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4.14. FREEZING IN LANGLIR Ed & Ray Hersman in WWIIas they could load the gun. The Tiger could have easily knocked out theT.D. but he chose to run instead. He roared out of the house courtyard anddown the hill. Our T.D. reached the edge of the woods, ran over a mine andblew a track off. None of the tank crew were hurt.4.14.2 Pity for GermansWe moved right up to the edge of the woods and started shooting at thehouse. The Germans panicked and tried to run through the foot-deep snowdown the hill. Our men shot a few of them, then everyone stopped shooting.I guess our men felt sorry for the Germans since they so obviously didn’thave a chance. We let the Germans for the greater part get away.We moved into the farmhouse. It was so big with its attached stable andsheds that three companies could squeeze in. Anything to get out of thecold. The German Tiger tank moved into Langlir. From the farmhouse wecould see several of our tanks coming over a bald hill on the other side of thevalley. The tanks were in line, a skirmish formation. The Tiger opened upon our tanks and knocked five of them out, he wasn’t even touched.4.14.3 Tank FightThe Tiger was setting beside a house in Langlir and a couple of our men tooa bazooka and went down to try and knock him out. Ordinarily a bazookacouldn’t hurt this type of tank but the men did damage a track so he couldn’tmove. One of our tanks went down from the farmhouse to Langlir to get ashot at the Tiger. It roared around the house and jammed the front endof the German tank. Our Sherman tank has a little short 75mm cannonwhile the Tiger had an extremely long .88. The Tiger turned his gun toblast the Sherman but all they could do was bang the gun’s side against theSherman’s turret. The Sherman fired several rounds at the German’s turretand knocked the tank out.73
4.14. FREEZING IN LANGLIR Ed & Ray Hersman in WWII4.14.4 Night PatrolThat night we were to go on patrol.The patrol was to be a combined combat reconnaissance patrol consistingof about ten men commanded by a lieutenant. I was to be point man sinceI was most experienced. The lieutenant had never been on a patrol beforeand was all gung ho.We left the farmhouse after dark, went down the hill, waded a partiallyfrozen stream and climbed a long steep hill to the road which was abouthalfway up the hill, and which was our destination. I led, the lieutenantfollowed me and the rest of the men were behind him.I whispered to the officer that we should not walk on the road but shouldwalk in the woods beside the road even if the going was rougher. He said no,that we should walk in the road.We walked about a quarter of a mile down the road when suddenly myinstinct told me to hit the ground, which I did instantly. The men behind mealso hit the ground, that is everyone but the lieutenant. A German tank firedon us almost point blank. At night a white tank, in white snow is almostimpossible to see and since the Germans didn’t make any noise, we didn’tlocate it soon enough.I rolled into the woods and looked around just in time to see the menrunning up the road after the lieutenant. The tank did not fire again. Icaught those men only once going back to the C.P. That was at the foot ofthe hill, since we scooted down it on our tails I out-scooted them. They ranup the other hill to the C.P. I walked.The lieutenant was barely scratched, but when he ran the other menfollowed. The lieutenant was sent to the rear and I never saw him again. Iwas really down on the colonel. When I told him about the tank he said heknew one was there and forgot to tell us.74
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Chapter 1PrefaceThis collection con
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Chapter 2Ed ’s Early Memoriesby E
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Page 68 and 69: 4.12. BATTLE OF THE BULDGE Ed & Ray
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Page 78 and 79: 4.15. DÜSSELDORF Ed & Ray Hersman
Page 80 and 81: 4.16. ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE Ed & Ra
Page 82 and 83: 4.19. BROTHER RAY Ed & Ray Hersman
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Page 86 and 87: 4.22. END OF THE EUROPEAN WAREd & R
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Page 90 and 91: 5.1. BACK TO CLEVELAND Ed & Ray Her
Page 92 and 93: 5.3. GETTING MARRIED Ed & Ray Hersm
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Page 108 and 109: 8.4. COLD & CLOSE TO RUSSIA Ed & Ra
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