I have a friend whose father in law celebrated his 17th birthday by jumping out of an airplane over Normandy with the 82nd.

He tells of some "German" conscripts attempting to surrender to him that morning. He says that he was so scared and lonely, that he shrugged his shoulders, tossed a grenade toward them, and they ran one way and he the other.

There were terrible acts committed by all sides in that war.

Some still bothered my uncle, a Methodist Minister who carried a BAR throughout the retaking of the Philippines, while he was on his deathbed in the 1994.

I had another neighbor who owed his life to a German soldier who released the POWs in the barracks he was guarding into the night because he told his prisoners the SS was coming in the morning to kill the POWs. He always wondered if that guard survived.

That being said, The Allies were much better disicplined and on the whole conducted themselves better than most warring parties do.