

By Jay Marquart
The sound of German artillery shells shrieking overhead from across the Siegfried Line was not the wakeup call Technical Sergeant Robert Walter of 3rd Platoon, L Company, 3rd Battalion, 393rd Infantry Regiment expected to receive on the morning of December 16, 1944.
He had experienced enemy shelling before. Since mid-November, when the 99th Infantry Division assumed responsibility for the sector of the Ardennes Forest previously manned by the 9th Infantry Division, Sergeant W
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These germansoldiers (pows) received better treatment than the black american soldiers after the war.
One is left to wonder if TSgt. Walter received a valor award for his actions during that period. Seems to me at least a Silver Star was in order. . . .