I’m reading the excellent book With The Old Breed, by Eugene Sledge – on which the mini-series The Pacific is partly based. In it, he tells how the Japanese would deliberately use snipers, machine guns, mortars, etc to target the U.S. Marines’ stretcher bearers as they tried to bring in the wounded. This, possibly more than anything else in that bitter campaign, totally infuriated him. Could any of the vets on the forum say if there was a similar situation in the war with the Germans? Did they also fire on stretcher crews, or did they allow them to tend the wounded and take them off the battlefield?
I think it probably depended on what unit.. some SS units would have fired at everyone without fear or favour. It also I think depended on who they were ie I bet the Russians got a lot less chances than British or Americans. What you said tmac is very interesting..
I can't remember where I read but Medic's and Litter bearers were sometimes shot at by snipers. I know a WW2 Medic that I go to church with , I will ask him about this. I do know the Jap's would single them out with sniper's
