Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-01-15
By HAL BOYLE,

group Vi AuleTlcdn military ponce,
medics and artillery observers whom
the Germans murdered and left un-
buried.
1t was just another field Saturday
might to doughboys moving up. They
dug in and it wasn't until dawn that
hey learned they were sharing
Five Points with the victims of this
mass atrocity.
One dead man lies in a rigid pos
lure of agony with his outstretched
land reaching almost to the en-
rance of the foxhole dug by Pvt.
aerschel Nolen, 80, Durant, Okla, a
combat infantryman.
There are others around here still
Lying under the snow" said Pvt.
Nolen, who escaped death himself
only few hours ago when a shell
hit his foxhole and seriously wounded
his buddy He waved his hand
around at the field of silent dead
and said:
"If that is the way they want to
fight-then that's all right with us.
But let us fight that way, too"
'If the people back home could
see this, maybe they would stop
their pickering" said Pvt. Glenn l..
Hubbard, groceryman from Hanni-
bal, Mo-
yes, this is the kind of 'propa-
ganda' they ought to be shown"
said Sergt. James Warnock, 28-year-
old Bolton Is. c. textile worker
Maybe if the folks back home could
see a few things like this they
wouldn't be so sure the war was
nearly over"
Scene Is Described.
If the folks back home" could be
here, this is what they would see:
Scores of planes soaring the blue
sky with white vapor trails in intri-
cate and endless patterns.
A small country crossroads she'll
pitted and bordered by bare trees
with the gray bark ripped and
cleaning yellow from shell frag-
| ments.
A lone house to the right of the
crossroads standing Quilted and fire.
blackened, with no life inside It's
seared walls.
Along the road beside the house
the wreckage of more than a dozen
American Notwithstanding ambu-
lances, jeeps and trucks-shot up by
the German armored column last
month.
And Is yards on the other side
of the ruined farmhouse they would
see what was left of the American
soldiers who manned those We
hicles-soldiers who were first
stripped of their weapons, watches
and money and then lined up and
murdered.
Snow still hides many contorted
bodies Others lie face down or face
up, but most of them have their
hands appraised where death caught
them in an attitude Of surprise.
Faces Are Set.
The weeks beneath the snow have
given some faces set expression of
eternity, but some lie with the
mouth half opened as if in protest
! One soldier clutches his stomach.
The back of another soldiers head
is blown off. One medic with bull
lethole through his Red Cross arlet
lies starkly straight. Birds or small
animals have eaten out his eyes.
They have partly destroyed several
bodies.
A number of soldiers lie huddled
together as if for warmth The most
llfelike is one young red-faced boy
who lies on his back with a gloved
hand raised childlike to his eye, sas
If to ward off bullet or wipe away
tear.
Now German shells whine in and
land in the far corner of the field,
exploding in the snow with a muf-
fled crack. The live doughboys dive
into their log foxholes like
squirrels-and the dead doughboys
lie silent and motionless in the
snow.
The barrage lifts and down the
road from embattled Thirimont
come Is young German paratroop
prisoners marching with appraised
hands.
They are blond and expressionless
as snowmen-neither sad nor glad,
mad nor sorry.
Most of them are only about II
years old" said Pfc. Alex r. Bub,
Milwaukee, who is guarding them
with Pfc. Martin Chlebowski, Scott
dale, Pa.
Hate shows in the eyes of other
doughboys as these Is enemy SOL
diers march back to the safety,
good food and warmth available
behind the front.
THE way to do with them is the
| WAY they did with u.s. Saws Pvt