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...)

Comments

November 4th 1945 Embarkation! Headed Home on the USS Westerly Victory ship

Watch for Lu's binoculars in many of his photos. They might be his best used acquisition from the war. This mimeographed newsletter is an interesting view into the voyage home.

July 20 1945 Letter to Mom

Bensheim Germany July 20th 1945 Dearest Mom, I started to get a letter off to you last night about midnight. I was corporal of the guard on duty in the orderly room. But an electrical storm was commencing and I no sooner got paper and pen out than a crash of lightning hit the power relay station nearby and all the lights went out. That storm was a beaut. Great jagged forks of lightning playing everywhere and the thunder sounded like all the artillery in the E.T.O. (European theater of operations) was sounding off in unison. In between flashes it was pitch black but most of the time (for about a half hour) you could read street signs a block away it was so bright. One triple forked bolt lit up the castle up on the hill and really made an eerie scene. You (You) know this is the first place I've seen actual balls of lightning. They looked like balls of fire. Mail came in at last yesterday. A big batch of it and it was really swell to hear what's going on at hom...

August 29th Journal Entry-Hedgerow Fighting, Plougastel taken

29th SAME- Still eating K's & C's Germans blow 1 span of bridge-Plau. taken Lu from his memoirs: The infantry fighting, as the circle around Brest was tightened, was brutal. This was "hedgerow" country, which provided great defensive cover and a huge obstacle to attack forces. The countryside was covered with a patchwork of small fields, each surrounded by "hedgerows". Over centuries of cultivation dirt collected in the hedges that surrounded each field. The hedges gradually became raised on high walls of soil, some of them eight to ten feet thick. The brush and small trees that formed the hedges were cut, dried and used for fuel to heat and cook with. Since the stumps and roots were not disturbed, they grew back rapidly, and were an excellent source of energy. There was an entry way to each field, and cart roads back to the farm buildings but it was extremely dangerous for American Infantry to try to attack along these roads and through ...

Winsor War Notes-Luther Snow Winsor's WW II experiences

Search This Blog