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took a drink. I later found out that none of them Russians carried water around in their canteens—they all had Vodka,” Huff reported.
The Russian officers agreed to ride back to the American Command Post in Wurzen where news of the American-Russian link up was wired worldwide. Two days later, the four man patrol was summoned to General Eisenhower’s hideaway called the Little School House.
Huff recalled:
“We must have gone through 9 doors (all of them had guards) to get to the General’s office. We walked into the room and saluted and he saluted back. We got out the flag we used to signal the Russians which was only a sheet smeared with red and blue paint to look like stars and stripes. He saw that thing and he smiled. He said he wished only he had been there himself. Then he promoted all of us one grade on the spot, and said that only he could demote us. And he said not to worry about that.”
On May 8, 1945, about a week later, Germany surrendered.
Huff remained in uniform for a year more and was sent to England to salvage and catalogue Army surplus. He was discharged in May, 1946, and returned home to the Huff family farm which was located about a mile outside Washington. He and his older brother Tom had come home safely rom the war and both went to work again on the farm, raising cattle and growing corn, wheat, oats and harvesting apples from their small orchard.
Four years later, Frank decided he wanted to use the mechanical skills he had acquired in the Army and so he found a job at Merril’s Garage in Washington. He worked there for 23 years. After that, he got a job in Front Royal with the Amer
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