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Bob Dietsch was a Army Combat Engineer in Italy with the 19th Combat team. As a combat engineer he built bridges day or night while under artillery and mortar fire. He planted American mines, took up German mines as well as booby traps including the dreaded Bouncing Betty that was set to bounce about waist high before detonating. A infantryman that I knew for 10 yrs. who fought in France almost stepped on a Bouncing Betty, it scarred him so bad he just sat down shaking for several minutes. Bob brought home and will have at the program several weapons, German booby traps including the Bouncing Betty, the wooden shoe bomb, German helmets, some propaganda as well as much more memoribilia. Come early to the Dexter Library on the 17th of May to view all of Larry Martin’s WW II memorbilia. BOB DIETSCH WILL BE AT THE PROGRAM TO DO A Q & A WITH THE AUDIENCE.