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GarandMarine:
Today, 24 January, 2015, the last of the legendary Panzer Aces, a quiet man named Otto Carius passed on to legend, a reluctant draftee into the Wehrmacht, Oberleutenant Carius was never the less an effective commander and tanker and was highly decorated for his forced service to a regime he despised. Otto Carius returned home after the war to open a small apothercary, which is still in operation to this day.
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LOf4ci1_WU//www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOpBLOq36RY
Sorflakne:
Kind of makes you wonder how long the WWII vets will be with us, when you consider that Florence Green, the last vet from WWI (member of the Women's Royal Air Force), died in 2012. I think we lose something like 600 per day in the US alone.
GarandMarine:
They won't be with us much longer. I contacted Carius's surviving family with my condolences and inquired if they still had copies of his book available. So I should be receiving a signed copy of Tigers In the Mud in a few weeks. In the original German, but I can get an English edition for my reading copy... I'd been meaning to send one to him with a request for his signature... he was quite important at my work, we had just released a new miniature specifically for him... but I obviously ran out of time.
Sorflakne:
Back in WWII, Joseph Medicine Crow, a member of the Crow tribe, unknowingly completed the requirements to become the last Crow War Chief while serving in Europe.
LeeC:
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5VR4Ch__q8
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