"ArtKramr" wrote in message
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We fly two missions again today. No losses. The sky is once more full of
C-47's and parachutes as the 101st continues to be resupplied. The C-47's
will
fly over 5,000 missions before the battle is over. The men of the 101st
await
Xmas Eve deep down in their frozen foxholes clutching their K rations
which
will make up their dinner on xmas day. Here in the 344th BG we also have
our K
rations, And glad to have them. . Mechanics and ground crews will work
late
into the cold night preparing our planes for tomorrows mission. I fall
asleep
thinking about absent friends.

The door will close at Bastogne in the morning and the 82nd must hurry, if
they are to save the SS from a great slaughter.