thinking about how in March 1945, Patton launched a large scale attack on a German POW camp for the sole purpose of freeing his captured son in law
the task force was immediately detected by the Germans. it made it to the camp, however, where it accidentally killed a bunch of Serbian POWs because they wore grey uniforms. the German commandant called for a truce and sent the son in law, John K Waters, out to negotiate
he was then immediately shot in the ass by a German guard
the Americans liberated the camp and then realised they didn’t have enough transport, so only O-4s and above got to ride out and everyone else could try and run after them the 50 miles back to American lines. Waters was left behind, ass-shot
on the way back they were ambushed by German infantry, who destroyed the lead tank and then used its radio to call more in in English. the task force commander was then shot in the dick
eventually they surrendered and were just marched straight back to the camp they had left
both of them were then freed from the same hospital nine days later
Patton tried to give the commander who got shot in the dick the Medal of Honor but then realised someone would actually check what he got it for, so settled for personally awarding him the DSC
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