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Post by avordvet on Feb 4, 2016 15:42:48 GMT -5
I caught a show on the history channel about the Waffen SS, and was LMAO about this guy... Talk about some balls! Found this narration of the action: (Narrator) T. Moffatt Burriss 24 year old captain with the 82nd airborne div in April 1945 as the allies near victory in Berlin (Narrator) Moffatt was given orders to stay put. But the young captain decided to jump in a jeep with 2 other men to see just what lay ahead of his division unfortunately he stumbled into the German army. Moffatt: We drove about 40 miles about half way to Berlin and ran head to head into a German armored corp. Just hundreds of tanks half tracks and trucks and probably 15,000 or so troops (Narrator) Moffatt needed an plan and quick.. Moffatt: I got out and went to the lead vehicle which had a German captain in it, he spoke English and I said I'm here to accept your surrender, He looks back and says are you crazy? Three men and a jeep? I said I have a whole army of paratroopers and tanks right behind me and the Russians right behind you. Do you want to surrender to us or to them. He said wait a minute. He called a conference of about 3 or 4 other German officers he came back and walked up to me and pulled his pistol out and I thought OH NO, not here in the last few days of the war. Then he turned it around and handed it to me. (Narrator) Moffatt and his two man army had somehow managed to secure the surrender of an entire German Panzer corps and he would be taking home a fine war souvenir
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