Valenciennes

Valenciennes there was too damn hot. I only had two guys with me and we were holding what, 150 yards there. It was pretty galldarn hot with them Germans all around you. You didn’t know where they were. There was one, there was this sniper spotted us and he was up in about a three or four story building. I happened, his shots come pretty close there. And jeez, I kept out of sight then in there and told this other guy and had the other one closer way up at the end there watching and I was down on this other end. So I happened to spot this movement in this here window, so I took my helmet and put it over the side there, eased up and started just . . . when I put the helmet over there, he shot there . . . just come down close. It didn’t hit the helmet. It was darn close to it there. And I spotted him in this here window. So then I got my rifle, eased it up and I fired in this here window and I don’t know if I hit him or what the hell happened. I never had any more trouble with him. I don’t know if I hit him or not, but these here guys that come up when I was in this trench when I was right to the edge of it along where the railroad track runs, right along there. I went there and jeez, I spot five Heinie machine gunners coming up the track. One guy was carrying the machine gun over his shoulder so I told this here guy, I says, that was with me, I says, “I’m going to pick out this here machine gunner. Wait now, don’t fire till I do.” I said, “I’m gonna get the guy that’s carrying the machine gun. You get one of the others.” So when I fired, jeez, I hit him and knocked him and got a couple of others. He got one, this fellow got one. The other guy run across the track to the fence there, went through this goddamn fence. I don’t know if it was corn or some damn stuff growing. It was high anyway. He hid in there, I couldn’t see him. Bugger, he hid in there, he fired and fired at us, oh, all night there.