Henry Broski

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Excerpt from BATTERY

“I remember this Kraut soldier laying in the gutter with his hand shot off.  He was just screaming and moaning.  He kept saying, ‘Hande, hande!’  He was maybe seventeen, you know. I thought about going over and shooting him, but I couldn’t do it.” 

“Then, can you believe it, in the middle of all this mess I have to take a crap.  So I run up behind this house and there’s a privy in the yard.  I got in and when I was done I pulled up my drawers, but when I started to open the door a Kraut with a burp gun took a shot at me.  Brip, brip!  I tried to step out again and it happened again.  Brip, brip!  That Kraut had me trapped in the shithouse.  My friend Henry Broski is outside.  I yelled to him, some Kraut has me trapped in the privy!  He says, OK, swing that door one more time. So I did and, sping!  He got him.  He saved my life.”

By the end of the day the 508th’s 2nd Battalion was in control of Baupte, along with a vehicle park full of German trucks, munitions, gasoline, and rations.  Numerous Renault tanks were destroyed and the 100th Panzer Replacement Battalion ceased to exist as a fighting formation