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The tankers and ack-ack firing at our own bombers returning from a mission into Germany.
The road march from Kirchellin to Sudkirchen with each driver doing his own leading after waking up and finding no convoy ahead of him.
The blackout move from Sudkirchen to Delbruck with the first ten miles covered in twenty minutes.
The blackout drive back to Dorsten for gasoline and our first ride on the Autobahn.
Mann and 'Blackie' Martin's tour of Germany in search of Service Company.
The push back on the Ruhr Pocket with the first objective being Soest.
Our traveling in column by day and night with the line companies billeting now and then with German civilians while Service Company continued their habit of seeking spacious wheat fields for their billets.
Standing guard with Headquarters Company one night and Service Company the next.
Our ringside seat of the bombing of the German hospital in Werl by a German Jet-propelled plane.
Mann and Blackies' nonchalant drive past 'A' Company whose men were taking cover in ditches because of the enemy mortar fire landing around them. Of course they were not aware of what was happening.
The night at Gehrlinger when we were supposedly cut off by the enemy from both the front and the rear. If there were tiger
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tanks on the loose that night we never saw them.
The long, blackout, road march to Wolfenbuttel - winding roads, mountains, crater holes in the road, and treadway bridges. Sauer and Porter spent the night in a crater hole waiting for the Battalion Maintenance Crew to come along and pull them out.
Lockwood's leading of a convoy round and round and round through Braunschweig.
The move from Wolfenbuttel to Derenburg and our first talk with English liberated prisoners of war. Madden and Lockwood's blackout search for Service Company in Halberstadt.
Our trips to 'B' Company at Westerhausen where, although we were under constant enemy observation en-route, our vehicles wouldn't go over ten miles an hour up the long steep hills.
The havoc raised by the Air Corps on an enemy, horse-drawn, supply train between Blankenburg and Elbingerode in the Harz Mountains.
The joyous acclamation accorded the announcement of Hitler's death while we were at EIbingerode.
The quiet and indifferent acceptance of V-E Day while at Uslar.
Last but not least - the inevitable M. P. reply to a question; - 'I don't know. I just came on this post five minutes ago'.
We wish to thank any members of Service Company, not in our regular section, who helped make our task of servicing the Battalion easier for us. The cooperation of the Company Maintenance Section in this respect was greatly appreciated.
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