A W E S O M E. Thank You.

My aunt, Eleanor Leverette was a young secretary at Camp McCain where the 94th Division trained. Also, as usual, lots of camp followers, including wives, rented out every space available around Duck Hill, Mississippi, including one just across a deep creek bed from Eleanor's parents small farm. An officers' wife had rented that abandoned house and he was there having a conjugal visit with her when he noticed a peeping tom. He grabbed his pistol and fired. There was no scream, and the peeper ran down into the deep creek bed, up the other side, climbed a fence, went diagonally through my grandparent big chicken yard, then climbed another fence and ran into the huge pasture beyond. Searchers followed the trail he left but it suddenly stopped near a blackberry thicket. Ten years later my dad took me through that thicket as a shortcut back to my grandparents house, but coming from the opposite direction the peeper had come. Dad found a skull with no jaws (you have three, two upper and one lower). WE brought it back. Years later I worked for a medical center teaching university and learned what a lafort fracture was. It is when all three jaws become separated from the skull, common in facial gunshot wounds and hitting the steering wheel in a car wreck At the same time, my aunt Eleanor and my grandmother let us video tape them remembering stories. It was during that session that Eleanor told the story about the Peeping tom, but her story stopped at the trackers losing the blood trail. Great video and one more comment. Across US Highway 51 which was the main highway from Chicago to New Orleans,, took a huge horse and cow plantation extablished by Mr. Gale Borden prior to WW1. On the same side of the highway where Camp McCain stood, Mr. Borden had built a Spanish style enclosed with doors stable for his many horses. It is very similar to the one you are showing here, but was a square and of course as I mentioned, in the Spanish style. There was a private railroad siding between the stables and the Illinois Central Railroad main line from Chicago to New Orleans. Because Camp McCain was just across the fence from the ICRR mainline, it is easy to consider that the US Army might have recquisitioned the stables. They seemed to have requisitioned everything else, including the "Duck Hill" a 500 foot tall round hill that rises up out of flatland near the town of Duck Hill, named after the big hill. The hill was located on the Southwest corner of the very large Camp McCain and the army improved an old wagon road so that jeeps could easily reach close to the top of the hill. It was used as an observation post. Lastly, as the 94th moved out, German POWs were moved in.

@94thinfantrydivision

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Terrific stories! Would be nice to research the McCain timeframe more thorough, as the 94th Infantry Division history does not expand on that too much. Thanks for your kind comment on the video. I will try to keep up the good work!

My Grandpa was in Company C of the 302nd I'm assuming he would have been there.

@94thinfantrydivision

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It is safe to presume he was there if he was with the 302nd Infantry in January through early February 1945. Pillingerhof was established specifically for 1/302nd, which means Companies A through D would have made use of it, plus Headquarters I presume. The old farm complex offers ample space. Would easily ge big enough to house several hundred men.

@kevind3185

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@@94thinfantrydivisionyour videos mean a lot to me. I often wonder what I would have done in my Grandpa's shoes. I'm not great with computers I'm having my sister email you a copy of Grandpa's Silver Star Citation.. Thank You Wim