Journal Entry February 10 and Cliff Hope

From Cliff Hope's book, 'Growing Up in the Wartime Army'

Feb 10 moved to Bleialf Germany Germany. Surveyed in Siegfried line to Brandscheid past pill boxes & mined fields. Saw HW 14 Jeep-Just a mass of tin.

Cliff Hope: We moved to Bleialf, Germany, at the foot of the Schnee Eifel, on 10 February, and for the first time were living inside Germany at the base of the Siegfried Line. We stayed for three weeks. It was good to leave the large, cavernous barn with its memories of death.

Our party had fairly good quarters in a house in Bleialf--four rooms with a stove in each and plenty of hay from a nearby barn for mattresses. For the first week in Bleialf, my diary reported observation along the Siegfried Line and such matters as washing clothes and taking my first shower in two months.

While surveying from the road junction, Grosslangenfeld, to Habscheid, I took pictures of dragon's teeth (concrete barriers) and pillboxes on the side of a hill and two of a Siegfried Line roadblock.

Lu, in Ray Hight's book:We were now heading toward the siegfried Line. With the immediate objective of the Schnee Eifel Ridge.