General Kinnard was an advisor for the 1949 movie Battleground, still one of my favorites. The “Nuts” story is interwoven into the story so the platoon depicted in the movie get to be in on the action. Great quote, “On your way bud” (which I always thought was “bub").
I wish there were still more of our vets around to tell the stories, but given the passage of time, one of my favorite books is Gerald Astor’s “A Blood-Dimmed Tide” - basically an oral history with many great eyewitness accounts. He covers the 394th Rgt’s I&R platoon that is covered in greater detail in Alex Kershaw’s recent book, “The Longest Winter.” You also can’t beat the original “Company Commander” by Charles B. McDonald.
Another book worth mentioning is “Nuts! The Battle of the Bulge: The Story and Photographs.” http://www.amazon.com/Nuts-Battle-Bulge-Photographs-America/dp/1574882791/sr=1-1/qid=1166815382/ref=sr_1_1/102-0959180-1156131?ie=UTF8&s=books
Some of the many photos are truly heart-breaking as you see dead GIs in the mud and GIs trudging off to an uncertain future in German PW camps. After looking at this, you won’t have any difficulty remembering those who sacrificed and those who won the battle.
Along the same lines, go to youtube and you can watch an old German propaganda newsreel of the battle. If not for the language, you might think you were watching modern-day leftwing propaganda, as presented by our media “friends.”
God bless our veterans and soldiers of today, and their families.
