The Last Battle: When U.S. And German Soldiers Joined Forces in the Waning Hours of World War II in Europe by Stephen Harding

Author:Stephen Harding [Harding, Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: 20th Century, Biography & Autobiography, Historical, Military, Nonfiction, Retail, World War II
ISBN: 9780306822094
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 2013-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 6

TANKERS ON THE MARCH

THAT JACK LEE WAS SMILING at the thought of roaring off behind German lines on what might well have been the last day of World War II in Europe gives a fair insight into the then twenty-seven-year-old tanker’s personality. The five-foot-ten, 190-pound former high school and college football star from New York was by all accounts a rough-talking, hard-drinking, and hard-charging bull of a man who’d found his niche in war. And, as with many men—in many wars—to whom that description has applied, Lee’s early life gave clear indications of the warrior he would eventually become.

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