Hi Guys!
Thank goodness this forum is here. I need to to go back to each entry and study it.
I have had a chance to speak again to Harold of the 303rd Regiment. I want to be sure that whatever I write is as accurate as it can be. Harold was in Company C. He said that he knew several of the B Co. men who went up to the top of the hill to the hospital/Abbey and they went up the back side. As of now, he does not remember these men ever mentioning that they found people up there.
Harold has a couple of hand drawn maps that he will copy and send me. I believe he said that it shows the 303rd Regt. and where they were to fight in Siegburg.
Harold and a lot of them went back to Europe as a group in 1995, 2000, and by 2005 the group dwindled and the same for 2010. In 1995 the Mayor of Siegburg met with them at breakfast. The first gentleman I found, Sam, has a copy of an article in, I guess the German paper, because the article he said is in German. The Mayor said, "I hope you do not think you were conquerors of Siegburg. You were the liberators of our country. I was a teenager. I had never had a good meal until you liberated the city and I have never been hungry since."
I did not get the name of the Mayor. When I visit Sam, I hope to photograph what he has including some Division and/or Regiment newsletters.
More to follow when I return from St. Louis trip to NARA, assuming I get to go.
Jean J