with them, trying to and the free trench,o french, trying to get back to my outfit and we could only travel at nighttime because there was germans in every hedge row, every ditch, and night was the only time we could travel. so when i got back to my unit, they had completed the mission that we were supposed to complete, and then we went on from there to kertan and liberated kerta in the and down to purple heart lane, and it was quite an experience for a 16-year-old lad, and you have to wise up real fast. if you don t, you will not survive. i will never forget the second day, when i shot my first german. i was just absolutely in tears, almost. he was an older person, and