The Scared Infantry (Regiment of the Century, 1945)

We were men on a chess board being pushed around by people we never saw, by orders we never read, going to places we didn’t know the names of, not knowing where the front was… praying that the ‘old man’ knew what he was doing.


The passage above was found in a year book that told the tale of the 397th (U.S.) Infantry Regiment, of the 100th Division. The 100th Division was on the German’s tale all the way to Berlin.


Click here to read about the depth of suffering American soldiers had to endure during the Battle of the Bulge.

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