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That's One Short Round! An Exceptionally Short Captain WWII.


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Came across this photo of an Awards Formation in Thionville in Eastern France November 1944 with the 1139th Engineer Combat Group, check out the Captain there, did a double take at first, I'm seeing a White Armband, on him so maybe he's a Doctor in one of the units of the Group, or the Group itself. No names are given unfortunately.

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The soldier all the way to the right in the same line looks to be about the same size. As someone who is 5'4" 130 lbs. and wears a 6.5 men's shoe size I totally empathize with him, I  had a heck of a time getting a pair of BoonDockers that fit in boot camp.

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I'll add this too, I had a good friend who was short, I called him little Eddie. But one thing for sure he was a good friend and many times in my corner. Eddie could take on the biggest and he was one scrappy guy. I guess he had too fight a lot as he was small and usually they get picked on. I said he was like a Tasmanian Devil  going around in a fight. He was tough. 

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