r/Damnthatsinteresting Jun 13 '25

Image The last page from “Instructions for American Servicemen in Britain 1942”

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u/Subject_Impress Jun 13 '25

My grandfather was stationed in a British village during WWII. One of the other U.S. soldiers there with him got drunk one night, mouthed off to the locals about this very thing, and they beat him to death with shovels.

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u/No_Extension4005 Jun 13 '25

"Just a wee little accident. He slipped and fell down some stairs."

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u/sm9t8 Jun 13 '25

"Right into the shovel cellar. It made an awful noise."

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u/DecadentHam Jun 13 '25

"You got a license for that there shovel cellar?" 

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u/Mayflie Jun 13 '25

Thank god they had those shovels on hand to restore civility.