S/Sgt. Cecil Stollings 423/ F

Carl, Thank you so much for your response. My grandfather didn't talk a lot about his time in the service but he did share a few things with me before he died. One story he told was about his unit transporting German POW's after a battle and they were waiting in a train yard, he said he/they found a train car that looked like a big wooden keg and he figured it had liquor In it but they couldn't get in it so he said " hell, I finally just shot a hole in it", and all the guys started filling up anything that would hold some, helmets, etc. So during their trip he said the Nazi that he was transporting wanted a drink and he said he let him drink but that after everybody got drunk they started getting mad at the Nazi, so he said, " I put his ass out on a flat car and made him ride out there", it was winter time. He also said "that darn Nazi pissed all over himself". He told me a couple of other stories I'll share if your interested. I remember asking him how many Germans he killed when I was little and he would just say "you don't ask about those things". I know the war must have stayed with him till he died because he never trusted anybody that was German, to him, they were "a darn Nazi". Anyway, I miss him as much or more today as I did when he died in 93. I will look for those photos today, I hope I can find them because they're about the only thing I have from his time in the service, at one time he had lots of things, uniform, etc. My mom said he had guns he brought home, (not sure how he did that)andthat mygrandmotherwas always finding them and throwing them in the canal, because unfortunatelyhe was a veryviolentalchoholic.