Episode 40: January 11th - 16th, 1945

Letters from U.S. Army Captain in Europe to his wife in Michigan. The trip was anything but an easy one -- the roads were in great part narrow one-way trails through thick fir woods and across swamps the shoulders were in deplorable condition, the snow concealing a multitude of pitfalls for the unwary, snow packed into ice-coated hills. This is going to be a short letter as I’m very tired.  I haven’t got much sleep in the last few nights. Today we heard the write up that the division got for Saint Vith.  At the end they said after five days the Division withdrew to a rest area.  Well honey the rest area was about ten miles back and we were in action just six hours after we left there.  Do you call that a rest area?