December 23rd 1944 Saturday-Battalion History and Cliff Hope

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Battalion History:
"The unit again was committed to combat."
That entry was made on the 23rd, and everyone who has read it wonders what in Hell we were doing from the 16th on, if it wasn't combat!

Five survey parties carried corps artillery control in the Nagem, Luxembourg, area during the day, and the battalion moved, in the late afternoon, to Oberpallen, Luxembourg.

The battalion stayed at Oberpallen on Christmas Eve. Able also was in Oberpallen, and Baker was in Ouirsch, Belgium, where they took over an immense chateau. St Vith Fell (to the enemy).

On a cheerless Christmas day, A Battery moved to Hostert-les-Folschette Luxembourg, and B Battery moved to Rambrouche, Belgium. Battalion moved to Rodanges Attert.

Cliff Hope from his book:

Rehabilitated, the battalion was once again committed to combat. Five battalion survey parties, two from Headquarters, two from B and one from A, went out to survey, working in the Nagem, Luxembourg, area to carry forward corps artillery survey control. We went through Arlon and within one block of Cafe Boulder on our way to the Redange headquarters of the 26th Division. Less than a month before, I had spent a large part of a two-day pass at Cafe Boulder. We surveyed a loop from Redange toward Hostert through Aspern and back to Redange. Shortly after noon the battalion closed installations at Selange and moved northward to Oberpallen, Luxembourg. After installations were set up, Bruno and I went to a house to wash and then, after standing guard with Winsor and Bruno, I made my way to a barn to sleep

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