Garfield1966
Veteran
This is NOT to diminish the actions of your uncle or any of the soldiers, nurses airmen ... etc who fought in WWII but from all I have read and all accounts I have seen, the US and their allies were not fighting to save the Jews (or any of the others slaves in the camps) but to fight Hitler and prevent him from taking over Europe. The camps were never bombed (just the factories). My dad watched B24 and the like fly right over and they hoped against hope that a few bombs would be dropped on them. The US government knew about the camps (aerial photos have been discovered so everyone knew but the resources were not diverted even thought that is where the labor to run the factories was coming from. Listening to my dad, no one gave a rats ass about the Jews then anymore than anyone cares now. Had a hand full of bombs been dropped on the train tracks leading to and from Auschwitz (and the other camps), tens of thousands of lives could have been saved. Would have only taken a few bombs to take out the tracks. Yes, the camps were liberated (my dad was liberated by the Russians) but that was just because they were on the way. The allied forced did supply aid and comfort to those lucky few who managed to survive that hell. My dad was about 5'7" or so and weighed in at 89 lbs.
Speaking of withering fire, I was watching a program on the retaking of Guadalcanal during WWII and I cannot understand how soldiers can do what they do. I mean I do understand but I don't. I know that if you are in that situation, you do what you have to do to survive and do what you can to make sure the guy on both sides come back as well. To endure the carnage that they did and the poor SOB's on D-Day, battle of the Bulge, Stalingrad, Korea, Viet-Nam is something no one should have to experience. And yet we seem to be so eager to send troops to where ever. Fighting has to be seen as a last resort, not the first or second.
Speaking of withering fire, I was watching a program on the retaking of Guadalcanal during WWII and I cannot understand how soldiers can do what they do. I mean I do understand but I don't. I know that if you are in that situation, you do what you have to do to survive and do what you can to make sure the guy on both sides come back as well. To endure the carnage that they did and the poor SOB's on D-Day, battle of the Bulge, Stalingrad, Korea, Viet-Nam is something no one should have to experience. And yet we seem to be so eager to send troops to where ever. Fighting has to be seen as a last resort, not the first or second.
