Patton at the Battle of the Bulge by Leo Barron

Author:Leo Barron
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Group, USA
Published: 2014-10-12T16:00:00+00:00

These comments [McMahon’s and Abrams’s] motivated me so the barn was set afire with a grenade to chase the enemy away so we could move forward without being under fire by Panzerfaust shells. During the above time frame a sniper was firing at me as I stood in the turret. His shells were flaking paint from the turret in my eyes as I peered out of the open hatch. I was saving tank ammunition and tried to silence the sniper with machine gun fire with my sub machine gun and as I raised my hand out of the hatch area he wounded me in the right hand. This wound was to be my third wound of four that I received during WW II. After being hit in the hand we laid the tank gun on the sniper area position and with a round of 75 MM HE cleared the street and proceeded through the village.

Whitehill’s tactics started to work, and the infantry began to gain some ground within the town. At 1025 hours, McMahon radioed him again for a status update. “How are you coming now?” he asked.

This time the lucky lieutenant had good news. “We are moving behind the buildings. I finally got the infantry to move.”9Midmorning, Sunday, December 24 Bigonville, Luxembourg

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