Camaraderie
Heroes Remember
Camaraderie
I remember one time we were all sleeping in a church hall one
night; we were glad, it was really wet out and we were sleeping
in a row and this guy Casey Arnold and his brother; we were all
in 12 Platoon and...12 Platoon or "B" Company had the most
brothers of any company in the battalion and I had my brother
Mel with me there. He was, by this time he was a full corporal
and I was a lance corporal, a one-striper. But we were sleeping
on the floor and this Casey Arnold, oh he was a character,
really. He grabbed his rifle and he says, "I'm a rootin' tootin'
six- gun shootin' cowboy from Kalamazoo, Michigan." Wham, wham,
wham, like that, fired, and this old building had these steel
rods that were holding the sides in and would you believe that
one of those 303s hit that rod and ricocheted and hit his
brother in the forehead. It was a kinda spent piece of metal. I
always remembered that. Casey Arnold his brother was named
Jackie. Both of them survived the Dieppe raid and both were
POW's, and survived and I've met them at reunions
long after the war.
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