[buckalfa]

Have been reading a WW2 history compiled from interviews with and local newspaper articles about veterans from a small southern Ohio county. Aside from the horrifying carnage of war, the suffering from the weather conditions these men endured during the winter of 44-45 in the Ardennes was unimaginable. My esteem of the town's people who served in that conflict has increased immeasurably. I am truly not worthy.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Memoirs of the operation described diarrhea-plagued GIs being rushed to the front on open trucks on Christmas Eve during one of the coldest winters ever experienced in Western Europe.

"The men in Belgium, I'm told, really suffered," Ogden said.