Never mind Dave. I found this on the internet. I'm going to drop this whole issue out of respect for this guy.
Walker directed the task force against a large enemy infantry force. He spotted a village on a high, mostly barren hill, and the task force pushed through to reach the town.
Hogan had already arrived there four hours earlier. Using their last fuel, the Americans moved their tanks, half-tracks, and artillery pieces to seven roads leading from town.
They then erected roadblocks.”
On December 23, 1944, pilots in unarmed C-47s attempted unsuccessfully to fly in supplies.
On December 24, three German officers appeared in half-tracks bearing a white flag.
They told Hogan that the Allied position was hopeless.
The men saluted when Hogan replied that he had been ordered to fight to the finish.
Lieutenant Harold L. W. Randall of White Cloud, Kansas, led an exploratory patrol.
On Christmas Day, the force was ordered to try to make a run for it. The men blackened their faces and removed their helmets to confuse enemy patrols.
They damaged their armored vehicles to make them useless to the enemy. Hogan’s men hiked over terrain so rugged that the Nazis had not thought it necessary to man the areas.
Finally, on December 26, all but twenty of the four hundred men returned in triumph.
read more about him here
http://www.battleofthebulgememories.be/ ... hogan.html
Looks like they are going to fight to the last man, so I better dig in for the night [;)]