Paratrooper humor.

>They ran into Bill Randleman, who had a dead German at his feet. Randleman related that the moment he had gotten free of his chute he had fixed his bayonet. Suddenly a German came charging, his bayonet fixed. Randleman knocked the weapon aside, then impaled the German on his bayonet. >”That Kraut picked the wrong guy to play bayonets with,” Christenson remarked. _______________________________ **Source:** Ambrose, Stephen Edward. “Follow Me.” *Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest*. New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2004. 72. Print. ______________________________ **Further Reading:** [Technical Sergeant Burton Paul Christenson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burton_Christenson)