For five days fighting from tree to tree in heavy fog they tried to get to the trapped men On the morning of October  they were just  yards from the survivors  but pinned to the steep slope by artillery and machinegun fire Finally they had had enough I Company and K Company rose to their feet and charged up the hillside hurling grenades into German machine gun nests and firing from the waist as they climbed I Company had started into the forest with  men just eight walked out unhurt K Company had begun with  men only  emerged on foot All the rest were dead or wounded or missing On November  General Dahlquist announced he wanted to review the nd to thank them for what they had done When the battered unit appeared Dahlquist grew irritated at their sparse numbers ignorant at how much they had sacrificedThe War FUBAR