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Old 05-16-2018, 3:10pm   #18
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The 3rd Army WASN'T surrounded. Elements of the 3rd Army came to the relieve of Bastone, in the Battle of the Bulge. My Dad was in the 3rd Army as an infantryman in the 4th Armored Division and this Division did the mentioned relieve.

My Dad's small unit was pulled and reassigned to ??? for a short time ... it is in the description his (still alive) friend wrote about but I don't have that handy ... the unit they were assigned to were dug into foxholes in the snow and were overrun (albeit slowly, they had time to fall back) by the Germans.
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