European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 15, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Memories. Continued from Page 11 we did t see a bar of  . Millroy said the soldiers tossed away their Gas masks and filled the containers with Candy and cigarettes. Quot they kept bringing them Back to us. We threw them away  of the 42 men in his platoon nearly All of them were killed wounded or captured. At a recent reunion in the states Millroy talked with a Man from the platoon. Quot he said he d made platoon sergeant. I said How d you do that he said i was the Only one left Quot combat is a horrible thing he said. When the bullets Start flying it seems everybody s time is up. Quot in the infantry in world War a 90 Days was an eternity. You can t live longer than  it is possible he said to get a Good Job like clerk and be in the rear. Quot but i la Tell you what if you be got a Browning automatic Rifle in your hand they la come looking for  on dec. 23, the fog that had covered the entire area listed and air support came to the Aid of the ground troops. Millroy and a buddy watched from a foxhole As heavy bombers pounded the germans while also taking hits from anti aircraft fire and German fighters. Millroy s mate watched this action and said Quot i m glad i m not up there. That s  Millroy recalled Quot i told him Why you crazy Bastard it s dangerous Down Here too. And tonight Well still be in this damned cold foxhole and they la be in a warm pub Quot on dec. 19, William Tumblin a member of the 1st in 393rd inf hitched a ride with a jeep Driver. Quot he gave me a shot of schnapps. The company commander later gave me a shot of schnapps. I was drunk. I had t eaten in three  at a reunion a few years ago a Man approached Tumblin and asked Quot do you remember me Quot Quot i said no. He said do you remember that foxhole that got a direct hit you dug me out Well i remember digging a Guy  Nick Machinis a self employed businessman from Erie pa., was a tech sergeant with b co 1st in of the 394th inf when the Battle began. He was taken prisoner the first Day. His captors took his uniform and boots. He and several others were marched through the Snow. In Mosheim the townspeople pelted them with snowballs. Before being captured Machinis s men had fought the 12 stripes Magazine november 15, 1990 a1 Nelson shows the Belt he received in the mail two years ago. A similar one helped save the life of a fellow Soldier in 1944. Robert Hogan raises the stars and stripes at a memorial near stave lot Belgium where 12 gis and three belgians were killed. German assault. A Bazooka fired at a tank hit a landmine advance5 Quot a 3 a amp cd tet that b,0cked the tank s h s captors forced him and the others to toss bodies of fallen soldiers into the Crater. Quot i think they were trying to fill the Crater up. They were doing it with their dead. And  Roger Foehringer an insurance agent in Elein Iii returned to Belgium with two sons Bill and Roger. Quot they have been involved in the Story of my life and i had some interesting things happen in my life Here. I was captured a couple Hundred Yards from Here Quot Many men met worse fates Here he said. Many died. Tj131 could have been me. There would have been no Bill. There would have been no Roger. There would have would he a in a a o May age have been no Beth there i Ana i Deret Reb a uld the Day before Foehringer took his sons to the spot where he was captured. P 1 Quot it was exactly like he described it Quot said Bill 38 Foehringer had moved out of the safety of a Lek when he heard German tanks were aps Bullinger. Armed with hand grenades he went Lut to meet them. Just As he reached a Hilltop a German tar loomed ahead of him. I made the highest High jump Ever made in Humar i flew Over the hedgerow on the left hand  he sought Refuge with buddies in the basement of nearby farmhouse but the German soldiers discover their hideout. As the americans walked out with their hands up a German Soldier spotted a Wristwatch g i6 Quot yes Rodier Lilly s Gold Elgin watch. Foehringer was captured but he escaped on april 1 rom a Edson Camp in Wurzburg Germany. Of and five others hid for three Days. They watched the is with american bombers and the landscape Light up i fires. They knew the War was nearing an end. On the third Day we were put into a Cave by a a Man family their sons brought us food. On the 7th of april they came running up in the c and said Amerikaner Kommeno Quot Foehringer and his buddies went into the town who they saw an american  the Hood of this jeep was an american sergeant the sergeant was dead  the liberating army he had expected to find was sin a Drunken sergeant who had acc Dently driven through the american lines. The escaped prisoners commandeered the jeep a ii f a it a it a #. % t $ f i $ Law amp to a my r i the sergeant with them Back toward the american from there they were sent to a Hospital in Paris. I Iti a. T0 death 1 did know where i i he army had picked me up and put me  men in his unit nicknamed him Quot Young  recalled trying to Cross a minefield. A usually they were methodical with their mines. You i it a pattern and you re Home free fio this  it a neral director in Myrtle Beach s.c., in t i j happened. He thinks a Quot bouncing Betty Quot land die were kimed6exploded histw0 eustion0&Quot 6s t0�k the a rape and my body took the Dot in t have a scratch but it was badly bruised in was evacuated. 1� Finch returned to Belgium in 1969 for the 25th Iver Sarnof the Battle. Ihrol of Corpe ack remind ourselves that we Are la radar we d trough and there is a Lerstang a?1on8 combat troops that a person can t and unless he s been  top . Millroy reminisces about his Days with the 99th in div. Right tour Leader William . Cavanagh. Above Mary Chaplin wife of bulge Veteran Jack Chaplin. November 15, 1990 stripes Magazine 13