Media:Are these Robberies Linked?
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| # | 1261 | Byline/Reporter: | AP | IC Date: | 05/07/2059 | Prev | Second War Museum Incident Reported | Next | Heroes Trounce Triad Troublemakers |
... copied from the Dallas Tribune (AP)
The region's oldest inhabitant laughed off any suggestion of distress after an unusual robbery incident yesterday. Hiram P Bullworthy, aged 136 and the last surviving Texas participant in the European Second World War, was resting at his ranch house when two female thieves broke into the house. Hiram described the thieves as young and pretty.
While one of the thieves tore up the floor of Hiram B Bullworthy's souvenir Panzerkampfwagen IV and removed something that had been hidden in a compartment beneath it, the other thief cleaned his house, tidied up the yard, and went to the Mall to do his weekly shopping for him.
"I've had old Betsy standing out back of the house for over a century and I never knew there was anything hidden in her," said Hiram at a press conference at his ranch house, "We were in the Black Forest in '45 near the end of the war. Ran into a SS armored convoy. We discovered later it was part of the 73rd Panzer Division. We were heading south and they were heading north. Turned a corner of the road and there they were, right in front of us.
Hank Peters, he was my gunner, died back in '97, fired first and took out the King Tiger Mk IVb with a lucky shot. Heck, a Sherman gun couldn't touch a King Tiger normally but the driver had his hatch open and dang me to heck if Hank's shot didn't bulls-eye it. It got right loud for a while back there. Hack's second shot hit the command vehicle and brewed it up, that's old Betsy out back of the house. We lost Billy and Chuck, Mancani and Freddy, almost half our squad. Only one German made it out of the Panzers. He jumped out of old Betsy burning all over his body. That was the last time I saw action and when I came home I brought the command vehicle with me as a souvenir. Wanted the King Tiger but seems that was some special model and it went to the War Museum over in the UK."
