"We were pinned down by enemy fire and suddenly I hear someone hollering “Medic, Medic ”. I slipped thru a fence and some bushes, and ran across this open field.
There were four of our guys lying there, bullets hitting all around them, so I began working on one man, when suddenly I felt my legs go from underneath me. I was hit.
I tried to get up but got hit again in the back. The other three guys somehow got away, and I was now lying in this snow-covered field... the guy next to me dead.
Since I couldn’t stand up, I started crawling backwards, helping myself along with hands and elbows, but the lead kept slamming into me. I caught another bullet in my elbow and got hit in the heel too.
I realized that the Germans were using me for target practice. So, I played dead, for some long, very long minutes, God knows how long! I then started to move again and in the end I managed to reach the hedgerow. where I’d started from. We lost 13 men, and I wasn't able to save any of them" – PFC Patsy Passero, Item Co., 505th PIR, 82ND AB, Fosse, Belgium, Jan 3, 1945.
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