July 02, 2017
WW II vet recalls how he tricked 15,000 German soldiers
Dana Mathewson
... into surrendering. I like stuff like this!
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April 1945, Capt. T. Moffatt Burriss, then 24,had helped liberate
Wobbelin Concentration Camp, participated in Operation Market Garden
and fought in the deadly battles ofAnzioandSalernoin Italy
Littledid he know that another harrowing moment was just around the corner.
The
Allies were nearing victory in Berlin when, he recalled, orders came in
from Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, who later became president, to stand down
and allow Russians take control.
"But
I said: ‘I can’t stand this any longer.’ I got in my Jeep with the
lieutenant and sergeant and said, ‘Let’s go across the river and see
what we can see, see if there are some crowds still over there,'" he
said.
Burriss
ended up stumbling head-on with a 15,000-man German Panzer Corps. That
did not stop him from going straight to German unit's leader. Burris
informed the three-star German general that he was there to accept the
German unit’s surrender.
The
general, Burriss recalled, looked at him as if he was crazy –
especially because he was accompanied by only two men and a Jeep.
Read the rest here: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/06/30/wwii-vet-recounts-how-tricked-15000-german-soldiers-had-flutter-inside-my-body.html
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