BAND OF BROTHERS EPISODE 6
Added 2025-01-19 10:45:50 +0000 UTC
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That’s incredibly sad. What an amazing woman.
Reacts and Games
2025-01-24 09:01:43 +0000 UTCBastogne....January 14, 1945. Easy Company was rushed into Bastogne to help hold the city during the Battle of the Bulge on December 19 1944.
Dave Meehan
2025-01-20 09:00:20 +0000 UTCThe nurse that roe knew from bastogne was a real person........In December 1944, Renée Lemaire returned to Bastogne to visit her parents, and was trapped when the Germans launched their Ardennes offensive on 16 December 1944...Along with nurse Augusta Chiwy, she volunteered at an aid station for the American 20th Armored Infantry Battalion on 21 December 1944... In a commendation request from battalion surgeon Jack T. Prior, Lemaire was described as "cheerfully accepted the Herculean task and worked without adequate rest or food...", that she "changed dressings, fed patients unable to feed themselves, gave out medications, bathed and made the patients more comfortable...", and "her very presence among those wounded men seem to be an inspiration to those whose morale had declined from prolonged suffering." On 24 December 1944, around 20:30, Germans bombed the building where the aid station was located. According to a column in a Belgian newspaper, the aid station in the basement of the Sarma Store on rue de Neufchateau was demolished. Lemaire managed to evacuate six soldiers from the burning building, but died while attempting to save a seventh wounded...Battalion surgeon Prior recovered her remains, and brought them back to her parents wrapped in a white parachute – a parachute she had insisted on recovering that very morning to make herself a wedding dress one day.
Dave Meehan
2025-01-20 08:54:42 +0000 UTC
