Mac and the General

St. Vith was leveled to the ground. What was left of Company M was crammed into a dingy. damp cellar. The combined odors of dried meat, soggy potatoes, dirty bodies, gun oil and improvised oil lamps created a depressing, nauseating effect.

OK, Move Out!

I joined the outfit before St. Vith. Leaving St. Vith, came the first taste of long hand-carrying jaunts over the steep and snowy trails. This was my first taste of the woods and it was far from the last. As we made the long marches, loaded down with heavy machine-gun...

Advancing Across Germany

It was more towns, more tiresome hand-carrying, more mud, and more of holding the high ground. It was a relief to see those days behind us as when we finally made the Kyll River. One day a bunch of us looked down from the hills around Glaadkyll. Every road and...