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devastating, devastating injury to you. and i know while there is no humor behind that, i know you've told me a story in the past about about how the guys actually thought that day that you were killed. >> yeah. that's true. and i didn't find this out till a couple years after the war. floyd talbert was there when i was hit. and i was very severely wounded and the top of my head was about half off, i guess. but i spent a year at army hospitals. and i guess it looked worse than it would. i put my hand over the top of my helmet, it was knocked over. my head felt like a watermelon and m...

during the series say hey, you know what? throw a hand grenade or reload your m-1 or -- you know, they would give you a direction that if you didn't have training you would have to brinsomebo in to do. it was just smart. they never cut in for anybody elsereloading. it was all us. >> i'll give you a quick example of us, and i'm sure you want to get these guys. later on on the episode u showed up on set and i remember one of the directors coming up to me. like i said, she all were fantastic. they said percante. i said yes. they go that's your squad? i said yeah, that's my squad...

>> yeah, that's true. i didn't find this out until a couple years after the war. floyd talbert was there when i was hit, and i was very, very severely wounded. at the top of my head, it was about half off, i guess. i spent a year at army hospitals. i guess it looked worse than it was. i put my hand up, my whole head felt like a watermelon and mushy and soft. i can understand talbert looked at this and thought he saw me killed. he just turned away. back when i was in the states six or eight months later, i went to visit talbert's parents because i was in a hospital in indianapolis, an...

his mother wrote him, ed tipper came to visit from the hospital. and he wrote back immediately, that guy that claims to be tipper is an imposter. call the mps and get him put in jail where he belongs because i saw ed tipper killed. of course, we got all that straightened out a couple years later. >> babe, when you came in as a replacement before operation market garden, what was your concept of war in terms of what it would be like and how was it different than what it was actually when you got into holland and started fighting? >> well, i remember -- can i stand? >> you can do anyth...