At this time the front line was just about at the Dutch and German border and within a couple of weeks we were in the town of Palenburg in Germany. From that time while in Germany we always stayed in hotels, hospitals, schools or some large building where we could be properly accommodated. It was in Palenburg that I came the closest ever to be hit by enemy fire. One day an ambulance from my old Company B came in with some casualties. Before the driver left I went out to talk to him. His ambulance was parked almost against the school building and we were standing between the school and the ambulance when a German plane came screaming alongside and sprayed the ambulance with gunfire less than three feet away. No one was hit.
It was here on our first day in Palenburg, Joe Forejt tried to jerk a table cloth from under a complete set of dinnerware from a dining room table, but my mentor disappointed me! We were alone when he made his attempt and his story and mine were not the same! But I never told anyone the truth!
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