r/interestingasfuck • u/waffen123 • 15h ago

Easy Company paratrooper Forrest Guth at the Marmion Farm in Normandy in June 1944. 65 years later, Guth posed again with his captured German helmet as he did in 1944.

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u/Sweet_Bypass69 14h ago

Easy Company? F-ing legend!

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u/Resident_Stable_2112 14h ago

Badass Mother Fucker. At least he stopped smoking. LOL.

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u/Spartan2470 VIP Philanthropist 15h ago edited 14h ago

Here is his "A Band of Brothers" page.

Sergeant, one of the 140 original members of the Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment in the 101st Airborne Division, liberator of my hometown Eindhoven. Band of Brothers.

https://ww2gravestone.com/people/guth-forrest-leroy-goody/

Here is a higher-quality and less-cropped version of the first image. Here is the source.

Jacques Wood

I photographed this picture from my copy of Forrest Guth's book "The Way We Were" and I am only using it for the purpose of a Then and Now comparison.

This is the famous photograph of Forrest Guth at the Marmion France in Normandy. Guth was mis-dropped near Ravenoville along with his buddies from 3rd platoon. They linked up and made their way to the Marmion Farm before the could find their way to their Company. Gut took many photographs here from the camera that he, against orders, took into combat.

Take a look at the next picture of a modern day view of this picture.

Here is this location via Google Street View.

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u/Helpful-Resident1459 15h ago

His name is so close to Forest Gump he must have been the inspiration behind the name Forest Gump. Or it's a coincidence.

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u/-MrFozzy- 12h ago

not even a coincidence. Just a name

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u/RedaNassef 15h ago

65 years passed, the world changed around him, but the memories and the spirit remained untouched under the exact same helmet

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u/Individual-Iron-6370 7h ago

It's rumored he was also really good at ping pong.

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u/donofrioms 4h ago

And shrimp

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u/iain127 5h ago

recreating the exact pose from '44 is such a move. respect.

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u/Fish-Weekly 15h ago

Looks like there was a book written about his trip back:

In the Footsteps of the Band of Brothers - Larry Alexander

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u/Spartan0330 11h ago

“Were you a hero in the war?”

“No, but I served in company of hero’s”

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u/CapitalHopeful5680 10h ago

Heroes.

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u/Spartan0330 9h ago

Autocorrect 🤷‍♂️

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u/Salt-Operation 2h ago

It did that because you type like that regularly. Stop adding possessive “s” onto your plurals.

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u/Texastony2 4h ago

Not a single bone spur draft dodger among those men!

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u/ElegantEchoes 3h ago

Well yeah haha, that was actually a justified war.

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u/Salt-Wish5140 15h ago

I've been there

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u/dr_xenon 15h ago

It still fits him after all those years!

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u/BauMausNRW 8h ago

Hat jemand die Adresse. Muss ich auch noch hin.

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u/NarrowDevice9418 8h ago

So proud of your service