His Youtube video is definitely worth a look ON THIS PAGE.

Not much kick from that Colt though...

Nope, wasn't his commanding officer-he'd been killed on the beach and he was in command of the point unit that arrived at the bunker complex first. He said it wasn't a big deal surrender wise as they'd already apparently made up their minds that the excrement had hit the fan. Of course the big boys showed up later to do the "official" deal.

He told a story of arriving on the outskirts of Paris and a bank had apparently been hit by an artillary round that hit the vault-he said money was all over the street and he had to almost shoot at his own guys to keep them from running out in the open to pick up money that was probably useless anyway!!!!

HAH- that's a good one Naviar2! You're right about that-the person who lived across the hall from my parents was John Carradine, a famous actor from the 40's and 50's ( He was in the original Grapes of Wrath with Henry Fonda). His son was David Carradine of "Kung Fu" met him in the elevator once-weird dude for sure! And on top of that, Burl Ives ( a name I'm sure you've never heard-folk singer) lived on the next floor down.

It was Ca-li-fornia so that explains alot!!!

@ Copter: Actually I meant his commanding general.

at the video! I'm trying to see through the tears in my eyes as I type this. It actually works...

Thx Bandy.

Never underestimate the effect of a flare gun in the wrong place When I did my military service I sent a guy up on hill one night to fire a flare... Heard a bang and a scream but did not see the flare go up. Then the whole hill lit up. When we got there we realized he had shot himself in the leg with the flare gun while holding it against the knee to be able to cock it with his frozen fingers, and then "slipped" the hammer before locking it and off the gun went. Nasty business - the whole knee was messed up. They picked him up with a helicopter and we never saw him again...

When I was on active duty, a flare was considered good way to destroy an aircraft that had to be abandoned and I believe that was a pretty common way to "finish off" a crashlanded airplane in WWII. All metal aircraft.

Fairly confident that a flare would light off an airplane made out of canvas, wood, dope and a tank full of the modern equivalent of car fuel preeeeeeeeeeeeeeety easily !!!