WW-II IN MINNESOTA

In 1942, Nazi’s invaded Canada and were rapidly advancing westward with the Pantzer Divisions overwhelming all resistance.  They finally had advanced to latitude 44 degrees and 56 sec. of Minnesota and began a push southward.  They quickly took Duluth.  Shortly thereafter they got to the outskirts of St. Paul, where I lived, and a group of us boys armed ourselves with bread knives and would quickly attack  small groups of Germans, killing them with our bread knives.  One time the force of Nazi’s included tanks and was too much for us so we beat a hasty retreat around the front of my house.  When we got to the other side, the Germans had set up a machine gun on the space on side of the house - rat-a-tat-tat, on and on.  It was an awful  slaughter.  I woke up with a start, trembling, to hear a woodpecker pecking on our metal rain gutter.  Scariest dream I ever had.