By the time the Battle of the Bulge wound down in late January 1945, fresh Allied replacements, the tenacious stand of the battered GIs, and clearing weather (which allowed Allied airborne operations) combined to halt the German advance. The charge of exaggerating one's military record is a very serious one (see Jeremy Michael Boorda), and needs to be backed up by evidence. But some of these same GIs later recalled that the story of the Malmedy Massacre so angered them that they decided they would now stand and fight with everything they had. #HATM. WebWho Survived the Malmedy Massacre? He went from job to job, from doorman to dishwasher to cabdriver. There are many secrets in us, in the depths of our souls, that we dont want anyone to know about, he told Parade. A news item involving Charles Durning was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the In the news section on 27 December 2012. 1 Everwood on the WB / medical problems? 9 Malmedy survivor? Every so often he landed a bit part in a play. Eleven Americans fled to the caf nearby, but the Germans set it on fire and then gunned down the men as they ran out. Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.18.160.21 (talk) 03:07, 7 July 2009 (UTC)Reply[reply], Every time I watch Star Wars episode IV (1977), I am certain I see Charles Durning as a foot soldier, Trying to defend the ship as Princess Leia records her message to Obi Wan in R2D2. were returned to those kinds of units, infantrymen were returned to infantry units. I do belive that the edit should stand, however. And on the morning of December 17, the second day of the German attack, he was a frustrated man. A good many of them had lost their parents, their sisters and brothers, during the [Allied] bombing [of German cities]. In 2002 he appeared with Mr. Pacino in an Off Broadway production of Bertolt Brechts Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui. At Lincoln Center in 2005 he was the senile father of a college professor (Dianne Wiest) in Wendy Wassersteins Third.. WRT the EIB/CIB, block 31 says "M1 Rifle Ex 165 5 Mar 45". (Perhaps eleven men of Battery B had been killed in the initial attack.) - After being wounded in Normandy, Mr. Durning was declared fit for duty on 6 Dec and transferred to the 10th Replacement Depot (in England) on 12 Dec 44. . He worked as a farmhand and did other menial jobs before moving to Buffalo, where again he took odd jobs. Battery B reached the Belgian town of Malmedy around noon. On D-Day, you took part in the invasion at Omaha Beach, landing early in the day with a battalion of Rangers, alongside the First Infantry Division. 03 Apr 2023 01:55:49 Peiper was the commander of Kampfgruppe Peiper, the leading battle formation of the First Panzer Divisionhe had been personally picked by Adolf Hitler to be the point person on the Sixth Panzer Armys drive to seize the bridges of the Meuse River and capture Antwerp. A few additional points.
--Lebob-BE (talk) 20:11, 25 February 2009 (UTC)Reply[reply],
Steve Karras - who wrote the web2carz article - joined the discussion and provided additional data from his research. Total mustering out pay was $300 $100 was paid at the time. The convoy consisted of about 130 men, thirty jeeps, weapons carriers, and trucks and was led by Captain Roger Mills, and Lieutenants Virgil Lary and Perry Reardon. He had probably ordered an attack by his unit, which caused the deaths of forty-three Italian civilians in the village of Boves, Italy, in 1943, and in numerous actions against partisans in Russia, his unit deliberately burned villages and killed Russian civilians. It does say that he was a survivor of the Malmedy Massacre. I was watching Everwood this evening, and I saw Mr. Durning on it. Colonel David Pergrin, in charge of a company of combat engineers who were all that were left to defend Malmedy. France honors Charles Durning PFC Durning was one of only a few soldiers to escape and survive the subsequent notorious Malmedy massacre. Amazingly enough, some sixty Americans were still alive in the field after the machine-gunning. During the Battle of the Bulge, Germans captured Durning. The problem here is that this regiment arrived in the ETO very late (mid-March 45), and was plugged into the then-reconstituting 106th Infantry Division to replace one of the two regiments destroyed during the Bulge. Not surprisingly, Mr. Durnings two Oscar nominations were for supporting roles, as a slippery governor in the Burt Reynolds-Dolly Parton musical The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982) and as a lustful Nazi colonel in the 1983 remake of To Be or Not to Be, starring Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft. He is not credited for being in Star Wars at IMDB. Finally, this story about Durning present at the crossroad is running on several websites since many years. Wedinm (talk) 21:22, 29 March 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply], Regarding the lengthy Malmedy survivor? I made the following changes: When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs. - After being wounded in Normandy, Mr. Durning was declared fit for duty on 6 Dec and transferred to the 10th Replacement Depot (in England) on 12 Dec 44. Lejoly, who was a German sympathizer, nevertheless could not believe his eyes as he watched one SS man allow a U.S. medic to bandage a wounded soldier, after which the German shot both men dead. The Germans killed everybody! they shouted at Pergrin. I'm beginning to wonder about the veracity of Mr Durning's World War II story. The next year Mr. Durning starred with Julie Harris in a Broadway revival of The Gin Game, D. L. Coburns Pulitzer-winning play about two nursing home residents whose game of cards becomes a clash of wills. The soldiers of SS-Panzerregiment 1 who did the shooting took great care to ensure no witnesses remained, but as at Wormhoudt (also LSSAH), Le Paradis (SS-Totenkopf-Division) & L'Abbe Ardenne (SS-Pz.Gren.Regt.