Nathan J. Fullmer, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Luke Kelly, August 11, 2001: Saving the legacy tape no. 282

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athan J. ullm r guy a good officer. We got up in that village, and th y got th kitch n tru u ith h t now we're eating food off German china instead of out of the m it . throwing the dishes against the wall instead of washing them. And th n th PX rati 1 came up. You were supposed to get a candy bar and a package of cigarettes ev ry day. But they don't deliver every day, You know, they were not like Fed-Ex. So we got a week's supply after all this hot food. I got seven Clark bars. Do you know what a Clark bar is? I didn't until I was in the service. I was a Milky Way and Snickers guy, but these were Clark bars. They were very good. I made a conscious decision, and this was around noon. We still had to get to another village and cross another river. I thought there's no American Quartermaster guy that's going to take my Clark bars off my body. So I ate them all right then. The cigarettes I don't care about. I never did smoke, you know. Take the cigarettes, but not the Clark bars. A mistake. We finally got to the river, and there was a bridge there. And the Germans waited until our sister company-I believe it was Company B-was ready to cross and then blew it up. If they had blown it up the night before, you know, we could have avoided all this. But we were trying to take the bridge intact. There was enough left so you could crawl across it, and ultimately, we did. But our company, our platoon, had got reserve status by now because we had been beat up. And we were in a nice house across the river-warm, dry. Everybody else were eating their Clark bars, but mine are gone. I picked out a house a little ways down from the bridge because I didn't want 26