"Odd Jobs From the World War II Military " Topic

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"Click on the History Channel or open up a high school textbook, and you might end up concluding that World War II was exclusively won by troops and generals on the frontlines, and the wills and whims of national figureheads like Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin.

The reality is—of course—much more complex, with generalists and specialists engaging in important battles to win wars of information, communication, infrastructure, and technology. Sometimes this meant storming the beaches of Normandy, and sometimes this meant, say, drafting posters to school soldiers on the dangers of venereal disease. With that in mind, here are ten of the oddest, most interesting jobs American soldiers took on during World War II, lifted directly from the United States' 1944 Military Occupational Classification guide…"
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Undertaker….THAT's an Odd Job…

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One of the jobs, "Sound Recorder, Artillery" is noted as 'probably more important than you'd think'. Also more dangerous.

I had the privilege of attending a seminar where a number of WWII vets talked about their experiences. This ran from a destroyer crewman whose ship was hit by a Kamikaze (leaving him trapped under wreckage while he watched crewmates burn to death) to a man in a delousing unit. But then one gentleman got up and started taking about his job. He was in one of those 'Sound Recorder, Artillery' units and he described how they did their job. It was interesting but not terribly dramatic. Until suddenly, with no warning at all, he and his unit are caught by SS panzers near a little town in Belgium in December 1944. He was a Malmedy Massacre survivor! OMG! You could have heard a pin drop in the room.

Thanks!.

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