On the June 6, 1944, D-Day invasion, Combs parachuted into combat and counted himself among the lucky ones. As he exited the airplane, wind tore away the machine gun from a container sewn onto his jump harness, and his parachute eventually got caught in a tree. When he jumped down, he landed in water up to his neck.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf I\u2019d have had that machine gun and hadn\u2019t landed in a tree, I\u2019d have probably drowned,\u201d he told The Advocate in 2013. \u201cThe Good Lord had reasons to keep me upright, didn\u2019t he?\u201d<\/p>\n
Combs fought for 18 days before being wounded severely enough that he could have been sent home. He declined the opportunity and joined in the invasion of Holland on Sept. 17. When Germany launched the Battle of the Bulge offensive on Dec. 16, the 101st hustled in to hold on to Bastogne, Belgium, before it was surrounded.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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