On 9th September 1944 troops of the 3rd U.S. Armored Division liberated the Belgian town of Verviers. A couple of days later an M.P. named Jimmy Savignano from Schenectady New York knocked at my mother’s door and offered her a job as an interpreter for Major Alan Brown at the Civil Affairs office in the Credit Anversois building in Verviers, Belgium. She worked at C2G1 and later at 3rd Army in Metz, France.

In my mother’s wardrobe hung a jacket she’d made during her time at C2G1. This jacket is what stimulated my interest in the young men who liberated eastern Belgium and fought in the Battle of the Bulge.