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Date Posted: 17:10:43 03/14/04 Sun
Author: Edward L. Souder, Pfc
Subject: ETO - 1942 through 1945 - Co. F., 405th Regiment, 102th Division (2nd Battalion)

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Belgium Nov 1944

That night the British put on the artificial moonlight, searchlight battalions, tanks moved up - troops came forward and huddled in the field near us. At 0500 the artillery opened up. At 0600 the men moved out. They didn't know what was going on. So by noon many were dead in front of us. Tanks knocked out and burning and so - Hairless and I went forward in a convoy of Jeeps - "just to get close to the action". Our route lay north toward Geilenkerchen. As we moved up we entered a ravine and the town lay ahead of us - all was still so we turned right and up another hill was a felled tree and a pile of branches near by. Just then a Jerry opened fire on us so we jumped for cover and returned the fire. This went on for a few minutes so Weigand said "let's go thru" and he and the first 3 Jeeps got thru the hole but the last Jeep thru dragged a big branch into the hole so I had the drivers turn around and got out of town the way we came in.

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