-25) there were always some who lived to testify against the perpetrators. The Germans of Kampfgruppe Peiper, seventy of whom were convicted in a war crimes tribunal after the war, were surprisedexecuting prisoners was standard fare on the Eastern Front. JavaScript is disabled. On the other hand I am far from being convinced that the fact this would have been said by the French consul (if it was the case) make it the revealed truth. Of course all those who have writen on that massacre have emphasised one or other point of view according to their preference: som tried to whitewash the Germans others of course have pointed out how bestial they have been. 98.255.89.22 (talk) 09:00, 6 July 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply], Oldbubblehead. As you know, that is a critical difference. Shearonink (talk) 18:54, 10 June 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. The French document being discussed is not. He could play gruff and combative or gentle and funny. Again, am reluctant to cast aspersions, but not many men advertise their valor awards, but refuse to clearly state what units they served in. Then came World War II, and he enlisted in the Army. Then a German machine gun at the back of another halftrack opened up and U.S. prisoners fell screaming to the ground. WebTIL That the late character actor Charles Durning, who was a WWII veteran, was not only the sole survivor of a unit during the Normandy invasion but was one of only three men to escape the infamous Malmedy Massacre during the Battle of the Bulge. Bubblehead, do Mr. Durning's record throw any light on this point? He continued to act almost until his death. The fact is mentioned, but a reliable source (e.g. I'd also hope that other identified incorrect entries be removed from the article, such as earning 3 Puprple Hearts (he earned just one); serving with the 1st Division (he did not) and receiving campaign credit for the Battle of the Bulge (Ardennes Campaign - which, again, he did not); Oldbubblehead's research has proven those elements invalid. The inability of anyone, to include his family, to produce these General Orders, or even cite the GO#, must arouse curiosity, to put it mildly. The only real source are his Military records and the man himself. The book focuses (in training and in combat) on experiences, actions, emotions, and hardships of ordinary Gis. And there's the weakness in Wiki; the burden of proof should be on those making assertions of fact; instead, Wiki gives credence to unsubstantiated, possibly self-serving claims made by individuals, that are only bolstered by second and third hand retellings of that same man's stories. Cheers.InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 05:27, 5 September 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply], There's no reason to display the medals or decorations he is said to have received. Monkeyzpop (talk) 01:53, 16 October 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply], we all have watched the cuban crime rags to ritches film with al pacino , i am personnely convinced that charles durning done a voice over for an emigration officer at the early stages of the film watch the start and the questions about the tattoo ,,,,if this is not charles durning voice then im an aardvaark. Web#VeteranOfTheDay Army Veteran Charles Durning - VA News Todays #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Veteran Charles Durning, who served as an infantryman during World War II and At first, the Germans present merely stared at the officer, but then Pfc. The list of survivors of the Malmedy massacre is very well known and Durning's name does not appear in it. This does however not mean that he did not do his duty during WWII. -- Lebob ( talk) 12:13, 26 December 2012 (UTC) Please note, however, that the Malmedy Massacre was not the only massacre of prisoners to take place in World War II. So. WebSix survivors of the Malmedy atrocity return to the field where SS troops of the First SS Panzer Division shot and killed 86 unarmed American soldiers on December 17, 1944. Not only has no text been provided from this document, but it sounds like the entire thing was cribbed from this very article. According to testimony at the war crimes trial, Major Poetschke was heard by a U.S. soldier who understood German telling a Sergeant Beutner: You know what to do with the prisoners.. I must acknowledge that several websites clearly state that durning was at the Baugnez crossroad when the massacre occured. 
