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LOWELL YOUTH WOUNDED W-Year-OMTWICE IN ONE NIGHTPvt. William Hart, Victim of Nazi Shell Bursts, Saved by CaptainLOWELL—They brought Billy Hart into the aid station in the dark hours of the early morning. He was paralyzed, unconscious, a hmp lump of body, more dead than alive. The blood boiled out | of a head wound, wetting his hair, dampening his shirt and blouse; the left leg was shattered at the ankle, and the right was a mangled agony of flesh and bone, barely hanging on by tendons.The captain cursed savagely as he laid Billy down and he cursed again as he thought of the kids lying back there on the roadway m the grotesque patterns of violent death. And then he turned to do what he could for the kid whose life he had saved twice in two hours.For Billy the night was over,but it had only begun two hoursbefore, really, when the shell burst ripped him out of sleep—two short hours, but long in horror and pain and violence. The time was Sept. 18, 1944, and the place was Germany.Pvt. William Hart had comedown, off “Crucifixion Hill” thatday. He had been up there long enough to deserve a respite from the gruelling duty that had given the hill its grim name. He hadnit m r~i orlPvt. William HartHan Strickent LOWELL — Earl last night , Emery Lanoue, 80, of 140 Cabot I street suffered a heart attack on the corner of Merrimack and Aiken streets, where he was taken 1 into, a drug store and given first aid.'He was removed to St. Joseph's hospital in the city ambulance, where his condition was reported as fair at noon today.Yanks Open New OffensiveC«ntfuutil Fro**, Froot Pajteward in the teeth of a storm of' German mortar, machine gun and small arms fire. !On the opposite shoulder of the salient, other American troops put a squeeze on St. Vith in the concerted effort by the First anil Third armies to jolt the Germans back to the starting line of their winter offensive.the ground. He could see things, and hear things, but he couldn’t feel anything, nor could he speak. It was as though he was in a world apart, hearing and seeing and smelling what went on around him, without heinp- a nart nf itClosing in on the town which is the anchor point of the German penetration into Belgium, American columns had St. Vith two-thirds encircled from the north, west and southwest at distances ranging from six to eight miles.The Germans were fighting stub- lt;bornly against the persistent American effort to drive them back into their Siegfried line positions.
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Lowell Sun
Lowell, Massachusetts, US
Thu, Jan 18, 1945
Page 59
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