“IF YOU SEE YOU ABOUT TO FALL…”

A tribute to WWII Veterans.

https://youtu.be/Rp_oGyeXEMk

“If you see you about to fall… take somebody with you!”

Features: Henry Robinson Jr., a “Front Lines Rifleman” during WWII.

Henry Robinson Jr. was a “Front Lines Rifleman” with “I” Company of the 366th Infantry”. A copy of his discharge papers (attached here) detail everything he did, what he used, and the campaigns he was in during his stent with the 366th during WWII. I do hear-by state that the information in this documentary is all TRUE and accurate, much of which I remember being told to me by him through his own accounts… THIS is my father (above is his battle cry)… he captured 3 or 4 Germans single handedly. Funny how the Army didn’t give black soldiers medals for most of the accomplishments they made and the risk that they took in that war. My father never really talked much about the things he did in WWII, he would always just say to me “you wouldn’t understand.” Most things I found out through close relatives.

A “quote” from my father when I asked him how he survived when all those men where being killed all around him. He was quiet for a second, while holding his head down… then he looked up and said: “You wouldn’t understand.” Then he said… “If you see you about to FALL… take somebody with you!”

“If you see you about to fall… take somebody with you!”

More words from my father about the conflict that his Company and Battalion was that; “They demanded that they be allowed to fight”… and that “Eisenhower” allowed them to have that opportunity… my father then said: “They tried to exterminate us.” They sent us into a zone where they knew we were heavily out-numbered… we lost 1,500 (fifteen hundred) men in the first 5 hours of fighting.

There’s one more thing I need to mention here… it’s the part about the 1,500 men being killed all around him… the way they found themselves in that situation is… the ARMY sent down orders that the RHINE RIVER had to be crossed… and the “white soldiers refused to go“… that task then fell to the 366th… and they battled to cross that river… loosing 1,500 men in the process.