IV 
114TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 141 
Providing official recognition of the massacre of 11 African-American soldiers 
of the 333rd Field Artillery Battalion of the United States Army who 
had been captured in Wereth, Belgium, during the Battle of the Bulge 
on December 17, 1944. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 6, 2016 
Mr. MCKINLEY (for himself and Mr. RUSH) submitted the following 
concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 
Providing official recognition of the massacre of 11 African- 
American soldiers of the 333rd Field Artillery Battalion 
of the United States Army who had been captured in 
Wereth, Belgium, during the Battle of the Bulge on 
December 17, 1944. 
Whereas, during the Battle of the Bulge in Belgium in De-
cember 1944, the 333rd Field Artillery Battalion, an Af-
rican-American unit, was among the units of the United 
States Army overrun in the initial German attack; 
Whereas eleven soldiers from different batteries of the 333rd 
Field Artillery Battalion escaped capture and tried to re-
turn to the American lines; 
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Whereas the eleven soldiers were Curtis Adams of South 
Carolina, Mager Bradley of Mississippi, George Davis, 
Jr. of Alabama, Thomas Forte of Mississippi, Robert 
Green of Georgia, James Leatherwood of Mississippi, Na-
thaniel Moss of Texas, George Motten of Texas, William 
Pritchett of Alabama, James Stewart of West Virginia, 
and Due Turner of Arkansas; 
Whereas, despite the bitter cold and snow, the soldiers walked 
10 miles to the town of Wereth, Belgium, where they re-
ceived shelter at the farmhouse of Mathias Langer, a 
resident of Wereth; 
Whereas the eleven soldiers were captured by a German pa-
trol composed of SS soldiers, who, after dark, marched 
the unarmed Americans to a nearby field and brutally 
massacred them; 
Whereas, in 1949, a subcommittee of the Committee on 
Armed Services of the Senate conducted an investigation 
in connection with massacres and other atrocities com-
mitted by German troops during the Battle of the Bulge; 
Whereas the report of the subcommittee identified 12 loca-
tions at which American Prisoners of War, Belgian civil-
ians, or both were murdered during the Battle of the 
Bulge; 
Whereas the massacre of the 11 African-American soldiers of 
the 333rd Field Artillery Battalion in Wereth was omit-
ted from the report, and the occurrence of this massacre 
remains unknown to the vast majority of Americans; and 
Whereas, in 2004, a permanent monument was dedicated in 
Wereth to the 11 African-American soldiers of the 333rd 
Field Artillery Battalion who lost their lives in Wereth 
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during the Battle of the Bulge to defeat fascism and de-
fend freedom: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
concurring), That Congress— 
(1) officially recognizes the dedicated service 
and ultimate sacrifice on behalf of the United States 
of the 11 African-American soldiers of the 333rd 
Field Artillery Battalion of the United States Army 
who were massacred in Wereth, Belgium, during the 
Battle of the Bulge on December 17, 1944; and 
(2) calls on the Committee on Armed Services 
of the Senate to correct the omission in the 1949 re-
port of its subcommittee and appropriately recognize 
the sacrifice and massacre of the Wereth 11. 
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