Easy company lost a lot of good men during this period. The city of Foy changed hands at least six times. The fighting in the coming weeks was harsh and brutal. They 501st PIR was east of the rail road line and the 502nd was west of the tracks. Looking out of their foxholes they saw an open field between them and slightly below them a force majeure in the German occupied town of Foy. Between the Railroad line and Foy they dug in during a gruesome cold winter with temperatures falling to minus 28 degrees Celsius (minus 19 Fahrenheit). On the morning of the 19th the 506 Parachute Infantry Regiment marched north and east from Bastogne towards the road from the town of Foy and Bizory in a place called Bois Jacques or Jack’s Forrest. On the night of 18 to 19 December the 101st Airborne Division was jammed into trucks and rushed into battle, destination Bastogne Belgium. Names of the Fallen ‘E’ Company – Bois Jaccques Monument for Easy Company – Jack’s Forrest – Foy Monument for Easy presented by Tom Hanks Foxhole of Easy Company in Jack’s Forrest The Battle of the Bulge, ‘E’ Company near Foy While they recovered and enjoyed leave in Paris, the Germans unleashed Operation Wacht am Rhein on the 16th of December in 1944. Easy was pulled out on the 28th of September towards Camp Mourmelon Le France, in Mourmelon France of course. In the aftermath Easy helped to get British soldiers back from Arnhem in rubber boats across the lower Rhine river during Operation Pegasus. They helped to keep Hells Highway open for the British armor to advance on the bridges on Nijmegen and Arnhem and with the liberation of the city of Eindhoven. But before they were in action during Market Garden and parachuted on the city of Son in the Netherlands on 17 September 1944. Monument for Easy Company near Bastogne Prelude to the Battle of the Bulgeĭuring the Battle of the Bulge Easy Company of the 101st Airborne Division dug in near the German occupied town of Foy in Jack’s Forrest.
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