A German patrol, on the prowl in Normandy, nabbed Private Anthony Blazus Jr., of Fredericksburg, Pa. and led him toward Roncey. There his captors joined a motorized column of the Nazi 17th SS Division, preparing to escape southward. Said Blazus:
"There was a German high officer standing in the road, giving directions to the column. He had red tabs and was a general of some kind but he was very drunk. All the other officers were running around giving him Hitler salutes.
"Then the planes came."
Fighters and fighter bombers of the U.S. Ninth Air Force swooped low, bombed the self-propelled guns, methodically blocked...
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