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Easy company soldier don malarkey5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() The 506th was spread out along about a five-hundred-yard front, meaning, with 150 or so men, we were already stretched thin. We were hunkered down in a dense forest that ran west to east between Foy and Bizory called the Bois Jacques. And the Germans apparently couldn’t see much more, given that a kraut wandered within shouting distance and crouched to take a crap. We heard bursts of machine-gun fire and an occasional whump of an 88 in the distance, but clearly the Germans were, at least for now, doing business with our buddies and not us. It was the kind of quiet you sensed would not last, even if it lulled you into thinking otherwise. ![]() Eerily quiet, the forest wrapped in fog, the trees like thick masts in Warrenton’s harbor on some November morning. Home » Military History » Easy Company Soldier Easy Company Soldier Posted on DecemBy Don Malarkey ![]()
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