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a Nazi major and captain stepped out. north, so uth and east. Every building They were tak.en to the commanding Jimmy ts leanng tomorrow morning and you wiU have jective of splitting the Allied 1st and 12th Army groups. over fields of their 6\ tcncd to conversaticms between com­ pff with his men. too, even though it was the worst possible ~ound troops died where they fl fantry Regiment, commande4 by COl. Bastogne. A courier hurried it back to f mands. They secured the locations of moment his para[roopers could be called on to do a job. on· the main Bonn·Pruem highway, and a combat com~ The part these men of the 9th An Robert Sink, Lexington, Ky., Wa5 split division CP and it was given to McAuliffe. every CP and each in turn was bombed They had jumped in Normandy and in Holland. In mand of the 9th Armored Division astride the second played in holding back. the enem)' and one battalion sent to Noville where The geueral slit open the envelope and main highway that runs e;lst-west throtlgh Bastogne. tbe lOlst could get into ?Ositio1 the combat command of the lOth and hit. l\\·all had a 500-pounder wipe the latter place the men had taken a severe seventy-three­ out his 53 sta ff. Another CP received a read the message: BY MICHAEL STERN day pounding and now. witn several thousand replace­ These units, each consisting of some fifty tanks, a battalion magnificent. · Annored was taking a heavy battering. "The fortune of war is changing. This At his command post in the b, All through the night the enemy sq uare hit frOm a 1.000-pounder and the ments. were resting _and re-equipping.. Just a short time of infantry, a company of enginers, ack-ack and tank de· wholt: <.ommaml was wiped out. For the time the USA forces in aod near Bastogne area McAuliffe, still not too cer- attacked with all his armor on the entire have been encircled by strong German before he had discussed it witft Maj. Gen. Maxwell Taylor strayers were depended on to keep the Germans out long fir ~ t time Jerry airplanes were out in *.* At the Western Front (By Cable) tain of the exact situation and front of his break.. At Neville, Neuffe armored units. More Gennan armored and they had decided that it would be impossible for the enough to give the IOlst a chance to get into position. getting news of heavy penetra· and Marvie he was thrown back, but to (o!t:e. The JU 88s made nightly raids At a.m. the 50 1St Parachute In£antiy Regiment, with units have crossed the ri\·er near Ortheu­ * The battle of Bastogr.e has been called the key of the I 0 I st to go in to com bat for some time. 2 tions of enemy armor from all the north and south of this semicircular, that dealt punishing blows. They would the 907th Glider Field_ Artillery Battalion attached, drop their flares and light the town in ville, have taken 1\!arche and reached bulge in which the last German hope for victory was To make it e~·en worse, the commanding general, Tay­ parts of the front, phoned Lieu· six-mile defense line his tanks and in· St. Hubert by passing through Hompres­ lor, was now in Washington; two regimental commanders pulled into the bivouac area northwest of the town. By tenant Colonel Ewall, command· fantry came through. Preparing for the an eerie glow. Then they could circle A Post correspondent tells the st shattered. ll ·has been claimed that the triumph of the back and di,·e through the flame-strealed, Sibret-Tillet-Librimom, all in German were in the United Kingdom on leave. Also the chief morning the rest of the units had pulled in. By morn.. ing the! 50 1st Parachute Infantry. worst, McAuliffe added to. the semicircle JOist Airborne Division, isolated and attacked \Vith mur­ geometric patterns o£ ack-ack fire. hands. fuel or surgery for the wounded, turne of staff had been dead a week and th< G I, Lt. CoL Ned ing, also, the full w~ight of the onslaught hit the two main When Ewall came in, McAuliffe facing·the front or protecting the rear. "There is only one possibility to save derous fury by a skilled enemy in a bitter ten-day struggle, said: "The situation at Longvilly In the north-south Laroche highway he l1as shonened the wa.r by months. Only the future verdict Moore. who had no tactical background, though a fme road>. The armor o£ the lOth on the Noville road block. the encircled USA troops from total an­ stood firm in its tracks although it took heavy losses. The is cloudy. Take your regiment put. a battalion of the 502nd Parachute The only thing McAuliffe yelled about nihilation: the honorable surrender of *********' of history can say hqw close to the truth this opinion comes. administrator. was filling in. It was into this. situation out there and attack. That'll clear Regiment, commanded by Lt. Col. Steve was the wounded. There was no ade- armor of the 9th at the road block just sou th of it fell the encircled town. In order to think I think his name was Alois, althoul But ·what we do kifow is that a single di\'ision, fighting that McAuliffe was thrust. it up." . Chappuis, spread in depth from (luate pla<.e to operate on them. The it over, a term of two hours will be back to Longvilly and left behind five medium tanks, Ewall bat an _or to Longchamps. Other units of this regi- Germans had taken most of the surgical against hopeless odds and in hOpeless circumstances. rose d1d~'t ~yelash granted beginning with the presentation you could find the best roast beef in Sa to stKh heights of courage that the liule, unknown Belgjan He is a slight, vital 46-year-<>ld West Point