GIs Leave Dillingen as Conquerors: Part 3.

Today we bring you the third (Part 1 and Part 2) and final installment of the World War II newspaper article, “GIs Leave Dillingen as Conquerors: Bought City with Bravery and Pain,” by Jimmie Cannon.

“DEAD PILE UP

“‘We caught more stuff in that town than we did since we came to France,’ said S/Sgt. Albert Van Oort, who comes from Inwood, Iowa. ‘But what we did to them was a picnic. Why, we killed so many of them the dead ones were piled up like cord wood.’

“They ate nothing but a third of a K-ration each day for four days. Thirst hurt their throats until they used an enemy water point.

“‘They’d get their water in the day time,’ Van Oort said. ‘At night we’d go down and stock up. It was pretty good water.’

“‘Six counter-attacks in one day Jerry threw at us,’ said Pfc. Commodore R. Vores, of Ventura, California. ‘We had one company across a tank ditch and they started working on them. But that old artillery of ours just zeroes in and whamo they blew those counter-attacks higher than an airplane. You never heard such screaming in your life.’”

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