My uncle Glen was there. He told more than once about the soldiers being so tired that they would huddle in a group of three and sleep standing up. I asked him why they didn't just lay down. They were afraid of freezing to death lying in the snow. In the forest, they would dig foxholes and they would cover the top with any logs or wooden slabs they could find to keep shrapnel and wood splinters from hitting them. The Krauts shelled the area one night and branches and shrapnel were coming down all around them. In the morning, he began clearing the cover from the foxhole and he found an 88mm shell. It was lying within an arms length of their hole but had failed to detonate.
