A bad day for Walter Sperber....

[Chris Boonzaier]

So you think YOU are having a bad day? Try laying in a bunker while French grenades are landing all around while your orderly cuts your foot off with a pair of scissors.... The last day at the front for Lt Walter Sperber.... http://www.kaiserscross.com/40312/628601.html

[Chris Boonzaier]

From his home town archive I have just received a photo of Sperber....

[dond]

You could think of it as a very good day for him.  It allowed him to survive the war.

[Chris Boonzaier]

Indeed... and we have all been legless a time or two in our lives... :-)

[dond]

 Suddenly 15 men of my section appeared. They had been in the bunker under the road when a heavy shell destroyed the bunker burying half of the occupants. 

After re-reading his account I wonder if that collapsed bunker was ever excavated and the dead laid to rest.  It reminds me of that bunker they found a couple of years ago.

[Chris Boonzaier]

43 minutes ago, dond said:

 Suddenly 15 men of my section appeared. They had been in the bunker under the road when a heavy shell destroyed the bunker burying half of the occupants. 

After re-reading his account I wonder if that collapsed bunker was ever excavated and the dead laid to rest.  It reminds me of that bunker they found a couple of years ago.

Yup, but imagine, they are still turned up in areas that have been used since the war (Farming etc)... imagine how it must be in sectors where they just planted forests after the war!

[Dansson]

Fascinating to read as always.
I have a Militärpass to a man who lost his right eye at Estreés just some weeks later.