They refused to bathe. They refused to salute. They poached deer from an English lord's estate and used their washing water ration to cook it.
The night before D-Day they shaved mohawks and painted their faces like warriors.
Then they jumped into Normandy on one of the deadliest missions of the invasion.
This is the story of the Filthy Thirteen..🧵1/7
Memorial Day is a sad, somber day of remembrance for those who died, most of them very young, while serving in the U.S. Armed Forces. And for the parents, siblings, spouses, daughters & sons, that feel an irreplaceable and irredeemable emotional loneliness that we can not fathom