Trail of the “Lonesome Polecat”
“We were up early that morning [March 16,
1944] about 0230. We caught the trucks for the mess hall and
ate the usual chow, two fried eggs, hot cereal, fruit juice
and coffee. Then on down to briefing where everyone was in a
hurry and buzzing around as usual.
When all were in and seated the S-2 Officer uncovered the map
all expected another trip to ‘Big B.’ Instead there was that
long black tape reaching from England all the way across Northern
France in the Southwestern part of Germany to the Target, ‘Augsburg,’
a Messerschmitt assembly plant."...
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