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Original Item: One-of-a-kind. This story will make the hair on the back of you neck stand up. Technician Robert E. McVoy (ASN 32 857 418) was born on 20 April 1922 and joined the Army on 29 April 1943. He was assigned to the 106th Infantry Division. While out on reconnaissance in the small village of St. With during the Battle of the Bulge on December 17th, 1944 he was captured by a German Panzer unit. This is his story, in his own words, which were also recorded in 2015 by the New York State Military Museum and posted on YouTube as seen below:
Kari Ingersoll, a reporter with the Observer-Dispatch sat down with McVoy where he recounted his experience in his own words.
On Dec. 17, 1944, the first day of the Battle of the Bulge, two friends and I were put on Reconnaissance Patrol to find out what the Germans were doing. Due to the bad weather of snow and fog, reconnaissance planes could not do this — it had to be done on foot. While we were in the village of Saint Vith, German tanks began to come up the street, blowing up house by house. When they came to the house we were in, we ran out and were captured before they blew up…
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