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unit left by way of Southhampton and went across the channel to Le Havre, France, and then we moved up through France and stopped outside of a small town alongside the road and waited for the orders to come down. And it was into this environment that we began to understand what war was all about because the weather was terrible. It had been raining, sleeting and cold and foggy. And yet we waited until finally they said, the orders came down and said that we were attached to General Patton's third army and our responsibility was to go to a place called Mantelange in Belgium. It was a small town where a bridge had been blown up either by us or by the enemy. But there was no bridge in Mantelange that would connect the main highway. And we had no idea what was going on at that time because no one had told us that in 1944 around this Christmas season that the Germans, in a desperate move trying to win the war, had sort of counterattacked and found a soft spot in the lines and then pushed us back and created a bulge. \n\n\n\nINTERVIEWER ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/collections/24/collection_resources/39332/file/110697#t=0.0,72.0"},{"id":"https://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/collections/24/collection_resources/39332/file/110697/transcript/24080/annotation/125","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":" This is the Battle of the Bulge. \n\n\n\nSUBJECT ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/collections/24/collection_resources/39332/file/110697#t=72.0,73.0"},{"id":"https://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/collections/24/collection_resources/39332/file/110697/transcript/24080/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":" And so that's it. We were in the Battle of the Bulge and didn't know it at the time. And here we are moving up in darkness in the blackout conditions up through Arlon, up to Mantelange. And we began to do what we were told to do, and that is to rebuild that bridge. And General Patton, who's third army we were attached to, was coming with the armored divisions, the guns, the tanks, the men. And all of that was necessary because above Mantelange, about so many kilometers, not many, there was a town called Bastogne. In Bastogne, I understand there was a division. I think it was 101st Airborne Division. \n\n\n\nINTERVIEWER ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/collections/24/collection_resources/39332/file/110697#t=73.0,116.0"},{"id":"https://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/collections/24/collection_resources/39332/file/110697/transcript/24080/annotation/127","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":" Airborne. 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And he came through and those soldiers went up and they really helped save those men. And it became my first experience with with death and dying. You see, up to this time, I had never seen anybody even shot or wounded. But here I saw the bodies on the grave registration trucks. I saw the bodies of people that I knew. And I remember another time I saw someone I didn't know. He happened to be white. He's about my age. And he was on the ground and his eyes were wide open. They were blue. He had blond hair and his hands were frozen above his body because the weather was so cold. He had been alongside the road for a while. And I looked down into those eyes and I realized that I could end up just like that. And that's when I began to question my wisdom for having joined the army. And I wanted to know why I was there. What the heck am I doing here when I can't get a drink of water, when I can't ride on a bus, when I can't eat in a restaurant. 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