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Originally Posted by Missileer My family has a very hard to miss German Surname and more than once told some people that we were Dutch. |
My family did the same for the same reason, Missileer. Even when WWII came around and my father was the first of our family to volunteer for service as America entered the war, he was not allowed to serve in the European Theatre and so joined the Marines and went to the Pacific. Later, as war needs became more urgent, his brother was allowed to join the 101st Airborne where his fluency in German came in quite handy at the Battle of The Bulge.
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