It contains a roster, list of decorations awarded, and some information on landing craft assignments. They clearly violated the Geneva Conventions and "were technically guilty of war crimes.". German infantrywearing winter camouflage clothing that most of the Americans did not possessattacked out of the ethereal mist, firing burp guns from the hip. 7. --rogerd (talk) 02:58, 15 March 2008 (UTC)Reply[reply], I had the priviledge and honor to meet Charles Durning some years ago, when I was on The Los Angeles St. Patrick's Day Committee, and we made him "Grand Marshall" for the parade in Hollywood. - On the other hand, if he were assigned to the 398th Inf Regt upon discharge from the hospital - as most accounts reflect - that raises even more serious questions. The Belgian farmer, whose name was Henri Lejoly, was surprised at the nonchalance of the U.S. troops. Sergeant Beutner then stopped a halftrack that held a 75-mm cannon and attempted to depress its barrel low enough to aim at the prisoners in the field. But then another German unit came by and those Americans who could speak German heard a lieutenant in this unit give the order: Machte alle Kaput! Kill the Americans. Captured during the Battle of the Bulge, Durning, was one of the few survivors of the Malmedy massacre when German troops opened fire on dozens of American prisoners. Their hatred of the enemy was such, I swear, I could not always keep it under control.. His combat experiences were harrowing. One one side they are based on the testimonies made by the American survivors, which must been seen as relations made by guys who had escaped to an almost promissed death, who were under shock, often wounded and who had some difficulties to make a coherent relation of the facts. As Kampfgruppe Peiper passed by these Americans, an SS soldier suddenly stood up in the back of his halftrack, aimed his pistol, and fired it twice into a group of U.S. prisoners. It was the start of a long association with Papp, who cast him, often as a clown, in 35 plays, many by Shakespeare. This record will need to be linked on this talk page so that other editors can verify this before we can allow this kind of character assassination. There was a caf there, as well as three small farms. Following your training period in 1943, you were sent to England in February of the following year. Forty-three of them, including Peiper, were sentenced to die by hanging, twenty-two to life imprisonment, and the rest to ten- to twenty-year sentences. For his injuries, Durning received his 2nd Purple Heart. Also, the alleged false statement was the Durning was the 2nd most decorated soldier of WWII, which Monkeyzpop disputes. Mr. Durning played the prosecutor, a character based on William Jennings Bryan, and Scott, in his last Broadway role, was the defense attorney, modeled on Clarence Darrow. As the GIs lay moaning on the ground, SS men walked among them, kicking men in the testicles or in the head. In fact, the Battle of the Bulge, as it would become known for the deep indentation the attacking German forces pushed into the U.S. lines, quickly became a series of confused small actions, with isolated units engaging each other in fierce battles. Sternebeck moved out, followed closely by Peiper, and the long line of Kampfgruffe Peiper began to pass the Americans standing in the field, some of whom had begun to relax, put their hands down, and light cigarettes. But then again, Reynolds is hardly an authority on military history, so what he says about Charles Durning's war record is very trivial, even if the editor could find a reference. Frankly speaking I have doubts about this. But while I don't know Durning and have only met him once, he is close with several close friends of mine, and I asked them to ask him about the Malmedy thing. In the Parade interview, he recalled the hand-to-hand combat. Aedwardmoch (talk) 05:35, 8 November 2008 (UTC)AedwardmochAedwardmoch (talk) 05:35, 8 November 2008 (UTC)Reply[reply], There are different ways to calculate "most decorated" and it's exacerbated by the fact that some awards are delayed by decades. However, immediately after the massacre occurred and well before the bodies were recovered, the news quickly spread through the GIs fighting for their lives in the Ardennes. His father, James, an Irish immigrant, had been sickened by mustard gas and lost a leg in World War I and died when Charles was 16. And they did. It