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CONTENTSEd & Ray Hersman in WWII4.7 Why We Fight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 544.7.1 The Silver Star for Gallantry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 554.8 Back into Combat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 554.8.1 A French Welcome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564.9 Luxembourg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 574.10 Herborn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 574.10.1 Digging In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 594.10.2 Plum Wine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604.10.3 Shelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604.10.4 ambushing an ambush . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 614.10.5 Fun With Germans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 614.10.6 The Moving hay stack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 624.10.7 Mines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 624.10.8 Trip Wires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 634.11 Siegfried Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 634.11.1 A Stealth O.P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 634.12 Battle of the Buldge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 664.12.1 Full Scale Bayonet Charge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 674.12.2 Killing Germans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 684.12.3 My Brother Ray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 694.12.4 Out of Gürzenich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 694.13 Christmas in Belgium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 704.14 Freezing in Langlir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714.14.1 Court Martial for Cowardice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 724.14.2 Pity for Germans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 734.14.3 Tank Fight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 734.14.4 Night Patrol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 744.14.5 Attack from Langlir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 754.14.6 German Weasel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 754.15 Düsseldorf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 764.15.1 Across the Rhine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773
CONTENTSEd & Ray Hersman in WWII4.15.2 Germans surrendering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 784.16 All Hell Breaks Loose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 794.17 Schieder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 794.18 Harz Mountains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 804.19 Brother Ray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 814.19.1 Like a King . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 814.19.2 Souvenirs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 824.19.3 Parting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 824.20 Barby on the Elbe River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 834.20.1 Shooting Down a Plane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 834.20.2 Attacked by Tanks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 844.21 The Truman Bridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 844.21.1 German Soldiers Surrender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 854.22 End of the European War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 854.22.1 Dachau concentration camp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 854.23 Going Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 865 After the War 885.1 Back to Cleveland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 895.2 West Virginia University . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 905.3 Getting Married . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 905.3.1 A Comedy of Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 905.3.2 Honeymoon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 915.4 Living in Cleveland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 926 Some Relevant Historical Notes 946.1 The 83rd Division . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 946.1.1 Chronology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 946.1.2 Combat Chronicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 966.1.3 Assignments in the ETO (European Theater of Operation) 986.1.4 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 994
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Page 7 and 8: Chapter 1PrefaceThis collection con
Page 9 and 10: Chapter 2Ed ’s Early Memoriesby E
Page 12 and 13: 2.4. RETURN TO WEST VIRGINIA Ed & R
Page 22 and 23: 3.1. EARLY JOBS Ed & Ray Hersman in
Page 24 and 25: 3.2. PEARL HARBOR Ed & Ray Hersman
Page 26 and 27: 3.4. ARMY TRAINING Ed & Ray Hersman
Page 34 and 35: 3.5. EUROPE Ed & Ray Hersman in WWI
Page 40 and 41: Chapter 4World War II: Combatby Edw
Page 42 and 43: 4.1. RELIEVING THE 101ST AIRBORNE D
Page 44 and 45: 4.2. RESOLVED NOT TO RUN Ed & Ray H
Page 46 and 47: 4.3. THE ATTACK ON SAINTENY Ed & Ra
Page 48 and 49: 4.4. HUNTING SNIPERS Ed & Ray Hersm
Page 50 and 51: 4.5. ALL QUIET ON THE FRONT Ed & Ra
Page 52 and 53: 4.6. ATTACKING THE GERMANS Ed & Ray
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4.6. ATTACKING THE GERMANS Ed & Ray
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4.8. BACK INTO COMBAT Ed & Ray Hers
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4.9. LUXEMBOURG Ed & Ray Hersman in
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4.10. HERBORN Ed & Ray Hersman in W
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4.10. HERBORN Ed & Ray Hersman in W
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4.11. SIEGFRIED LINE Ed & Ray Hersm
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4.11. SIEGFRIED LINE Ed & Ray Hersm
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4.12. BATTLE OF THE BULDGE Ed & Ray
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4.12. BATTLE OF THE BULDGE Ed & Ray
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4.14. FREEZING IN LANGLIR Ed & Ray
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4.15. DÜSSELDORF Ed & Ray Hersman
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4.16. ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE Ed & Ra
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4.19. BROTHER RAY Ed & Ray Hersman
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4.20. BARBY ON THE ELBE RIVER Ed &
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4.22. END OF THE EUROPEAN WAREd & R
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4.23. GOING HOME Ed & Ray Hersman i
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5.1. BACK TO CLEVELAND Ed & Ray Her
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5.3. GETTING MARRIED Ed & Ray Hersm
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5.4. LIVING IN CLEVELAND Ed & Ray H
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6.1. THE 83RD DIVISION Ed & Ray Her
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7.2. EARLY CHILDHOOD Ed & Ray Hersm
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7.4. JUNIOR IN THE WAR Ed & Ray Her
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8.2. CAPTURE Ed & Ray Hersman in WW
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8.4. COLD & CLOSE TO RUSSIA Ed & Ra
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8.5. LINES NOT TO CROSS Ed & Ray He
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8.7. FINAL THOUGHTS Ed & Ray Hersma
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9.2. CHRONOLOGY Ed & Ray Hersman in
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10.4. RAY’S CAPTURE Ed & Ray Hers
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