Bastogne is over, Foy was a win for the Allies. Now Easy is waiting for their next mission. There was a lot of waiting during this time. There were a lot more rules and regulations. If you violated one of the rules, you were fined a good amount of money. They only got $50 a week, so more than one violation was costly.
NOVILLE
General Taylor is in charge of Easy Company. He thinks they should go out and fight the Germans some more. Winters was mad at this decision. Winters thinks that Easy had been through a lot. He knows it is the end of the war. It would be pointless for him and the men of Easy Company got killed now after all they have been through. Easy had to do many night marches and patrols because Taylor thought they should do it. Winters was unhappy, but he did it.
HAGUENAU
This is a very dangerous area next to the Rhine River. This was very dangerous. There were German Guns pointed right at them at all times of the day. This made movement during the day impossible without being shot at. They went out on night patrols to see what the Germans were up to. One night, they took a few German prisoners from a building. Very successful patrol.
Winters noticed that around the company, people were walking with more care, trying not to be killed now at the end of the war. They finally realized it would be real bad to have made it through hell, and then die at the end.
MOURMELON
Eisenhower decided to make the final jump in the war. It would be on the German side of the Rhine River. Easy was really anticipating this jump. It was Operation Varsity. When Easy heard that they would not be going, they felt left out and left behind.
They have been training a lot and not in real war. War amused them kind of. Sure they saw some bad things, but the destruction of another person's country was amusing. Kind of like Call of Duty for us today. It is entertaining.
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