Talk:Raymond J. Bowman/Archive 1

Article creation story
I started the article inspired by this comment thread on reddit, started by a post about the image from which Bowman gains his fame. As mentioned on the page, there is still more in the German article, and this article has yet to include information from this interview. Help with these things would be very welcome! - Paul2520 (talk) 20:48, 23 April 2016 (UTC)

Surprised
I'm surprised that the German article contains much more information about Bowman than the English article. I am much more surprised that neither the English or German article contain important information. The story of Bowman is much more interesting than the firt view promises. It is very sad, that this man had to die under such circumstances; he felt to be US-american and German and was not an enemy of the Germans. He was full of German Heritage and friend of the US-Americans as well as the Germans, an enemy of the Nazis. He used to differenciate this very much. It was reported that his German was fluent and absolutely accentfree. Also reported was, that he always was very polite and gave shelter to the local children and protected them not to be at any shootline, made sure that they are safe in the basement. As well it is reported how carefull he was in the appartment not to damage anything, for example by using a blancket when using a machine gun on the table of that appartment. He was well educated and a very peacefull person. Definantly this guy is a hero. I do live close to the Capahouse and i can tell by the picture that not the balkony which is written about is the balkony Bowman died but the balkony towards the bridge what makes more sense in order to secure the bridge. For the sightseeing doubledecker busses it seems to make more sense to tell about the balkony which is to be seen easier whithout taking a turn of 500m and continue the tour economicly. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.212.77.173 (talk) 10:33, 11 April 2021 (UTC)