Posted by thurlow on December 16, 2013 at 07:22:07 from (74.177.51.31):
In Reply to: Breakthrough! posted by mb58 on December 16, 2013 at 06:22:16:
My dad was there; he always called it "The Ardennes Breakthrough"; don't know if the Battle of the Bulge was a media term or where it (the term) came from. The 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion, some of whom were massacred at Malmedy, was a newly arrived unit. It was activated at Camp Gruber, OK in '43 and was cadred by NCOs from my dad's unit, the 8th Field Artillery Observation Battalion. Just last week I printed (for my siblings/nieces/nephews) a large poster showing the 'track' the 8th FAOB (subordinate to the XIX Corp) took thru France, the "Low Countries" and Germany, participating in 5 major battles. Also.......just found out that all his (my dad's) letters to his mother....beginning in '42.....still exist, so have copied and put them into binder notebooks for family members. The 21-24 year old farm boy that the letters depict is not the man I knew.........
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