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By JANR BANGLEY
This Christmas season aa our nation celebrates the holiday in pence, the thoughts of many go back to a Christmas time of war 40 yean ago. During that Christmas, American twees were involved in one of the major struggles in the history of World War II; the Battle of the Bulge.
Several Rappahannock residents earved in the forces that snatched a Christinas victory in Belgium from the Germans, and gave a costly Christmas present to the United States. Two of those residents shared their memories of that time when they were for away from home fodng the Germans and the
Canon Johneon of SperryviQe was with the 17th Airborne Division, 193rd Older Infontry Regiment at the time of the Battle of the Bulge. Johnson’s division experienced its lint combat in the battle at Bastogne, and the division commander was General Bud Miley.
“At Bastogne, we walked into battle hi snow up to oar knees,” Johnson said. “It was the 20th of December, General Miley’s birthday, though none of us knew it, and oar birthday present for General MOey was a catastrophe. We got hurt-badly hist with companies down to 15 or 20 men, but we held our ground against a vicious armored counter-attack.”
Johnson's division fought off the attackers, but sustained heavy losses. He recalls that in order to regroup the division had to leave its position, and the roads wow fitted with other divisions. “We made oar way through snow, often times up to our waists,” Johnson said. “We encountered the enemy and mine fields, but we kept going and we kept up with the divisions on our flanks although they had the roads and we had none.”
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