Peipers Route at the battle for the bulge

... cont. Captain Robert N. Jewitt, Supply Officer of the 1111th Engineer Group headquarters in Trois Ponts started throwing shells across the road to Lieutenant Green, who passed them to another man who in turn handed them to the gun crew. The defenders clearly heard the detonation as their buddies in town blew two of the three bridges behind them effectively cutting tfiem off froom Trois Ponts. The 1111th Engineer Group commander. Colonel H. Wallis Anderson observing with binoculars from across the river, counted a total of nineteen tanks that came through the position and then turned right in the direction of Coo. Back at the anti-tank gun the German shells got closer and closer until one hit the base of the gun killing the gun crew. Their position now hopeless the remaining engineers piled into a halftrack and a 2.5ton truck and proceeded by their only escape route - the road to Stoumont. The sacrifice made by this anti-tank gun crew is commemorated on Marcel Ozer's monument on La rue du Vieux Chateau in Stavelot. Shortly after this action, between the tunnels, men of the Headquarters Company, 1st SS Panzer Recormaissance BattaUon murdered brothers Gustave and Oscar Job of Stavelot.

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... cont. Captain Robert N. Jewitt, Supply Officer of the 1111th Engineer Group headquarters in Trois Ponts started throwing shells across the road to Lieutenant Green, who passed them to another man who in turn handed them to the gun crew. The defenders clearly heard the detonation as their buddies in town blew two of the three bridges behind them effectively cutting tfiem off froom Trois Ponts. The 1111th Engineer Group commander. Colonel H. Wallis Anderson observing with binoculars from across the river, counted a total of nineteen tanks that came through the position and then turned right in the direction of Coo. Back at the anti-tank gun the German shells got closer and closer until one hit the base of the gun killing the gun crew. Their position now hopeless the remaining engineers piled into a halftrack and a 2.5ton truck and proceeded by their only escape route - the road to Stoumont. The sacrifice made by this anti-tank gun crew is commemorated on Marcel Ozer's monument on La rue du Vieux Chateau in Stavelot. Shortly after this action, between the tunnels, men of the Headquarters Company, 1st SS Panzer Recormaissance BattaUon murdered brothers Gustave and Oscar Job of Stavelot.

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Peipers Route at the battle for the bulge