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The book includes an account of the death of Capt Waldo Schmitt, who was a Co. A lieutenant when the outfit left here in. February.1941. Then It goes on Into 'The Winter Months'* and gives you this, among other things: ‘“The first man reported as having crossed the Roer in the 1st Battalion sector was Sergeant William Cannon of Company A, 29—Let's Go reports Sergeant Cannon's adventures as follows: ‘It was On 15 when he .reached the bank of the Roer on the night of December 1*2. The liauid sound £' of the slithering tide and the slick I crack of a rifle upstream broke the j hush of early morning. He stepped i down to the Roer‘s edge, removed , 3 ! his jacket, laid his rifle beside it. 1 ] r; He doffed his steel hat. put it j idown with his other equipment, f i - Then he slid skillfully into the riv- [ i i | er. \'e; j M *The frigid water brushed!r against his body but be was barely j 3 conscious of it. He pointed his j J whole being for the other bank, j lt;rswam out in silence. For him. na- j ii iture was no obstacle He touched ! the mud bottom on the east side of • the river in enemy territory- and j, waded out of the water. IJ“ This was no time for slow 11 calculating reconnaissance. He 51 climbed the eastern slope, made-his j; way through a few strands of \1 jageed barbed wire. He cameilI within ten yards of a German slit j1 = trench after he ascended to the 1 ■ . I crest. Swiftly he bounded off to a j -; row of houses lining the river 11 p , bank. Some kind of automatic !: _ i weapon loomed up In bis path. He i' | stopped, surveyed the terrain,;- ! ahead. His mission was comolet- j: !ed—he bad reviewed the east Roer : fortifications—had planted bis feetatop the enemy's earthworks. '“ 'He retraced his steos. saw two ,German? standing beside the slit;.^ * x • trench he had originally evaded, j- j He descended into the river, swam ; s , to the friendly shore.’-; The book says casualty reports ■ R \ were prepared and checked by j ; CWO John Martz. Sgt John Cole- ’ t, man and Pics. Lloyd Diller and- ' Harry Shoemaker, Recommenda-r i tions for awards and battlefield- * promotions were prepared by Capt. 'Kennth Moul. the regimental S-l. ‘and Staff Set Murray Fauocl and Technician 4 c Samuel Wenner. Cpl George McBride converted |1 and processed money for exchange •'; AH in all. this book is interest- j ~ ’ ing reading It is ? valuable, per- \ I, rr.anen* day-to-day record of the j '; activities of the men of the 115th;, , which will be cherished by many. ]* i
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The Frederick News Post
Frederick, Maryland, US
Wed, Mar 24, 1948
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