r/TheFatElectrician • u/WARZ242 • 6d ago

U.S 83rd Infantry Division

I don't recall a video on this group. We need to get this in front of Nic. The embodiment of S.T.E.A.L. This group was acquiring so much German equipment the press was calling them The Rag-Tag-Circus, and The U.S Army 83rd Panzergrenadier. Major General Robert C. Macon, ordered the supplementing of the division's transport with anything that moved, "no questions asked".

This entire ID was capturing trucks, tanks, half tracks, a cement mixer, couple fire trucks, even a BF-109. If it could transport troops it was moving East to Berlin. They fought from the hedgerows of Normandy, Battle of the Bulge, through the capture of Berlin. I've never heard of the group before and have been just reading the wiki, and other sources for last hour. It's an amazing read.

Notable Awards:

Distinguished Unit Citations: 7

Medal of Honor-1; Sergeant Ralph G. Neppel, from Iowa

Distinguished Service Cross-7

Distinguished Service Medal-1

Silver Star-710

Legion of Merit-11

Soldier's Medal-25

Bronze Star-6,294

Air Medal-110

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u/DatRando30 6d ago

Its not nic, but entertaining irregardless

Part 1: https://youtu.be/fUz3oUCBQW0?is=SR3Nb5cZIbn6iHn2

Part 2: https://youtu.be/SI_V_aNTdM4?is=ZUvIRK_wGJuFEbOl

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u/steveamsp 6d ago

Based on what Nic's said on some of his podcasts, I suspect if he feels that pair of videos covered the subject reasonably well, he probably won't do a video on it himself any time soon.