101空降师506团2营E连现存老兵

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有关索斯的：The night of January 9th, 1945, is rememberred by many of E-Company as a night in hell. Hell broke loose. “Lt. Shames sent me out to get ambulances, stretchers and jeeps. I was at the collecting station waiting to give directions to the jeeps and there was a lot of artillery fire; not aimed at us but at the woods. Suddenly one of the men of a tank outfit lighted a cigarette out in the open and within a second there was incoming artillery. I jumped into a hole on top of a couple of wounded men who started to scream. Foolish enough I got out of the hole again and an artillery round landed next to me. That’s when I got wounded.
The next moment I was looking to the broken ends of my legs. I laid there for at least a couple of hours. They evacuated me but they didn’t tie my legs down. As we came on an open field my legs started to bounce and they fell of the stretcher. They got me to an aid station and they put me on a kitchen table. The doctor came over en held my leg up. He took a pair of scissors and put some bandage on it, stuck it in the right side of my leg and it came out on the left side, I didn’t feel any pain. The doctor took a closer look and he said to me: “Well I’m not going to cut your leg off .” Until today I’m grateful for what he did. He saved my legs.” “When I woke up after surgery I was in a heated house, that was the first time since December 16th. That day was January 10th.”