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Journal Entry February 7 and Cliff Hope -Bayonet etc.





Feb 7 Too foggy to work picked up bayonet, canteen, etc. on hill back of barn.

Two dead Germans, one torn up badly, two Americans also. M2's & equipment strewn everywhere.

Tomy fixing up trailer Articles of War at 8:00 PM.

Cliff Hope: Waking again to dreary rain, we returned to the benchmark near Bleialf but soon came back in because of fog. After lunch I went to church over at the command post for the first time in five weeks. Thompson was mad because nearly everyone had taken off. Some in the group, I wrote, "were trying to get somewhere with two babes here." I didn't join in that competition as I was still brooding over Christine.

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