Company of heroes 2 german truck convoy1/29/2024 ![]() We were young and hungry so we ate whatever we had. We stopped in a couple of little towns that had cafes and some of us would heat the C-Rations on the manifold of the truck. K-rations and 10-in-ones had not arrived on the scene at that time. Our snacks consisted of cans of C rations. We would stop for 10 minutes every two hours for you know what and perhaps a snack. A road had been bulldozed through the rubble. Lo which the Americans had completely destroyed with bombs and artillery. We drove constantly for two plus weeks from Cherbourg to Versailles just outside Paris. As I remember, the training was to put two men in a truck with the order to follow the truck in front of you. I volunteered, one of the few times in my army career of 39 months active duty and seven years in the Reserves. It sounded a lot better to live in a dry truck rather than in a wet, muddy tent. He said the Army would train you to drive a truck. One day an officer showed up in our area and asked if anyone would volunteer to drive a truck on the Red Ball Express. Sleeping in a pup tent in the mud is interesting if not impossible. Sometimes French citizens would appear to see if the war had returned. One of our favorite pastimes was to take a case of German potato mashers (hand grenades) to the top of the pillbox, pull the cords and throw the grenades toward the beaches. There were many supplies left in the pillboxes. We stopped to examine many of the German fortifications overlooking the English Channel. The days were spent hiking through the small towns and the countryside along the coast. After the 102nd landed at Cherbourg, the first division to go to Europe without stopping in England, we pitched pup tents in muddy potato fields near Sainte Mere Eglise.
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