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Charles Shepherd | K Company, 3rd Battalion, 121st Infantry Regiment, 8th Infantry Division - Army

5:38   |   Recovered from his wound, Charles Shepherd's first stop was the Fontainebleau Palace. He then rejoined his unit in the Hurtgen Forest, where the trees were devastated from the furious artillery barrages during the fighting there. They occupied a trench where they fought snow and ice more than Germans.

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