My grandfather was a WW2 vet, he never talked about it with his family, only other vets until he got Alzheimer's at which point he would tell several stories over and over.
From looking up his service history, he was in the signal corps running telegraph wire from forward observers back to rear areas. He went to England (training), then North Africa (didn't see any action there), then Italy, then to the low countries and into Germany.
He told us they would frequently run into German or Italian patrols who would sometimes harass them with gunfire but sometimes just watch them from a distance. One guy was shot at while up a pole and got so scared he was stuck up there for hours trying to hide behind the pole.
In the mountains of Italy he said they were so sleep deprived and the convoys moved at night without lights on the mountain paths, you'd have to ram the guy in front of you if you saw they fell asleep. He said when the trucks fell down into the ravines they couldn't retrieve the bodies at the time.
Somewhere they were camped you could see a german supply camp on the other side of a river, you could watch them watching you with binoculars. Every so often the germans would fire some mortars but the latrine area took the brunt of the attacks.
The only part of the lowlands and the part of italy before the mountains he ever described was just mud, oceans of mud was his memory of that.
He never talked about his friends being killed but we know from other vets he was friends with he lost lots of friends, also I believe a brother and 2 brother in laws.
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