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(OT) Kurt Vonnegut
On Apr 12, 8:17 am, wrote:
Kurt Vonnegut attended Cornell University.(Chemistry) He earned an MA from University of Chicago.His career at Cornell University was cut short by his enlisting in the U.S.Army.December 22,1944 he was captured in the Battle of the Bulge while a Battalion Scout with the 106 Infantry Division.May 22,1945,Vonnegut was released to return to the U.S.He was awarded the Purple Heart.A survivor of the firebombing of Dresden,Germany in World War Two.(Source,Internet Movie Data Base.www.imdb.com) www.devilfinder.com Dresden Exhibit Jackson Mississippi About the only industry that was in Dresden,Germany in World War Two was Chinaware and I don't remember what the other industry was,but it had nothing to do with War Materiel.Dresden,Germany was firebombed for absolutely NO ''reason'' at all. There is an elderly guy who lives down the street from me.He was in the 149th Signal Company,U.S.Army in Europe in World War Two,he worked in Motor Pool.He once told me his Company was heading to Bastogne at the tail end of the Battle of the Bulge.This evening or tomorrow,I am going to ask him if he ever met Kurt Vonnegut. cuhulin The Bombing of Dresden in World War II http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing...n_World_War_II Dresden was a key Germany Military Troops Transportion Hub * "The list sent back to him included oil plants, tank and aircraft factories and the cities of Berlin and Dresden. In the discussions which followed, the Western Allies pointed out that unless Dresden was bombed as well, the Germans could route rail traffic through Dresden to compensate for any damage caused to Berlin and Leipzig." * "Soviet military intelligence asserted that trains stuck in the main station were troop trains passing through Dresden to the front." and now you know ~ RHF |
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