Dec 19 Ate breakfast & dinner on side rd.-
Convoyed to Champlon- Stopped in at a nice French/Belgian home for the night (t.g.) cooked some soup on Queer looking stove and talked with family while toasting shins-
2100 grabbed all amo & Bazooka & headed for side Rd. to put in road block to hold tanks in the valley from breaking through-Was Bazooka man with Anfuso helping.
Lt Wilson & Thompson and and Muller in charge- Cold, damp, foggy, on post 2 hours on & 2 off. Too cold and clammy to sleep-
Kept bazooka ready in case the tanks & half tracks we could hear below in the valley tried to break through-
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Kahner was in 102nd field Hosp. in Ettelbruk when Germans attacked-. He went A.W.O.L. with a mail clerk & 2 M. Gunners in W. C. (Weapons Carrier) and though all main roads were cut got to Bastogne and the 8th Corps H.Q. then went to Beho & Major Cameron picked him up-
Several A Btry O.P.s (Observation Posts) area unheard from-may be with the 106th boys trapped in forest NE of St. Vith or captured or dead. (Malmedy Massacre?) Danny Goldberg, Leny Drosin, Buchanan and Van-Houghton among missing.
Michals & Gordon W. Priebe killed in command car accident while on 'secret' mission.
"B" btry (strafed?????) on way because they went through Houfalaize-
A Lt. & 3 enlisted men from 285th F.O>B. are with us. Their outfit is missing.
Interactive map for 12/19/44
Captain Carter's orientation Dec 22nd
Situation of A & B batteries explained. Overrun in matter of hours by Jerry tanks. From then on we jumped from spearhead to spearhead helping to slow the German attack. -Some Bull!
Our movements all ordered by 8th Corps general. The Germans started drive with 14 divisions, 5 armored & 9 infantry, to our 106th infantry division, 28th infantry, 9th & 7th armored.
Our flanks at St. Vith and Arlon holding strong but 3/4 Luxembourg overrun and 35 miles of Belgium. The dumps at Govey destroyed. Several big gas dumps destroyed.
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