BATTLE, the story of the bulge,
            by: John Toland; copyright © 1959 by Meridian Books, [the paperback edition]

"At 8:05 P.M. Major Don Boyer was still in position east of St. Vith. He heard heavy tanks creaking and clanking down the Schonberg road. Quickly he shifted machine gun and mortar fire to the road. Dark enemy forms running behind the tanks dropped or ran to the rear. Boyer figured if he could stop the infantry, someone else could take care of any tanks that punched through. He telephoned the forward observer of the 275th Armored Field artillery, Lt. Shanahan. "Mike" he cried, " give me all the fire you can on the Schonberg road from the main line of resistance east. In two minutes shells ripped overhead and exploded on the road. But German tanks kept coming through. Each gun and bazooka along the road had already been manned by several crews, no team lasted more than ten or fifteen minutes. As soon as one team of GIs was killed, another crawled into position. Boyer felt like an executioner and telephoned B Company. "Hold up replacing teams along the road. I won’t let your people pay the price any longer"

"Not far east of St. Vith, Baron von Manteuffel, impatient at the long liege, was exhorting his corps and division commanders to smash through the town and drive west. He had a grudging admiration for the unexpected fight the defenders of St. Vith were putting up. An artillery outfit (it was the 275^th) was doing a particularly damaging job. But the most troublesome unit, it seemed to him, was a group of British defending the eastern approaches."

Clarke of St. Vith, The Sergeants’ general,
           by: William Donohue Ellis and Col. Thomas J. Cunningham, Jr.
           copyright © 1974 by Dillon/Liederbach, Inc.

"God bless you, Clay! You’re all the artillery we’ve got. Head out the ridge east of town and support those two engineer companies dug in there. Look for a tall engineer lieutenant colonel Riggs."

"At dusk, however, the Krauts withdrew. The 7^th Armored had held. That is they held St. Vith; but throughout the night heavy German troop movement was heard to the front, including tanks and half tracks. The valiant 275^th Artillery fired into this noise several times throughout the night."

A Time for Trumpets
           by: Charles B. MacDonald;  copyright © 1985 by: Charles B. MacDonald
                 Published: William Morrow and Company, Inc. New York

"There were a few batteries of corps guns still on hand south of Vielsalm, and close be hind St. Vith was the 275^th Armored Field Artillery Battalion, so recently attached to the 7^th Armored Division. The commander, Colonel Clay, found General Clarke on the road near St. Vith and told him he was sick of retreating, "I want to shoot." Said Clay.

" So anxious was General von Manteuffel to get the drive going on St. Vith that even though he had lost all hope of mounting a major attack on December 20, he told Remer to use whatever he had on hand to get something moving quickly. Before daylight on the 20^th, a company each of infantry and tanks tried to move from Wallerode on St. Vith, but by that time the overall commander on the Prümerber, Colonel Fuller, had extended his line to cover that approach to St. Vith, and much of the 7^th Armored Division’s artillery had moved forward to positions close enough to augment the fires of the 275^th Armored Field Artillery Battalion. The probe got nowhere."

"At four o’clock, as dusk was approaching, the shelling lifted to command posts in the rear and to St. Vith, and Volksgrenadiers all along the line swarmed to the attack. Artillery of the 7^th Armored Division and of the 275^th Armored Field Artillery Battalion responded with alacrity. Germans fell left and right, yet others, constantly exhorted by their non-commissioned officers, continued to push forward. By the time night fell, small groups of Germans were behind the line, roaming in the rear, killing messengers, bringing command posts under fire."

"Men of the 23d Armored Infantry’s Company A got the word even later. Finally succeeding in making a field artillery radio function, Cpl. Harold Kemp contacted the 275^th Armored Field Artillery Battalion. "What are our orders?" asked Kemp. After a brief delay, the word came back: "Go west! Go west!"

"The juncture point for the defense of Combat Commands A and B, Rodt was weakly garrisoned by Service Company of the 48^th Armored Infantry Battalion. With strong support from the 275^th Armored Field Artillery Battalion, the Americans of that company nevertheless turned back one German battalion and allowed only a few men from the other to get into the fringe of the village. The battalion that was following the route taken earlier by the patrol bumped into the 48^th Armored Infantry’s vehicle park, where drivers and mechanics manned the .50-caliber machine guns on the half-tracks to turn the Germans back. Remer’s tanks nevertheless got behind the village. When they attacked, the few men of Service Company had no way to stop them."