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Journal Entry-Jan 11-Refugees

Jan 11
Sun AZ at noon.

Poor refugees starving and freezing-gave part of my meals to little girl-some poor kids have frozen feet.

101st airborne still in front lines. Signal off & E.M.s downstairs. Put in power line to us. They take signal photos at front.

Lu, in Ray Hight's book: So many of my memories are of the civilians and what they went through. One bitter night in mid-January 1945, when the 16th was supporting the VIII Corps Artillery in pushing the Germans back out of the Bulge, our survey crew found shelter in a badly torn-up small village. We laid out our bed rolls in one room of a stone house that was still partially standing. A number of families were also using the house for shelter, and several small children were crying during the night. They were in much worse shape than we were, and I'll always remember the sadness of not being able to help them.

Cliff Hope: Party One (Lu's party?) had a refugee mother and six little kids at their house. The officer ordered them out of the house, but the GIs there made room for the kids in their beds.



This photo was taken in January 1945 of Belgian refugees displaced by the Battle of the Bulge



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