The camp was right in the
middle of the ring of big German anti aircraft guns that circled
Nuremburg. One of these guns was in the woods just over the fence
from our barracks and the noise was terrific. We watched the smoke
rising from the city of Nuremburg those days and nights. When the
British bombed at night they dropped flares which lit up the entire
area and the searchlights that were probing the sky. We watched from
our windows and worried that a bomb meant for the railroad yards so
near us would fall on our camp. We had begun to dig trenches, but
they were only a couple of feel deep so we never used them. We were
more interested in just standing around and watching the planes go
over. We began to see more of our fighter planes flying down low and
one day a P-51 flew very slow1y over the middle of our camp, only a
hundred feet up. We could see the pilot and we all ran around waving
our arms and yelling at him to get out of here before he was shot
down. We began to hear rumors and sounds of battle again and were
told we would be moved. We didn't know where, but after the poor food
monotony and misery we had had for two months, we were glad to be
leaving this place. We didn't need to prepare for this march because
we had nothing but the clothes on our backs and blankets so were
ready to go any time.
Chapter 10 Second March
On April 4 we began marching to the southeast away from the
advancing Americans.
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