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72 BASTOGNE Mter being Bushed by the fire the two companies had headed west and then south. Most of the trucks got through to the Corps rear and on the next day Captain John L. Patterson of one of the units, the 80lst Ordnance Maintenance Company, taking a different route, got into Bastogne with two trucks bringing 500 gallons of gasoline. He then turned south again to bring the rest of the convoy forward. But by that time the Germans had already closed the road.82 Such was the shortage of gasoline in Bastogne through most of the siege that vehicles were fueled only just before they went out on a run so that there would be no loss of gasoline if any standing vehicle was hit. 88
I T CHAPTER 10 THE REPULSE WAS A NIGHT FOR DRIFTERS, the night of December 19-20. As the darkness grew, more men from the elements which had been shattered to the east of Bastogne came moving back through the regimental lines of the lOlst. Few of them stayed. Colonel Ewell and his officers talked to these men. They could tell very little of what had happened to them. Many of them were inarticulate. Infantrymen from units of the 28th Division still trickled into the area in groups of three or four. They made no attempt to organize themselves and they did not for the most part wish to be organized by anyone else. Some of these straggling infantrymen would ask Ewell's men, 'What are you doing?" Upon being told, 'We are fighting Germans," they would look at the paratroopers as if they were stark mad. But not all were like that. Some who seemed utterly wretched and spent when they came to within the lines, upon being handed a K ration, would eat it and look around and ask where they could get a rifle. They were ready to fight again. But to others food and companionship made no difference. They had been shocked so badly that they wanted only to keep on drifting. They were allowed to do so. This disorder had no ill effect on the combat force. The demoralization did not seem to bother the nerves of the men who were still fighting and they accepted it as the natural product of battle it often is. 1 A battalion of Field Artillery, the lO9th of the 28th Division, came through as a unit and attached itself to the 907th Glider Field Artillery Battalion. Those groups from the 9th Armored Division which had been compelled to withdraw from the advanced ground along the Longvilly road were in good order and high spirits when they reached the lines around Bastogne. One platoon of armored infantry attached itself to Major Homan's battalion (2d Battalion, 50lst Parachute Infantry) and helped them carry the fight during the next several days.2 Seven tanks arrived from the 9th Armored Division and constituted them- [73 ]
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ASTOGNE THEFIRST EIGHTDAYS S. L. A.
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RUNNING BA'ITLE FmsT ACTION AT MARV
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UNITS, COMMANDERS, STAFF MEMBERS, A
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2D BA'ITALION (Companies D, E, F an
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THE SITUATION 5 penetrated the posi
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132 BASTOGNE Higgins reasoned that
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CHAPTER 17 SUPPLIES ARRIVE 1 FROM D
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144 BASTOGNE was always Team O'Hara
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CHAPTER 19 WEST OF BASTOGNE FOR SIX
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WEST OF BASTOGNE 149 they guessed t
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152 BASTOGNE tered a small detachme
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154 BASTOGNB left Bank of the high
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CHRISTMAS. EVE 157 usual pressure f
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162 BASTOGNE pinned them down with
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164 BASTOGNE north and northwest. U
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BATTLE A1 CHAMPS ZS DECEMBER I PHAS
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CHRISTMAS EVE 169 of Champs, but by
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172 BASTOGNE tanks moved in among t
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THE ENEMY STORY 177 The onfall of X
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THE. ENEMY STORY 179 terence produc
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THE ENEMY STORY 183 he was constrai
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186 BASTOGNE at Neffe was something
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THE ENEMY STORY 191 concluded that
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198 BASTOGNE grenadier Division got
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KEY TO NOTES 201 M45A-Narrative Sum
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210 BASTOGNE 22 Kinnard and Danahy
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214 BASTOGNE and 84 enlisted men wo
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2. Colonel (now Brigadier Generall
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4. Brigadier General (now Major Gen
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6. Lieutenant Colonel Paul A. Danah
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8. Lieutenant Colonel (now Colon el
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J 3 and J 4. Bomb damage in Bastogn
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16. Vehicle in Bastogne camouflaged
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2 J. Neffe, scene of heavy flghting
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23 (top'. Wounded in the hospitals
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29. Command Post of Company F, 327t
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32 (top). Members of the 101 st Air
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37. Pine plantation near Bastogne,
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40. Men on guard in a pine plantati
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42. Colonel Danahy, General McAulif
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