Survive as a World War II Soldier - Chapter 96



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#096

Late July 1939.

Mrs. Pinky fell down.

It wasn’t the first time.

Over the past few years, Mrs. Pinky has been hospitalized and discharged several times, spending increasing amounts of time in bed.

But this time the atmosphere was a little different.

“Should I contact your grandfather?”

“Yeah. I think that’s what it should be.”

I nodded to Anna’s question and went into the sickroom.

“Doug.”

“What are you looking at?”

“When you were young.”

“Where are you looking?”

The picture frame she was holding contained a picture of a little boy with a bowl cut.

“You look exactly like Arthur.”

I smiled and replied to Mrs. Pinky’s comment that my second child and I were very similar when we were young.

“Of course. He’s my son.”

“Yeah, I see.”

“Okay, now give me the photo and lie down.”

As I was arranging the pillows for Mrs. Pinky to lie down comfortably, she called me.

“Doug.”

“Yes. Are you uncomfortable?”

“I want to go home.”

I hesitated for a moment at Mrs. Pinky’s words, then nodded.

“Okay. I’ll look into the discharge procedures and come back.”

Fortunately, Mrs. Pinky, who had been discharged from the hospital, held on until her brother’s family arrived after receiving a call.

“mother.”

“Arthur. I have to go and see you become Chief of Naval Operations…”

“Huh? Haha. I’m more than happy with two stars. Doug was the Chief of Staff.”

“Is that so?”

“yes.”

“Doug.”

“Yes, Mother.”

“I need to see you rise higher···.”

“More here?”

She let out a small laugh at my questioning face, eyes wide open.

“By the way, son, your belly is coming out. You need to exercise more.”

“mother.”

“Arthur, wouldn’t you have to live at least 20 more years to see me get married?”

Your brother is all grown up now, but you are worried that it is too late, and I sighed and shook my head without realizing it as I kept nagging him.

“Honestly, seeing you nagging me, I think you’re the one who’s going to have no problems until Arthur gets married.”

I nodded vigorously at Arthur’s words, and only then did Mrs. Pinky turn her head, snickering.

She turned her head very slowly and slowly looked at the faces of those surrounding the bed. She spoke to each of them as she had to me.

“Mary, you are eight years old now···.”

“My baby. If your older sister tells you to do something dangerous, you go straight to mommy…”

“Anna, please take good care of Doug. I have no worries when you’re here.”

After saying her final goodbyes like that, Mrs. Pinky nodded and smiled brightly.

“Yeah, I guess I’m okay with that. I’ll have a lot to talk about when I see your father.”

“is it so?”

“Yeah. Malcolm came out to meet me.”

The last thing she said was that she saw her second older brother, who had died long ago at a young age.

So Mrs. Pinky closed her eyes with a happy face while her family watched.

Mrs. Pinky, who pushed me into the battlefield a long time ago due to a strange misunderstanding.

Mrs. Pinky, who always responded to my requests for help more than I expected.

Mrs. Pinky said that it was enough for her to return alive and call me, the changed and unfamiliar me, her son.

That embrace was so warm···.

Still, it wasn’t unbearable to see Mrs. Pinky with her eyes closed and her face brightly smiling.

Although it is not known exactly when and how she died in the original history, it seems certain that she lived a happier old age.

Since I had been sick for several years and had been bedridden many times, Nana and my family were able to prepare ourselves mentally.

“It might be a good thing that you can go without having any more difficulties.”

“Yeah, maybe so.

At my words, Arthur nodded and exhaled cigarette smoke.

And Mrs. Pinky’s funeral…

“There are so many customers.”

“Where are my guests? Your brother’s guests look impressive too.”

“Are you here to see me when my retirement is only a few months away?”

“Is that so?”

Arthur, whom I haven’t seen in almost a year…

“By the way, hyung, you’ve aged a lot.”

“Ha. You really. Don’t you think you’re not old?”

“Oh. When I go out, people still think I’m in my 40s.”

Even if it weren’t for Mrs. Pinky’s nagging, I’m trying really hard to take care of my health so that I can live a long and healthy life for Mary and Arthur.

But my brother’s reaction after hearing my health management secret was…

“That crazy guy.”

