Counterattack at Moircy

By nightfall we were coming into the Belgian village of Freux Menil. It was there that we got the message that the First Battalion up ahead of us had encountered fierce enemy resistance at Moircy. Soon it became clear that the Germans were counterattacking and trying...

The Saar

I reported to Capt. Howard J. Wall of L Company, Third Battalion, 345th Infantry Regiment. At first there was not a great deal going on in the way of combat action, but on the morning of 16 December 1944, we jumped off with a fresh, full-strength company in an attack...

James R. McGhee

James R McGhee was a junior 2nd Lieutenant when he joined the 334th FA at Camp McCain, Mississippi, not long out of OCS. He served in various capacities in Service and C Batteries before winding up with A Battery at Fort Jackson, SC. He joined them as a Forward...

First Combat

Colonel Cubbison was the BN 334 CO and I became his voice radio operator once overseas – in his command car. We arrived as a green division in the Saar Basin. The first night a couple of GIs walked into our farmyard – I think from the 26th division, the...