My great uncle John McGovern was part of the 42nd Infantry/Rainbow division in WW2, they landed by amphibious craft in Marseilles, France. He was in the Battle of the Bulge, his unit saw heavy action but was surrounded eventually in Sessenheim, on the border of France, and were captured.

His account was one of those featured in the book Hold At All Cost, which is a collection of personal accounts of soldiers from 42nd Rainbow who were taken prisoner, most of which occurred during the Battle of the Bulge.

The excerpt with his account is pretty amazing, they were holed up with a heavy machine gun in a small house on one side of the village they occupied on the French side of the border very near Stuttgart. Their comms were dead/cut off from the rest of their unit as they were being captured. They were attacked on two sides of the house by columns of tanks and by that point had nothing that could penetrate tank armor, and the Germans were trying to get in, grenades-first. He had no idea why the...

Been sitting on these way too long, need to share before the next batch drops!

EDIT: 2nd one may need explanation. ICYMI black tiktok/X had a trend where they were cutting pineapples into vertical strips or cubes, rolling them in Kool-Aid powder, then putting them in a jar with more Kool-Aid and sugar, making super sweet treats in bright colors. It became all the rage, people selling them in the street as a quick way to make a buck.