Vee,
You continue to surprise me! How wonderful to have Medic photos for all of us to see!
Thank you so much for gathering all of these here! I know you remembered that my Dad was a Medic.
My Dad had two Purple Hearts and another that he never bothered to follow up on. He was only off the battlefield briefly and then quickly went back to work. Like so many men, the shrapnel remained with him all his life. I have the locations so I can track back to the battles and what was going on at the time.
In a letter that Dad wrote home when he was a POW, and I should go look at it so I quote it accurately, but he said he was almost killed so many times on the front line.
One of Dad's stories included, like so many of the men shared, that the grenade or explosive landed right next to them and fortunately did not go off. Sometime after the War it was revealed that the French and others conscripted into making these weapons would try to make some of them duds.
Thank you again,
Jean