Talk:Robert G. Cole

Job - under Notes
Why does the link take one to a current accountant firm page, with a Robert Col shown as an employee? Something is very wrong !

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I was amazed this MOH recipent has no Wikipage. I heard about him from BiA and felt he needed one. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Leavebeaver2me (talk • contribs) 01:51, April 22, 2005 UTC

This is so NOT written factualy "Dropped" "Shot up" "cold steel" this is written as if it were from a comic book.

^^^Well dude, I got that info from "Citizen Soldiers", one of the most acclaimed WWII history books, so there. Siegfried Waldgrave 16:44, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

In all fairness, no matter what source you take this from, this does not read like an encyclopedia article. Sounds like a dramatic essay to me. "Cole stood there, shaking, exhausted, elated." or even worse: "...plunged into the dugouts and trenches, thrusting with their bayonets, drawing blood and screams, causing death.". Bockbockchicken 05:22, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

I edited it. I know it's not very good, but at least it reads like an encyclopedia article. Macaroni0811 22:57, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

It's much better. Good job! I'll do some research and add some references myself. Bockbockchicken 19:12, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

"Criticism" deletion
There was so much wrong with this I didn't know where to start to fix it, so I deleted it whole. The charge was not over "swampy" ground but along a dirt road leading from the highway to the farm house. There was no way to "outflank" the hedgerow--it ran from the farmhouse to the riverbank. The causeway was the only way into Carentan because the railroad embankment the Germans had used had been blown up west of town. The troopers were under constant mortar fire throughout June 10 and June 11. Both air and artillery support fires were used by the 101st in Normandy from D-Day on--a battalion of SP 105mm and a battalion of parachute 75mm howitzers supported Cole. The Germans jammed his radio frequencies until late in the battle. Throughout Normandy the Germans had to be rooted out of the hedgerows by infantry--supporting fires did not cut it.--Buckboard 09:37, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

birth date
The article mentions two birth dates: March 19, 1915 and April 17, 1915. Which one is correct? Wammes Waggel (talk) 18:31, 16 September 2009 (UTC)