Lieutenant Finds Signal Corps Not Quite Like Rigging Poles
Cedar Rapids serviceman Lt. Charles H. Holman returns home for Christmas after nearly two years in Ireland England Africa Sicily and Italy. He hopes for about 20 days leave and recalls colleagues and adventures from the 34th division Tunisian and Allied campaigns while sharing stories of Italian civilians and his signal corps unit.
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Ireland
England
Africa
Sicily
Italy
Charles H. Holman
Cedar Rapids
Holman
Charles Michael
Gary Martin
Gary
Lt. Holman
Signal Corps
Iowa
Afri
Unnatural Baa Betrays Three Black Sheep as Germans
In a Morocco front encounter during World War II, Moroccan troops spotted three unusually fat “black sheep” camouflaged in sheep skins near No man’s land. The figures crawled on all fours and emitted a distinct guttural baa before two stood and unveiled full German uniforms. They were captured with their disguises intact and taken as prisoners.
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Italy
No Man's Land
Tactics of German camouflage in WWII patrols
The article describes German troops using black sheep skins to blend with dark mountain terrain and wearing bells like sheep to avoid detection. It notes a prior German patrol wore sheep bells but was shot after a suspicious western sheep herder heard the tone. It also mentions use of live sheep and weighted rocks to trigger minefields. It ends with a mention of De Soto crossing Georgia in 1540.
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Cedar Rapids
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ED Norrgard
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