“All these guys crying for help and dying up there in Aachen and these guys stop and make tea. That didn’t go over too well with our boys.” (Video Interview, 58:14)

Thomas Blakey

Thomas Blakey, 2003 War: World War II, 1939-1946 Branch: Army Unit: 505th Regimental Combat Team (RCT), 82nd Airborne Division Service Location: European Theater Rank: Staff Sergeant Place of Birth: Nacogdoches, TX

Thomas Blakey was a paratrooper with the 505th Regimental Combat Team. He saw action at Normandy, jumping out of a plane on the morning of June 6, and at the Battle of the Bulge, but it was his experiences as part of Operation Market Garden that colored his opinion of our British allies and those in command.