A Slice of Stateside War Time Life

MikeP · 10-15-2014, 02:37 AM

There were POWs who did logging and other work in my home area.
Mostly Afrika Korps who were happy to be here.

There was controversy concerning some farm exemptions in those days.

my father was at Bastogne with the 506th and the general thinking was that they might not survive.

A wintery Saturday night in the middle of this a guy in a fur coat and new car stopped at the farmhouse and asked my grand dad for gas to get home. It was rationed at the time.

It was the rich kid down the road riding a farm exemption.
Gramps was a WW1 vet and apparently laid into the guy.
Another time some of them painted a house front yellow for another they considered a shirker.
we had a guy just behind me in school who ducked his obligation and fled to Canada. He still can't come home, Jimmy Carter pardon or not.

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10-15-2014, 02:37 AM	#6
MikeP User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: ILL Posts: 686 Thanks: 36 Thanked 452 Times in 198 Posts	There were POWs who did logging and other work in my home area. Mostly Afrika Korps who were happy to be here. There was controversy concerning some farm exemptions in those days. my father was at Bastogne with the 506th and the general thinking was that they might not survive. A wintery Saturday night in the middle of this a guy in a fur coat and new car stopped at the farmhouse and asked my grand dad for gas to get home. It was rationed at the time. It was the rich kid down the road riding a farm exemption. Gramps was a WW1 vet and apparently laid into the guy. Another time some of them painted a house front yellow for another they considered a shirker. we had a guy just behind me in school who ducked his obligation and fled to Canada. He still can't come home, Jimmy Carter pardon or not.