The enemy advance was being contained along the entire front. The Americans recaptured Echternach and surrounded a Nazi Panzer column near Calles. The Germans were seriously hampered by a lack of gasoline. Our survey parties went out in the morning to continue work in the general direction of Bastogne, but we came in before long because of the dense fog. B Battery managed to survey in four microphones on their new sound base.
Our survey group moved into a house in which Bruno and I shared a beautiful bed in a very cold room. Reading the most current copies of Stars and Stripes, I learned that all the places to which we had retreated up to Matton in France were now in German hands. I ended the day by writing to my parents and Irene. There wasn't a lot I could write about, but I let them know "my hatred toward the Germans increases hourly." I had trouble writing as my ink was half-frozen. "Those Kiplinger predictions on the end of the war certainly were wacky; I hope all his dope isn't as inaccurate although I realize he's only reporting opinion."
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