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Americans Save Belgian Village in Counteroffensive Clash
B Company of the 1st Battalion held a German-occupied Belgian village under heavy flak and fog with a captured Nazi half-track. Pfc. Russell Snow drove the 77 and aided by Pfc. Harold Kelly and Pfc. Harry Koprowski, they silenced flak guns, while Lt. Col. Harrison and C Company men attacked at dusk. A German spy ruse nearly succeeded against U.S. troops before eight enemy infiltrators were exposed, and the battalion ultimately retook the town with tanks and flak wagons destroyed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Karl von Rundstedt
Paris
von Rundstedt
Aachen
Antwerp
Belgium
Russell Snow
Burbank
Calif
Snow
Los Angeles
Chicago, Ill
Harry Koprowski
Erie
Thomas R. Holliday
Henderson, Ky
Ruland Hoover
Hobbs
N. Mex
Kelly
Koprowski
The
B Company
Cpl
Curtis Aydelott
Clarksville
Aydelott
Willard E. Harrison
San Diego
G Company
C Company
Frank Dietrich
Detroit
Mich
Dietrich
Edgar Lauritsen
Limestone
Maine
Theodore Watson
Watson
99Th
Sgt
Lauritsen
Division
Patton
Folies Bergere