September 25th Journal Entry

Sept-25- USO Show seen in Landerneau before

Chow till 21:00 People along roads still very Friendly.

Marilu: I take this to mean that Lu saw a USO show in Landerneau that lasted until 9 PM after which they had their supper, which was actually cooked food instead of the dreaded 'K's and C's'.  The French are still appreciating the liberating soldiers.

Battalion History: On 26th September we took off from the Lesneven area and made the run across France with the Ninth Army, a movement so effectively masked that when the Ninth arrived on the line in Belgium and Luxembourg the Germans referred to it as the "ghost army".

The route carried the battalion through or near Sens, Mayenne, Aleneon, Digny, Paris, St. Quentin and on the evening of the 29th the battalion bivouacked in a forest outside Heffe, near Bastogne, Belgium.

(Of the stop near Digny, the official record says: Battalion bivouacked near Digny at a chateau owned by a retired French array colonel. Officers were invited to have drinks at the chateau and also bivouackd in the chateau for the night, as did some of the enlisted men, which was very encouraging for the morale of the battalion".  As we remember there was, that night, the greatest epidemic of F. A. to date!)