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October 15th, Sunday -Good Food-Lots of Sickness


10/15/44 Check survey turning blades angles over on RR track-
Hike back-after wool knit cap
Chicken dinner courtesy Okie & Farshee-French Fries & corn to boot
Wine bottles of all shapes and flavors too, but I don't drink.

Oh, Kahner reminded me of his famous cigar box maneuver while passing through Mayon-
Lots of boys sick even Shelton & Gindel.
Bliesmer & Shelton tried to puke in same can at same time-

Cliff Hope: It seemed to be official policy for our convoy ... to speed up through all the towns of any size. As we were swishing through Noyon, Ed Kahner, suffering from an acute case of the GIs, had an urgent need to relieve himself. There was no stopping the BMC truck. Some of those whith him in th erear of thtruck located an empty cigar box. Using it with admirable accuracy, he did what had to be done.

Cliff Hope from his book:
Although we talked of living in a New York tenement the schoolhouse was considerable warmer and drier than the Gotterdammerung. Okie and others built bunk beds for all of us. Often we fixed our own supper rather than make the trip to the official battery mess facilities in the neighboring village of Maldigen. The school provided a good place for nightly bull sessions. To celebrate "come in out of the cold," Bruno and I went to Mass at the village church on Sunday, 15 October. Then a group of us took showers in the shower tent operated by an engineer battalion at Gouvy. While there, we bought schnapps and wine and returned to our schoolhouse for a dinner of fried chicken, frech fries, and creamed corn, prepared by Tommy Fourshee, Emery Bliesmer and Okie. It was some party. We had bottles of all shapes, sizes and contents and every one of us, man and boy, got drunk. (Marilu:Not EVERY man and boy...)

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