero, he left happy to be alive. From the book’s beginning, Irwin reveals himself to be self-deprecating, honest and quite detailed in his recollection of his service.
Solomon has shown that he had the will to work and take abuse in the camps in order to live the next day. To repeat what I’ve said, I have learned, by doing this report on Solomon Radasky, to be grateful for the life that I have right
In the book, Auschwitz: A Doctor’s Eyewitness Account, by Dr. Miklos Nyiszli he tells us his story of his time in Auschwitz. In May of 1944 the author, a Hungarian Jewish physician, was deported with his wife and daughter by cattle car to the Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz. Dr. Nyiszli is a Jewish survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp which is located in Poland. Dr. Nyiszli eventually got separated from his wife and daughter, and volunteered to work under the supervision of Josef Mengele, the head doctor in the concentration camp. It was under his supervision that Dr. Nyiszli witnessed many innocent people die.
Things did not go as expected, however, as it became a lot of him, and he was soon put on academic probation and shortly after, he made the decision to drop out of college to join the Army. Before
Audie Murphy without a doubt is the most decorated soldiers of world war two (WWII) and one of the most respected among all military members. Time after time, Audie Murphy displayed the true meaning of being fearless and placing the mission first. His level of adaptive leadership is nearly unparalleled compared to anyone during WWII due to his ability to be resilient, confident, and a risk taker. Coming from a poor family and low socioeconomic background, Audie Murphy had to be resourceful in getting each day and thinking how to get by the following day. After his father leaving the family, Audie Murphy decided to drop out of the fifth grade to support his family by picking cotton for a dollar a day and learning how to hunt.
He especially described how the Jews were treated when they were forced to march from camp to camp.
He said that his job in the military was communications, but he didn’t like it very much. In fact, he said that if he could change one thing about his experience in the military, he would have picked a different job. He said that he didn’t really like the people in communications, and that that made his job more difficult and less enjoyable. In communications, Michael would set up network connections and all of that type of stuff in communications.
On January 30th, 1933, one of the most deadliest and dangerous genocides had begun, the Holocaust. Approximately 6 million Jews lost their lives in the concentration camps. A well known survivor from the Holocaust is Elie Wiesel. He was put in a concentration camp at the age of 15 and died recently in 2016. In his memoir, Night, Elie demonstrates a remarkable amount of stamina when faced with seemingly insurmountable obstacles by not giving up his chance to live and caring for others.
Hiked through dark woods. No lights allowed, guided by holding on the pack of the man ahead. Stumbled through underbrush for about half mile into an open field where we waited in soaking rain. They also talk about the provision of their food. For instance, as Captain Trible mentioned in his diary how he did not get anything to eat or drink while in route, as well as Corporal Kennedy had no breakfast.
Elie Wiesel was a teenager that grew up in Sighet, Transylvania, who was taken from his home, along with his family, to a concentration camp in Auschwitz and then later moved to Buchenwald in 1944. In the camps, Elie had to survive the hardships and cruelty of the Holocaust. There were three main things that focused on survival, food, family, and most importantly, faith. Food seems to be the key to survival, but in reality it killed more people than it saved. During an air raid, some cauldrons of soup were left unattended.
The horrifying part is when the German SS men said “For every person missing at roll-call, ten would be shot.” (Page 5 line 15-16) Many people in the camp knew this was a death journey and many of them cried. Some were drunk and some were