Run. [WWII]

[**The following takes place as the American E Company is nearing Bastogne, where the fighting there would be part of the greater Battle of the Bulge, a massive German counterattack.**] >The columns marched on both sides of the road, toward the front; down the middle of the road came the defeated American troops, fleeing the front in disarray, moblike. Many had thrown away their rifles, their coats, all encumbrances. Some were in a panic, staggering, exhausted, shouting, “Run! Run! They’ll murder you! They’ll kill you! They’ve got everything, tanks, machine-guns, air power, everything!” >”They were just babbling,” [Winters](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Richard_Winters.jpeg) recalled. “It was pathetic. We felt ashamed.” ___________________________ **Source:** Ambrose, Stephen Edward. “Resting, Recovering, and Refitting.” *Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest*. New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2004. 176. Print. ___________________________ **Further Reading:** [Major Richard Davis "Dick" Winters](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Winters) [Siege of Bastogne](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Bastogne)