WWII Pic of my Dad

My Dad graduated high school in 1943, 3 days later he was in boot camp training in the Army.

He ended up in Europe, was a member of the 740th Railroad Operation Battalion, where, while off duty, he was sleeping in a railcar turned bunk when it was hit by a German Buzz Bomb. He remembers waking to someone pulling him out of the devastated, burning car to safety. he had a concussion, some broken bones, and some lost teeth, but survived. He was the ONLY survivor of those sleeping in the rail car.

He has a German Luger pistol that will be mine when he passes. It has always amazed me, the gun. But I cannot to this day get out of him the circumstances he came to possess that gun, although he has all the legal papers signed by his chain of command.

FF