Taking Prisoners

[connie]

Floyd,

reference replies 1-3: 106thdivision.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=photos&action=display&thread=816

In a recent post you mentioned your company (424 G) capturing some German soldiers on the first day of the Bulge (December 16, 1944). You spoke as if this was not the first time your company captured enemy soldiers (or perhaps not the last...) Am I reading you correctly? I know the division took some POW's on the 15th. Any in your sector then?

Anything anyone knows about the process, locations, times, etc. when men of the 106th actually captured enemy combatants would be interesting...

Connie

[floydragsdale]

Hi Connie:

I know that there were German patrols the night before the B.O.B. began. A 39 man patrol was spotted in the G. Co. area. Yet, our men did not take any P.W. that evening.

I know that our Company also took prisoners at Ennal. I was made aware of that when I returned to G Co. after I was discharged from the Hospital.

All of us knew the importance of taking prisoners because just about all of them were willing to "talk."

Floyd