would be fascinating to find someone who had been at two iconic incidents. There were other instances of SS men under his control killing GI prisoners during his dash through Belgium, and Peiper did nothing to stop these. He did testify that after the battle of Normandy, my unit was composed of mainly young, fanatical soldiers. I have just modified one external link on Charles Durning. Wikipedia says no primary sources and the military record is a primary source. After passing through the town, the convoy was stopped on its eastern edge by Lt. I didnt see a soldier. I am proposing the following as a new section on the Charles Durning page: "Controversy Surrounding Military Service - Autopsies conducted on the frozen corpses showed that forty-one men had been shot in the head at close range and another ten had had their heads bashed in with rifle butts. However, early that evening, three escapees did encounter a patrol led by Colonel Pergrin, who had heard the shooting and was coming to investigate. Given the manual, handwritten nature of documentation at the time, and the huge growth of forces, it's not at all surprising to me that administrative paperwork was less than accurate. The area was so thinly held by GIs billeted (if they were lucky) in Belgian inns and private homes that it was called the Ghost Front. The GIs knew that their German enemies were out there in the snow and fog, but believed that they would never attempt a serious attack in such conditions. As the SS massacred the survivors, they realized they had no choice to but to try to escape, and they rose and ran as fast as they could to the back of the field, heading for a nearby woods. Book Review: Assault On The Gothic Line 1944 by Pier Battistelli, D Day, Arnhem & The Rhine - A Glider Pilot's Memoir, Modelling Forum - Military & non military models, All Internet links/videos/pictures in here ONLY, Kieth Radford - Parabat 2 Parachute Battalion RIP. Is Archaeology Due for a Sexual Revolution? 398th Infantry Regiment; part of the 100th Infantry Division, 3. Rlevse Talk 03:28, 9 November 2009 (UTC)Reply[reply], i'm confused because it seems that three purple hearts are claimed, but only two instances of being wounded are cited. And the Rangers were not a dumping ground for disciplinary problems. Rangers in World War II by Robert W. Black contains a complete roster of all Rangers who served during World War II. I hope to get some kind of interview with him that can be published in order to cite these things, but with his current condition, I'm not sure it can be accomplished. WebWhen beloved actor Charles Durning died on Christmas Eve, journalists unanimously praised the actor's storied war record. Robert E. 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Charles Durning may not have been a household name, but with his pugnacious features and imposing bulk he was a familiar presence in American movies, television and theater, even if often overshadowed by the headliners. They had seen for themselves thousands of mangled corpsesafter a terror raid had passed. He was one of the military masterminds of The Invasion of Normandy that also landed at Omaha Beach. discussion above, today's AP story on Mr. Durning's death says he was "captured in the Battle of the Bulge and survived a massacre of prisoners." Charles Durning (AP)Charles Durning, a World War II hero who became the king of the character actors, died Monday at his Manhattan home. The delay upset Peiper. By the time the war ended, the U.S. public knew all about the Malmedy massacre and clamored for revenge. He does not appear in the list of survivors who were brought back to the massacre site. All of the death sentences were commuted to imprisonment and, in 1956, Jochen Peiper became the last member of the group to walk out of jail. Charles Durning, who died on Dec. 24 at age 89 in New York City, played a whole lot of roles in his half-century-long career - all told, 207 of them, according the While Oldbubblehead's research apparently verifies the Silver Star, the issue will not be put to bed until the GO (with its citation extract) can be located. Michael Dorosh 14:48, 21 August 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply], An editor made this edit that accuses Durning of exaggerating his military record. Charles was the ninth of 10 children, and five of his sisters died of smallpox or scarlet fever in childhood, three of them within two weeks.
