by George Phillips | 09 Nov 2001 | Personal Accounts
It’s Pironpre that sticks in my memory, because it was there that I came closest to becoming a KIA and there that the Third Platoon lost one of its most popular members, Sgt. Norman “Pop” Schultz. Pironpre, G Company’s first objective in the...
by Bill Statt | 09 Nov 2001 | Personal Accounts, The Fallen
On December 24, 1944, the 87th was pulled out of action in the Saar and moved some 300 miles to the north to enter into battle 12 miles west of Bastogne. The men of the 87th had deep snow, zero temperatures and open fields to cross south of the Ourthe River. Forget...
by Dan Rossiter | 09 Nov 2001 | Personal Accounts
My short extraordinary friendship with Malvin Vigneault began over half a century ago when some obscure clerk cut orders for two basic training graduates from Ft. Benning to satisfy a manpower need in I Company. Friendship is, in the end, inexplicable. It starts...
by Paul Nessman | 09 Nov 2001 | Personal Accounts
“Everytime it rains, it rains pennies from heaven” was sung or whistled several times most days by William Schmidt. He was always cheerful and smiling. Nothing ever got him down. The more that others were upset by weather, food, or common adversity, the...