American Valor Quarterly Issue 11 - Fall 2014 | Page 13

entrenched Germans in the mountains.
But that wasn’t the cause of what
happened the fateful day my leg was
injured. We had been on an outpost.
A squad from each platoon was out in
front to be used as a listening post. We
had to stay out of sight in the day and
be available during the night. Where
we were, there were several squads
separated by a little bit of space.
The