10/21/1944- Off on D. S. at about 0930 Troisveres Lux- Wiltz- Ettelbruck, Luxembourg,
Rodt/Syrgwecker and finally to Berboug----
We received a royal welcome to the tune of German 88's and 105's which killed two chiefs of section in a nearby gun Btry. and injured six---
They brought out the dead in a W. C. (weapons Carrier).
Billeted in two story home after being chased out of another (town empty of civilians)
P-47 dive bombed and strafed the Germans-
Came in from High Alt-Left vapor trails-
Shook pears out of trees.
Cliff Hope from his book: Our fun and games ended on the following Saturday when our survey party was ordered to the Mompach-Berbourg area of eastern Luxembourg, close to the front. A few minutes after we entered Berbourg, German shells landed a few hundred yards away. Shortly after, medics carried two bodies past us. We heard that six more soldiers were wounded. That night we billeted in a house left by Luxembourgers. There I found a number of Nazi postcards and German and Luxemboug geography books. There were virtually no civilians left in the town but it still had running water and electricity. I found myself wondering who was paying the utility bills.
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| Example of a weapons carrier |
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