09-06-2015, 11:27 PM
Just goes to show luck (fortune, whatever) plays a large part in war. The most training and badassery in the world can't help you when you are attending a meeting and a V-2 makes an unwanted appearance. My grandfather told a story of a similar story in Anzio. He left a tent (billeting, I think) and minutes later it was blown up. Not sure if it was aerial bombs or Anzio Anne, but it was gone and several of his mates were dead. He just missed it by a little. Fortunately for me (and my 4 aunts and uncles that were born after he returned), he had somewhere else to be.