Eyewitness Recount
Bill Goudy, a Sergeant at the time of
the incident, wrote: "We had moved in during the night. In
the morning at daybreak, we found we were on the forward slope of the
hill and getting heavy artillery fire.
Sgt Glen Sommerville and
myself called our squad leaders in and told them to move the 81mm
mortars to the back side of the hill. We were in a large stone
barn. Stevie [Tetak] was the last man in for instructions.
A shell came through the
wall between Glen and myself. It exploded and blew the back wall
of the barn out. Steve was between us and got the full force of
it.
Glen Sommerville lost his
left arm, left eye and toes on his left foot. I had shrapnel in my
mouth, a boy of the name of [Edward] Potym had a broken leg from stone
falling on him.
The back wall covered
some men in fox holes. I think that they were from Batt Commo
[Battalion Communications]."
