My old greek boss was one of those guys, strafed with a machine gun,shot five times, pretended to be dead in a ditch, then literally crawled miles back to his guys. Thats how he lost most of his toes to frostbite. Those were real men. Hard to imagine the horror and pain he endured. I would have followed that man into battle, great respect...If you like the history, look up the photos of the fields of dead guys , stacked 3 deep in front of our machine guns... Our guys rifles froze up and wouldn't work, and they actually pee'd in them to thaw them out.