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Show WAYNE URSENBACH March 29,2004 And we went down, and we told the fellows. We said "We got what we wanted. We could the Germans actually moving around there. And, on the basis of the information we got we got some artillery fire in there, and that stopped them from pulling in an attack. But we had a fireplace in the building we were in. And we put the squash on the hearth of the fireplace until they baked. And we really enjoyed those apples. It was a great experience. FHM: Was that the first fresh fruit you'd had in a long time? WU: That was the first fresh fruit we'd had in over a month probably. We didn't get much fresh fruit in England. The other experience that I've always thought that somebody was kind of watching over us. We had in that particular-in that same town, we had an observation post just outside the town. It was a big hole. And during the daytime nobody manned it because the Germans, about every hour, would drop a mortar shell in it. But after dark they didn't. And, so, we went out there at dark, and we'd come through a shed, like a garage with an open door. And we'd wait there until such and such a time, and then we'd go up and occupy it. And I remember this one time we went up there, and the other fellow says, "Well, it's time, let's go." And I said, "Nope, let's not go. Let's wait." And we waited for about ten minutes, and then a mortar shell hit. And, so, after that we just went up and occupied it. But there were a lot of other experiences like that. One of the hardest things, I guess, to me all the way through was to see in that very, very cold country where crossing a stream-sometimes you'd have wade them, but most of the time they'd have a little wooden bridge that they put across-but you'd go across there. And then in an 28 |