Charles Edward Durning (February 28, 1923 December 24, 2012) was an American actor who appeared in over 200 movies, television shows and plays. Seeing Americans fleeing, a machine gun on the back of a halftrack opened up, cutting down those who stood in the field and those trying to escape. I repeat one last time, if you "know" - as you insist you do - why don't you contact the French Embassy and get them to retract the statement? Of all the thousands of units in the ETO? David T Tokyo (talk) 16:30, 26 February 2009 (UTC)Reply[reply], 12th Repl. Stetsonharry (talk) 20:53, 5 February 2009 (UTC)Reply[reply], If there's no objection, I suggest inserting a reference to him as a Malmedy survivor based on bhcnp.org. In 1996 he fought a courtroom duel with George C. Scott in the Broadway revival of Inherit the Wind, the drama by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee based on the Scopes monkey trial of 1925. Can someone decode this? Brands on Ben Barnes's "Revelation" about the Iran Hostage Crisis, The "Madman Theory" Was Quintessential Nixon. Durning does not appear in either the muster reports or morning reports of any of the units involved. In a sense, the Allied war against the Germans since the D-Day landings of June 6, 1944, had gone almost too well. [Ref: http://www.web2carz.com/people/who-you-know/2097/charles-durnings-war-heroism-exaggeration-fabrication]. http://news.yahoo.com/durning-king-character-actors-dies-nyc-075353360.html, Sca (talk) 14:53, 25 December 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply], While the article notes there appears to be some confusion at Durning's war record (which unit he was with at any particular moment etc), I think the Third Army [art needs to be clarified. WebMy uncle wrote a book, Captor Captive, that included the Nazis convicted of the Malmedy Massacre and imprisoned at Landsberg.. Standing in the barren field outside of the town of Malmedy on that cold early afternoon in the winter of 1944, they smoked and joked with each other. He was in the first wave of troops to land on Omaha Beach on D-Day and his units lone survivor of a machine-gun ambush. I tend to agree with David T Tokyo, but I'd feel better if the declaration appeared in a better source than the one we have, preferably an official one. The farmer, Henri Lejoly, watched in horror as the Americans screamed and cowered as the machine gun bullets tore them apart. Some of them had placed their hands on their helmets in a casual token of surrender to the Waffen-SS troops of Kampfgruppe Peiperthe mechanized task force commanded by the brilliant young German Colonel Jochen Peiperas it passed by, but beyond that they seemed remarkably unconcerned. Again, Durning is not listed. Two million men fought for three months in Normandy in 1944. Worse, the 398th's own regimental history of its participation in WWII has a list of all its medal awardees; Mr. Durning is not listed as earning any medal of any kind with that unit. To this day it is uncertain if the Germans would have shot the Americans had they not tried to runmany German soldiers present later claimed they were merely killing escaping prisoners. Born: 28-Feb-1923 Birthplace: Highland Falls, NY Died: 24-Dec-2012 Location of death: New York City Cause of death: unspecified. After a fierce fight in Normandy, the Americans and British had broken out of their beachheads at the end of July and sent the Wehrmacht reeling backwards, ceding vast areas of France and Belgium to the U.S. armored divisions of the First and Third Armies and the British Twenty-fifth Army Group. I thought the guys shot at the crossroads were all from one unit, a field artillery observation battalion. Most of the SS troops, including Jochen Peiper, had seen extensive duty in the grim killing fields of the Eastern Front. The ceremony took place in Los Angeles and the presenter was Philippe Larrieu, Consul General of France. WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Jan. 17, 2013) -- Triple Purple Heart holder, Silver Star recipient and award-winning character actor Charles Durning, who died at 89 Never has Mr. Durning's name been quoted in any single book I have read. The Germans swept them with rifle and machine gun fire, but made little attempt to chase after them. A lot of that is released through acting., Charles Durning, Prolific Character Actor, Dies at 89, https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/26/movies/charles-durning-prolific-character-actor-dies-at-89.html. Well I should maybe have taken part earlier to this discussion. But he definitely does not claim to be a Malmedy survivor. 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