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by Lester Atwell

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Lester Atwell was not a volunteer for WWII, but at thirty-four was drafted into the 87 Infantry Division and arrived just in time for the "Battle of the Bulge". He was acutely uncomfortable, but his memoir of the period is quite useful to the serious student.. (

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Toward three-thirty that afternoon we got off the trucks, hoisted the duffel bags up onto our shoulders and started to trudge in a bent-over procession along a muddy, curving road approaching a group of widely scattered suburban houses in an outlying district of Metz.

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