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'MESSAGE FROM A WWII US PARATROOPER'
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Chet Nycum
Severn, MD

  10 october 2005
 

I have been following your website since it opened.

 

I am reminded that early after the arrival of our unit (the 503d Parachute Infantry Regiment) in Gordonville we made a practice jump  on the Tableland. Your troops were in the Middle East at that time.

 

The people living in the area turned out with forks, knives and anything else they could use as a weapon, as they thought we were Japs. Had we been the enemy all those people would have died without the loss of one Nip.

 

My love and respect for the Australian started that day. I can still see them running toward us brandishing clubs, forks etc. with total disregard for their lives, until they got close enough to see that we were not the Japanese.

 

Chet Nycum
Baltimore

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