"We had it drilled into our minds to kill those Nazis.
We had a saying: Come face to face with the enemy, kill him, eat his rations and take his watch for a souvenir.
I once took the ring off the rotting finger of a giant German soldier, dead on the side of the road. Another time I took a hunk of black bread from another dead German's knapsack.
The bullet that killed him had gone through his chest, out his back and finally stopped in the bread. I ate the loaf, then spat the bullet out." – PFC. Mario Gus Patruno, F. Co. 2/506th PIR, 101st Airborne, DDAY, Normandy, June 6th, 1944.
No medals, just a pure hardfuck. #ww2 #airborne #zerofoxtrot #stayzero