Well, I too turned a deaf ear to Arthur’s nonsense and focused on welcoming the guests.

Not only Patton and Chaffee, but many other soldiers came.

It was a natural thing.

Anyway, among the soldiers who came that way, the Army was my guest, and the seals were my brother’s guests.

Well, it’s not like there weren’t some king-like ones among the seals who would come looking for me, but that’s usually the case.

Anyway, the stories coming out of the mouths of those who gathered were similar.

“Jerry those guys···.”

“Those Tommy idiots···.”

The Army and the Seals were all too preoccupied with the impending war.

That’s understandable. The Spanish Civil War ended last month, but Europe was still in turmoil.

Late last year, in the midst of the Spanish Civil War, Hitler took on Czechoslovakia.

Czechoslovakia was a new nation that gained independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire as a result of the Treaty of Versailles following the end of the Great War.

As the name suggests, Czechoslovakia was a multi-ethnic state, formed by the union of the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Of course, there were Germanic peoples among them.

It was the Germanic people that Hitler stumbled upon.

“The Germanic people are being persecuted. We can never stand by and watch this happen.”

The Germanic people, who mainly lived in the Sudeland, were a minority in Czechoslovakia, and what they wanted was in fact autonomy.

But Hitler thought differently.

“We are ready to accept the Germanic people of the Sudeland as part of Germany.”

“Whether we, Germany and Austria, become one nation, all Germanic peoples aspire to become one great German nation. And this is a great goal that must be achieved.”

In his call for a Germanic nation-state, Hitler argued that the Sudeland should also become part of Germany.

“If there are those who stand in the way of the Germanic people, we will not let them.”

“We, Germans, are ready to fight anyone, at any time.”

Hitler’s statement that he would go to war if this was interfered with was nothing more than a lie, but the problem was that Britain and France were fooled.

Unlike Germany, which had begun mobilizing and raising its army immediately after the Treaty of Versailles was broken, Britain and France were still at peace.

No, I was extremely afraid of a war that might break out.

“What if those kids really want to start a war?”

“Shouldn’t war be the only thing that needs to be prevented?”

So when Britain and France were biting their nails, worrying about war, someone suddenly appeared like a savior.

“I will mediate. You must trust me completely.”

It was the Italian dictator Mussolini.

There was one reason he came forward: he wanted to check Germany.

“It’s a burden that the Germans are getting too big.”

Under his mediation, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain negotiated with Hitler several times.

As it turned out, the German military also strongly wanted a negotiated settlement rather than war.

“It is not yet time for war.”

“You can’t just issue a mobilization order and gather people and they become soldiers.”

“When I came to Spain, I saw that we were much less prepared than I thought.”

There were many times when we broke up, wondering if the conditions were right or not.

Chamberlain, who made concessions after concessions, finally obtained Hitler’s signature.

“People, here is peace for our time.”

Chamberlain, who got off the plane, held high the Munich Agreement and gave an interview in which he praised himself for having saved the peace.

And the British and French applauded Chamberlain’s cry without holding back.

“Wow!”

“There is no more war!”

Of course, not everyone was happy.

“Damn it. Britain and France have abandoned us.”

“This is a betrayal.”

Abandoned Czechoslovakia shed tears of blood, but no one cared.

But less than a year later, it became clear to the world that Chamberlain had been defrauded.

In March, Nazi Germany, which had claimed that it only needed the Sudeland, ended up swallowing up all of Czechoslovakia.

And Roosevelt, who was watching all this from across the ocean…

“Damn. Why do Tommy kids have these little bling bling hanging from their shoulders?”

I wondered whether the heads of the foolish Chamberlain and the British bastards who made such a writer Prime Minister were brains or decorations.

But the day when the chains that still held the American president would be released seemed distant.

Those who were concerned about the situation in Europe were at least thoughtful.

For the most part, the general public was not interested, and neither were the lawmakers who represented them.

Because the main symptom of the disease they were suffering from, isolationism, was becoming blind and deaf. The only place the isolationists were interested in was America.

The affairs of Europe are but a story of a distant land.

Meanwhile, the situation in Europe became increasingly serious.

“What? Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact?”

It was something no one had thought of.

In the Spanish Civil War that had been going on for some time, the Soviet Union and Germany had fought each other with crude accusations.

