Topic: Night Before XMas in Bastogne

[charlesoakwood]

Band of Brothers Nurse Augusta Chiwy - Someone You Should Know - The Night Before XMas in Bastogne

Posted By Blackfive • [December 23, 2011]

    "A black face in all that white snow was a pretty easy target. Those Germans must be terrible marksmen." - Augusta Chiwy on her surviving German shells and bullets while rescuing wounded Americans during the Battle of the Bulge

You probably don't know Augusta Chiwy.  She just didn't patch up paratroopers...she went out to the battlefield and got shot at picking up wounded troops on litters and shelled and bombed in her own hospital..

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[AlanS]

Awesome post, CO. Thanks for sharing.

[trapeze]

Compelling story. I always appreciate it when heroism is recognized while the people are still alive no matter how late it turns out to be.

[Libertas]

Incredible story...what people are forced to endure in the face of such horror and yet they cope and persevere to help others...not knowing what the next second may bring or if they will survive the ordeal or not...it is humbling, gut-wrenching and heroic all at the same time.

Great post CO.