Robert Dornan: “I walked the battlefields of Crete with my oldest son, Bob Junior, on the 40th anniversary, 15 years ago, or that…”

“I walked the battlefields of Crete with my oldest son, Bob Junior, on the 40th anniversary, 15 years ago, or that anniversary week, and I had not realized that at two of the major air fields that German airborne were totally repulsed and at the third field, which we visited, it was what the Iron Duke of Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, said after the battle of Waterloo: It was a close-run thing. The New Zealand troops, with great loss of lives and wounded men, almost shut down the third major area of German paratroopers, and that is the area that the prize fighter, Max Schmeling, went into as a sergeant and a leader. Platoon sergeant. Of course, he had lucked out and beaten Joe Louis in their first encounter, and Louis, the Brown Bomber, kept his prediction that he would take him in one round. He did it in seconds of one round. Maximum Schmeling was a good man, as I understand, not a Nazi. He did not understand Hitler's evil in the beginning and went down there, and then never again was part of any major German movement.”