Tis the season for winter vignettes and dios.
I am working on a dio right now trying to show the moment Major McCown of the 2/119 InfRegt realized he was surrounded in the woods north of the Stoumont/LaGleize road and had to throw in the towel.
He was captured along with his radioman and orderly. His testimony during the Malmedy trial gives us enormous insight into the workings of KG Peiper while they were surrounded in LaGleize and then during their foot escape.
The radioman so far. Searching my spares box I realized I had no walkie talkie so I had to scratch one.
Oh, boy, oh Boy,OH, BOY! More fun at JR Rutman’s Auxiliary Sewing Circle and Still Life Motion Picture Parlor! This little dude has a seat on the bus to the Photo Chop Shop
Try to imagine the smell of pinewoods mixed with cordite and the crackling a small arms in the near and far distance punctuated by rips of MG42 fire and staccato bursts of 30cal MG fire.
This scen tries in my humble way to show the moment Major Hal McCown decides discretion is the better part of valor and surrenders himself, his radioman and orderly to the counterattacking troops of the LAH north of Chateux Froid Cour in Belgium Dec’44.IMG_4363|666x500