Battle of the Bulge - 87th and 101st

[Walt's Daughter]

Here is John McAuliffe's (also of the 87th) reply to the excerpt:

 

Just a correction to Don Burgett's book regard the 87th Div. "never been in combat before".

 

The 87th Div relieved the 26th Div at Metz and went into combat there in Nov,'44 and then went into Germany in the Saar region against the Germans suffering severe casualties there. A 300 mile trek out of that region by way of Reims and into the southern shoulder of Bulge in rain, snow, sleet joined the newly arrived 17th Airborne Div and the 11th ARMD DIV to face the Panzer Lehr and 276 Volksgrenadier Div. blocking the German supply lanes from St. Hubert to Bastogne. The 87th was not exactly "green"......as Burgett mentioned....

Thanks, Marion

Mac..