January 17, Cliff Hope

While surveying in the morning and early afternoon from Foy to Noville and off on a side road to Vaux, we saw some disturbing sights. There were numerous deserted Tiger Mark IIIs and IVs and Sherman tanks. Noville, for all practical purposes, was destroyed. Hitler Jugend (youth) signs were in evidence everywhere. Giulio and I saw what appeared to be a trash rubble pit near a shell hole at the side of the main road. In it was a battered arm, all that remained of what was once a man. On the way to Vaux, we came upon many dead Germans. Private Blank, the GI I had guarded two months before, acted like a mad man as he tore around looting the bodies. "That guy!" Giulio commented wryly, " I expect to see him howling at the moon some night."

My hands and feet felt frozen as I went back toward Wideumont in the late afternoon with Shelton, Bruno, and Elting. Supposedly we were to pick up a tire and get things out of our duffel bags. The real purpose was to see Christine. On the way we met battery vehicles moving up, and about 100 yards from Christine's house we encountered a motors truck with the tire we needed. Seeing all the movement of vehicles, we thought we would be moving too, so we returned to Sibret at once only to learn that survey wasn't moving.

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August 28th 1944 Journal Entry-Rain and Rations

Aug 28th RAIN RAIN and mud Lu from his memoirs: We settled into a routine of extending and improving our control surveys and existing on "K" and "C" rations and sleeping in soggy pup tents. There was lots of rain and mud and finding ways to improve living conditions was a constant challenge. As Cliff pointed out in his book, we had some talented buddies with inventive minds. Tom Fourshes, of Cadiz, Kentucky built a compact, wood fired cooking stove on which we could heat our rations, spread hot cheese on crackers, and boil eggs obtained from farmers. We found straw and dry grass to put under our bed rolls, but we never found a way to keep the water our of our fox holes. We didn't have too much incoming artillery, but I noted on August 26 'Priebe hits fox hole as I leave it going for mine as shells land in river' We also began a close relationship with our Field Artillery gun battalions. The 561st next to us were equipped with "155 Long T

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January 12th Battalion History

Battalion History: We'll remember of the overall picture, the general German withdrawal toward Houffalize to escape an allied trap, the enemy counterattack which regained Noville and Foy, the American attack which retook Noville, the original objective of the corps in this area. Houffalize was taken by First Army troops and Corps' new objective became Limerle. The Germans began to withdraw toward the Siegried Line. Limerle and Echo were taken. The First Army retook St. Vith. VIII Corps troops pushed on through Trois Vierges, Luxembourg, went on to take Burg Rowland, and reached the Our River on a braod front. Bridgeheads over the Our were established and enlarged. Winterscheid and Sehonberg fell to corps troops. Poor weather made sound and flash ranging results almost negligible. And the buck privates who didn't want to go to war in the first place wondered if spring would ever come. The folks back home complained about meat shortages and said, "They say all the m

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