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tinguish friend from enemy. Colonel Chappuis told him to hold
steady.
As Chappuis and Cassidy estimated the situation at 502d
Headquarters, Company B was already backing up Company A
and would still he effective if Champs were lost, whereas it might
lose its reserve value if it pushed on into the village and the Germans
came around it. IS So they waited. They knew that somewhere
a real blow was coming but they could not figure where. u
So far the German pressure had jarred them only at the right and
center of the S02d and was coming at them from the north. They
looked anxiously to the westward where their sector joined that
of the 327th Glider Infantry. Their command post was under
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