“Those communists are the evil of society who are plotting to overthrow the country.”

“There is nothing worthwhile in those Nazi bastards’ arguments.”

Anyone could see that the Nazis and the Communists were mortal enemies.

But those two,

“What? Non-aggression pact?”

“This isn’t a joke, this is real?”

It was only when the newspapers printed photographs of Hitler and Stalin smiling and shaking hands that Britain realized they had been stabbed in the back of the head.

The reason Britain threw Czechoslovakia away when signing the Munich Agreement was because it wanted the Soviet Union and Germany to fight closer to each other along their borders.

“It would be good if the two of them just fight back and forth.”

“Even if that’s not the case, we have to be mindful of each other···.”

It was an attempt to use the so-called Lee Jae-yong method, but it became meaningless when a non-aggression pact was signed between the two.

“If this is the case, then the Germans don’t have to worry about the East at all?”

“omg!”

Europe was literally on the brink of collapse.

And the situation in Asia was equally chaotic.

“The situation in the Sino-Japanese War is not simple.”

“I’m really worried that if things continue like this, the Japanese will show their evil side to us too…”

There were some who were worried,

“Shouldn’t we be thinking not about whether to reveal it, but when to reveal it?”

“yes?”

“Do you think those kids will stop after eating Chinese food and say they’re full?”

“But would you really extend your reach to the Philippines?”

“you’re right.”

Asia was just as much a mess as Europe.

The North China region, where the Sino-Japanese War first began, had long since fallen completely into Japanese hands.

The Nanjing massacre in 1937, early in the war, made the world aware of the brutality of the Japanese.

But that was it.

The situation in Europe, where they are, is a mess right now, so there aren’t many countries that have the capacity to pay attention to faraway Asia.

The reason China was able to hold out better than the Yuan Dynasty was thanks to the efforts of the Provisional Government of the Joseon Dynasty and the Philippines.

“I heard that Guangzhou hasn’t been taken yet.”

“But isn’t it just a matter of time?”

“Wouldn’t that put the Philippines in danger too?”

For that reason, the guests gathered at the funeral all mentioned the international situation and worried about war.

and,

“I guess they’re all talking about war, since they’re all soldiers.”

“Oh, Mr. Vice President.”

Willis clicked his tongue, not liking the atmosphere.

Well, that makes sense.

Everyone had dark, worried expressions on their faces, but when I stood a step back and watched, I could feel the strange heat radiating from the soldiers.

For one reason or another, war was a golden opportunity for soldiers.

A heaven-sent opportunity for advancement.

Moreover, among the soldiers gathered here, there was not a single private.

Thanks to this, while everyone was worried about war, they were emitting a strange fever that could not be put into words.

“But Nazi Germany’s actions were certainly problematic. The same goes for the Japanese Empire.”

But soon Willis put on a good-natured expression and blurted out that it was all Germany and Japan’s fault.

Certainly, this man was a politician.

“Are you going to South America again this time?”

“Ah. Yes. I think it is an area that needs management.”

Until the late 20th century, America’s image in Latin America was that of a gangster.

In 1898, the United States gave Cuba and Puerto Rico their rule, and in 1903, it granted independence to Panama, which had been a Colombian territory.

Relations with Mexico, which borders the country, were not good either.

By the way, Pancho Villa, whom MacArthur and Patton captured and executed, was a hero of the Mexican revolution.

In any case, Willis played a large role in the recent change in relations with Latin American countries, which had not been good for this reason, to a more amicable one.

Of course, the fact that we became good friends did not directly lead to the happiness of the people of that country.

For example, Nicaraguan dictator Somoza provided aid to the country because of his pro-American stance.

Considering the upcoming World War II and the Pacific War, stability in Latin America, the front yard, was necessary.

Anyway, Mrs. Pinky’s funeral made me realize that not only me, but many other people are worried and preparing for the coming war.

And the moment I realized that fact,

“Have you made up your mind now?”

Anna came over to me and asked, rubbing my shoulder.

“Yeah. Especially when times are difficult, you have to do what you’re good at and what you’re confident in.”

And then Germany moved as if it had been waiting for my decision.

September 1, 1939.

The curtain rose on World War II.

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