St. Dié-des-Vosges Captured
My Mother and Audie Murphy Ch. 52
The only photo on this page, of the shelled St. Die, was presumably taken by Flo. There is also a copy of the Third Division FrontLine newspaper which tells the story of a soldier from Seattle who killed several Nazis in hand-to-hand combat. Probably Oscar Amundson was someone she knew from her home state of Washington.
The FrontLine newspaper was started in World War II. Published weekly, it is still the official periodical for the Third Infantry Division.
Ch. 53: https://mollymartin.blog/2025/09/07/bloody-battle-at-colmar-pocket/
tradeswomn musings 
Unbelievable! Even though these Germans were the enemy at the time, I can’t imagine anyone doing what Amundsen did! It’s hard to condone such behavior, but it was either him or them at the time, I guess…..
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Minerva it reminds me of that scene in Saving Private Ryan where the soldier watches his buddy die in hand to hand combat, then kills the captured German.
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