Ever meet a real hero?

True respect to the brave men who did not choose to be captive but to honor the great country of the United States

Chris shranko

My English wife's grandfather, Edward "Ted" Norris was the last man off of the beach at Dunkirk. They were a Bren gun unit and were providing covering fire. At the last moment they evacuated towards the ships. He turned around to encourage his loader to keep up and noticed his loader was gone. He had his gun held above his head and was pulled up by sailors on the ship. His unit was chopped up so badly they weren't a coherent force anymore so they were all sent to other units. After a few month's rest, and following guard duty during the Battle of Britain, he was put on a ship and sent to the desert where he would eventually join the 8th Army and take part in El Alamein.

He would end up at Normandy and his unit would get chewed up in the hedgegrow battles. Sent back to England to recover, his unit was again sent off piecemeal to reinforce other units. He was lucky enough to get sent to Burma to be with Field Marshall Slim's 14th Army and he took part in the last British offensive of WW2, the liberation of Rangoon.