Ardennes (1b)

OPERATIONS IN THE ARDENNES
John Coates (Medic) said that he is the last man in this column. "This is Co C going from Holzheim. I was up front at first and they were afraid I would get picked off so they sent me to the rear. Only problem with that is the Krauts often let a group pass and took out the last few men." Whatever the case, John was wounded during the Bulge. (courtesy Phil Nordyke, appeared in "All American, All The Way")			508th Medics attend to a wounded man and prepare to move him onto a litter while other 508ers look on. All are unidentified
And some didn't make it A rifle embedded in the snow marks the spot of a fallen soldier	Marney Tillery (left) and other unidentified men display a German corpse. Marney's nephew Steve Tillery believes his uncle took a souvenir Luger from the German but since Marney himself became a casualty on 14 March 1945, the pistol's whereabouts is unknown. (courtesy Steve Tillery)
Heading Straight For The Krauts captioned "A remarkable picture of an Infantryman making a one-man sortie into a German strong point protected by barbed wire. Another solder in the background is covering his advance. Here is the type of fighting that takes guts! (This soldier is a member of the 82nd Airborne Division. The picture was made in Belgium on December 24th.)" This clipping was kept by Mabel Goudy and she wrote her husband's middle name, Brice (Hq 1st), on the newsprint. Whether she thought, or knew, that it was him or that it just reminded her of him is unknown However, on July 30, 2009, 508th veteran Sid Eells reported the photo "is of Walter Hughes of the 504 in the Bulge. I know Walter. Just talked to him in person this past week. (Image courtesy of Lois Andrews)		Charles D. Kent, Jr somewhere in the Ardennes. Note the heavily rutted road that is apparently frozen but at one time was a mud bog (courtesy Rex Combs collection) With Parachuters in Belgium Pvt David B. Rice, of Pelican lake, Wis., rifleman of the 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, helps Robert L. Keller, of Hartsville, Ind., into his pack as the men prepare to move up into action with the 82nd Airborne Division in Belgium --- (U.S. Army Signal Corps photo).
KING-SIZED NAZI TIGER TANK KAYOED BY YANKS. This supposedly impregnable German Tiger tank failed to stop the Americans counter-drive in Belgium. Knocked out by advancing Americans, it burns by the roadside as other Yanks re-enter the recaptured Belgian town of La Gleize. The now restored tank is a main feature of the La Gleize December44 Historical Museum