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Joe Galloway and Lieutenant
General Hal Moore wrote the book We Were Soldiers
Once…and Young published in 1992. It was made into
a feature film in 2002.
It was a great movie but if Joe
Galloway can't get the basic facts right about
Command Sergeant Major Plumley how can the rest of
the story be verified?
To
this day Joe Galloway claims that CSM Plumley jumped
4 times in WWII. Even with the documentation he
denies the truth. The book and movie We Were
Soldiers Once can only be a fictional account.
Galloway like Hanks rides on the coattails of WWII
Veterans. It is a disservice to the men in that
book but Galloway only cares about his version of
the book, not the reality.
Here is the link to the documentation showing that
Corporal Plumley was in the 320th Gli FA
Bn not the 505th Prcht Inf during
WWII.
I spoke with CSM Plumley on
7/20/2011 for 7:00 minutes. CSM Plumley spoke of
his time in the 320th Gli FA Bn Btry B. When asked
about his wound he stated "I was wounded on Sept 18,
1944 right after getting out of the glider". When
asked about his 761 MOS he said he was a Scout. He
said that a Scout would search out locations to
place the Gun emplacements. I mentioned about
Morning Reports and he was interested in those as
well.
Now in 2015 I have the
documentation showing that Plumley never jumped out
of an airplane in WWII in combat. That backs up CSM Plumley’s
own claim. The only person who doesn't believe it
is Joe Galloway it seems. That means that Galloway
book is Fiction. Maybe Galloway doesn’t realize
what he has done due to his advanced age. Even then
that doesn’t excuse his mistakes. He has claimed
the 4 Jumps in WWII from the start when the book was
published in 1992 and the 2002 movie.
Brian N. Siddall
April 30, 2015
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